Altus Learning Systems has introduced Version 5.0 of its Xtreme Knowledge Sharing platform (XKS 5.0). The company reports the new offering incorporates community enablement capabilities, such as enterprise collaboration, searchable video technology, blogs, wikis and other enterprise social networking functions.

Altus says the benefits of XKS 5.0 include:

• capturing the best social networking features such as searchable video, podcasts, blogs, wikis and RSS feeds, bringing those capabilities inside the enterprise to facilitate collaboration, knowledge sharing and on-demand information management;
• sophisticated video synching and search;
• the creation of video learning portals to share the corporate knowledge captured from video training, meetings, conferences, PowerPoint presentations, etc.; and
• features such as Custom Content Builder, Top 10 Presentations Repository, Community Ratings and Comments, and Architecture Tools, which allow employees to create their own personal home page in the knowledge portal.