Truly collaborative KM

Open Text reports it offers significant enhancements in its scalable collaborative commerce and knowledge management application.

They include:

• advanced search and retrieval, with natural language query, content-only search, multiple search templates, hit highlighting, “find similar” and result themes;

• personalized user profiles add support for photos, Web sites and interests;

• XML import, which allows data to be moved quickly between Livelink systems; and

• additional collaborative features, including online polling, milestone tracking and separate user group domains for online projects, extranets and joint ventures.

  Open Text also introduces Livelink support for Microsoft’s WebDAV (Web-based distributed authoring and versioning). Described as a set of enhancements to the HTTP protocol, WebDAV allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files stored on remote Web servers, such as Livelink, as easily as if they were stored on a local file server, says Open Text. Using Livelink WebDAV Server, users can create, move, copy and delete documents and folders, as well as check out documents and view Livelink folder contents directly from desktop applications such as Microsoft webFolders, Office, Adobe Acrobat and more.