The Enterprise Edition of Community Server is designed for high volume communities where performance and up-time are critical. The Enterprise Edition has no limitations on the number of forums, blogs, photos, and files and includes all the Enterprise add-ons.
Here's a full features list:
- Ready-to-use Applications Our built-in applications serve as a proven foundation that reduces development efforts and can be dynamically configured to meet your needs.
- Blogs From public to private Web logs, our enterprise blogging application is multi-faceted, easily supporting thousands of blogs and growing according to your needs.
- Forums Community Server 2008 forums enable interactive collaboration between individuals and the community. The enhanced forum user interface includes a directory style display that brings active conversations to the top, making it easier to follow a variety of discussions.
- Rich Media & Video Community Server 2008 media galleries are a core application that displays multiple types of files, images and videos in a more meaningful way. You can effortlessly integrate video from third-party services such as Flickr and YouTube, and with ratings and tagging functionality, users can express their opinions and sort media for relevancy.
- Robust User Profiles Community Server 2008 provides full-featured user profiles that include activity lists, a ‘wall’ where other users can post notes to you, and an announcements ‘blog.’ The new functionality makes the user profile a focal point of the community experience.
- Groups Now you can create micro-communities within your site! These groups become your own social circle and allow the members of that circle to have exclusive access to group-specific media galleries, blogs and messaging.
- Messaging & Social Streams Send an instant message to a friend, an individual in the community, or to the entire group. You can even “micro-blog”! The private messaging feature is its own application in CS2008, making it easy for users to communicate with individuals and with the community at large (including their friends).
- Detailed Community Reporting & Analysis Business intelligence is now associated with your community! Utilizing our new Harvest™ Reporting Server Suite, Community Server interactive data reporting helps you define the ROI for your social network. Create your own reports, or have our Client Services team design and configure additional custom reports to help you identify your community influencers.
- Widgets CS2008 ships with pre-built widgets and comes enabled with many dynamic widgets capabilities. Now you can quickly and easily write your own widgets or import them from other sources, including Google Gadgets, SpringWidgets, and WidgetBox! Use them to leverage outside data, to call a custom Web service, or to reuse an RSS feed. It’s your choice!
- Integrated Ratings & Comments Allows users to comment on group posts and encourages collaboration across the organization.
- Discoverability of Content (RSS, Tags)Leverage the accessibility of your content with this extensive search capability. With the help of tag clouds, this application helps to bring the most relevant content to your community.
- Optimized Control Panel The control panel gives the community managers the tools necessary to easily manage each application. The CS2008 control panel is streamlined to simplify common tasks with a new user interface, more efficient workflow, and task isolation.
- Ease of Content Creation Community Server offers easy-to-use content management tools that allow you to organize content easily and reduce your management costs. With a WYSIWYG editor, neither technical skills nor developers are required to publish content or to make edits.
- Extensibility with Web Services In the 2008 release, this full-feature Web services (REST) API gives remote access to all Community Server data (i.e., posts, users, settings), which allows for easier extension of the platform and interoperability with external applications.
- Flexible UI Easily integrate your brand across your community with our flexible user interface. Engage users with a consistent look and feel, or even localize your content!
- Localization of Content The Community Server architecture is international friendly and gives you the option to publish sites in languages other than English.
- Rich Security & Permissions Model Our powerful permissions model allows you to manage the role vs. the user, and our security application empowers you to determine how visitors will access your content.
- Scalability
Microsoft SharePoint and Intranet Support Community Server 2008 adds support for Microsoft SharePoint integration. Coupled with Active Directory support and Exchange integration, Community Server can add social functionality to your Intrantet, too.
Who uses the Community Server Enterprise Edition?
- MySpace.com
- Microsoft
- Electronic Arts
- National Football League
- Many more recognized global brands!
Technical Details for Enterprise Edition
- Built to support up to 10 million page views / month (per-server)
- Easily supports up to 100,000 site members (about $0.01/user)
- Search supports virtually unlimited documents (blog posts, forum posts, etc.)
- Unlimited blogs, forums, files
- Optimized for clustered Web server farms
Included Enterprise Capabilities
Enterprise Search
- Enables high performance search (required for sites managing > 150,000 blog or forum posts) for large sites
- Enables RSS subscriptions for search results
Enterprise Mail Gateway Server
- Enables sending emails to post/reply in forums
- Enables sending emails to post in blogs.
Enterprise RSS Syndication & Job Server
- Enables RSS content to be served on distributed servers
- Enables distributed background task management for Community Server tasks (example, sending email).
