The Community Server features list includes much more than enterprise blogs, an Intranet option, business intelligence tools, widgets, and social circles.

Enterprise Knowledge Management

Managing knowledge within an organization is a constant challenge. Community Server can help facilitate knowledge retention through its Integrated Mail Server, which enables the forums application to be used like an email discussion list. (The Integrated Mail Server can also be easily integrated with existing email distribution lists, such as those found in Microsoft Exchange Server). Once these email streams are in Community Server, they are immediately available for search, ratings and, RSS subscriptions. Most importantly, they ensure that the data continues to be available long after the email discussion is over.

Instantaneous ROI

Community Server’s return on investment is immediate. Whether reducing support costs, increasing customer satisfaction through better communication, or building a network of community experts, Community Server can help your organization retain and share more of the valuable knowledge you or your customers create

Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server Integration 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 Intranet, too!

Get The Most Bang For Your Buck

From a cost standpoint, adding Community Server is the most effective and low cost way to increase the traffic to your site. Sources such as Google ads work great for pulling in interested customers, but social networking tools almost guarantee that your site's traffic will increase exponentially.

Search Rank That Would Make Google Proud

Research shows that quality search results lead to improved sales. With that in mind, every new release of the Community Server platform includes more improvements for optimizing content for search engines such as Google. Our clients routinely report back a large increase in traffic to their site after adding Community Server applications to their existing Web sites.

No Reconstructive Surgery Required

Yes, Community Server is a social software platform, but we’ve taken the time to design it so that you can easily add the robust applications to any existing site—including sites that use authentication—with our Single Sign-On (SSO) modules.

We’re Geeks So You Don’t Have To Be!

We've made Community Server very simple and easy to use. In fact, you don’t need to even know HTML in order to publish content with our rich text editor. You just have to know how to type . . . much like you would when authoring a document in Microsoft Word.

Other reasons to fall in love with our proven social networking platform:

• Built-in Community Server applications (blogs, forums, photo, file, and media galleries, optimized control panel, groups, etc.)
• The ability to integrate with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Extensible platform can be scaled to support the most demanding social media communities like MySpace and Microsoft
• Battle-tested platform is optimized for increased levels of load (see MySpace showcase)
• Ability to stream video, rich media & video capabilities (see EA skate showcase)
• No limit on the number of community members
• Includes source code to the Community Server core
• 3 Authentication Types (Windows AD, ASP.NET Forms, Cookies)
• Designed to run in clustered Web server environments
• Rich security & permissions model based on industry-leading best practices
• Localization capability (see Microsoft SQL CAT showcase)
• Flexible UI to maintain brand fidelity (see EA Dead Space showcase)
• Simple user interface with theme-driven customization
• Robust forums system that can additionally integrate with email discussion lists and news servers
• Publishing system that can manage thousands of single and multi-user blogs (see MSNBC showcase)
• Easy file and photo sharing integrated with forums and blogs
• Robust user profiles, groups, messaging, and social streams
• Content mirroring to enable content syndication and republishing (see Pregame.com showcase)
• Integrated search across blogs, forums, photos, and files in one consistent UI
• Powerful control panel with consistent tools for managing your community
• Widgets, integrated ratings & comments, and discoverability of content (see Intel showcase)
• Detailed community reporting & analysis, associating business intelligence

With a major release every 9-10 months and a team of almost 100 people supporting the Community Server platform, you can rest assured that our enterprise social software will continue to evolve and grow as the market demands. 

Conversations about your products happen every day with or without you. We’re just here to help you participate in those ongoing discussions.

Ready to start collaborating? Get Community Server TODAY!