Community Server Evolution is a software solution that accelerates user collaboration and information efficiency while making it easy for global organizations to retain, recall, and share their corporate intelligence. It combines social computing features into a single platform, empowering intranet users to generate content, share knowledge and resurface valuable communication in real time, across boundaries
Evolve Your Intranet
Community Server Evolution brings enterprise-grade social software to your intranet enabling organizations to significantly improve collaboration and information efficiency. Community Server Evolution leverages enterprise IT investments such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Exchange, and Active Directory, to fulfill the promise and power of Enterprise 2.0
Connect and Empower Employees
With Evolution, employees and management are able to source people, expertise, and embedded company knowledge, allowing users to quickly form groups and communities of interest for managing projects, collaborating on critical topics of discussion, and developing repositories for shared knowledge and institutional intelligence. Corporate knowledge sharing has now evolved! In the Evolution enterprise, coworkers communicate, share knowledge, and manage data in a central location with 360- degree visibility of team member activities, discussions and documents. This cohesiveness creates efficiencies of connection, communication and collaboration, which enables the team to work smarter, not harder
Organize and Enable Groups and Projects
Each Evolution group has its own suite of collaboration tools (blogs, wikis, forums, etc.) to enable ease of content creation, content editing, discussion, and file management within that particular group. To help break the boundaries of one-to-one email chains, Evolution enables one-to-many group messaging and discussions that are visible and accessible to the group along with private, direct messaging between group members. Discussion and group messaging is available everywhere by utilizing robust Microsoft Exchange integration. Evolution provides project teams with a full view and understanding of coworkers and project activities, including discussions, comments, connections and data. These visible activities keep users informed and in tune with projects and team members.
Evolution Facts:
- Rich user profiles surface individual expertise, experience and activity.
- Micro-communities enable dynamic collaboration.
- Web 2.0 tools, such as RSS and blogs enhance publishing.
- Social documentation with wikis for iterative content publishing and collaboration.
- Rich media galleries available for publishing and sharing videos.
- Messaging tools to better connect individuals.
Extend and Integrate
Community Server Evolution’s full-featured (REST) API gives developers and systems integrators content and user data which that allows for easier extension of the platform and interoperability with external applications.
Manage Knowledge
Forums and discussions in Community Server Evolution take on added value with full question and answer tracking. Evolution users are empowered to participate in these discussions through multiple channels by utilizing their everyday communications tools. And with Community Server Evolution, the discussions and comments are captured, stored, tagged and indexed for easy search and discovery! Capture input, answers and discussion to enhance corporate knowledge and support.
Measure and Report
Telligent Harvest Reporting Server is integrated with Community Server Evolution provide detailed business intelligence around your internal community and help you understand the ebb and flow of activity: what’s working, what’s not, and what to focus on. Make informed decisions based on measurable data.
Leverage IT Investment
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Investments in platforms such as SharePoint are supported through single sign-on and custom WebParts along with deep support for SharePoint management of these new capabilities. Evolution also provides key integration points that allow consistent corporate branding of the user interface. Evolution integration enables SharePoint users to interact with Evolution blogs allowing the user to view blog content and read, comment on, and post content. Evolution’s built-in support for rich media, moderation tools, roles, and permissions, and more take SharePoint blogging to a whole new level! Along with synchronization of documents between Evolution media galleries and SharePoint document libraries, SharePoint users benefit from Evolution message boards with full support for read, reply, and posting. Active Directory integration and Enterprise LDAP compatibility provide single sign-on for a better user experience. The bidirectional profile management reduces IT staff time and allows users to quickly build groups and communities of interest.
