Locus IT for SharePoint complements your existing SharePoint portal by adding an integrated set of tools and capabilities that extend the value of your enterprise information. It allows your organization to harness the value of knowledge communities, better leverage subject matter expertise and facilitate tighter collaboration. And with tools for implementing expertise profiles and communities of practice (CoP's), Locus IT for SharePoint's knowledge management discipline enhances the value of your SharePoint collaboration environment...all from within the SharePoint interface itself.

Where Are the Breaks in Your Information Value Chain?

If you can't leverage your organization's information, you can't monetize it. Capturing valuable information from expert internal sources, housing it in a structure that allows for relevance-based access and having the ability to apply it to discrete problems makes that information truly actionable-not simply a collection of data. And it helps your knowledge workers and teams collaborate and execute.

Numerous Team Sites creating knowledge silos?

Locus IT CoP's create a focal point where people with similar interests and disciplines can share knowledge and collaborate outside of Team Site boundaries.

When linked with feeds, your CoP's enable efficient knowledge sharing and re-use across multiple Team Sites.

Information structure making it difficult to locate and apply the right expertise to specific problems?

Locus IT's Structured Q & A makes information actionable. It's a sophisticated approach that solves business-critical problems by leveraging relevant expertise and knowledge across the organization and linking it to existing business processes and workflows. This reduces time spent on searching and browsing within SharePoint.

Locus IT's Expertise Location and Advanced Search employs a federated and natural-language search engine to enable users to find the right expertise for a given problem. This allows for faster problem solving through information re-use and the appropriate leveraging of the right expert knowledge.

Locus IT for SharePoint also enables you to capture the ratings and ROI of specific knowledge exchanges.

Low adoption of the platform limiting it's value?

Locus IT's comprehensive analytics provide a real-time view of usage patterns, adoption rates and information flows, to allow you to pinpoint adoption challenges and document ROI.

MySite profiles lack expertise profile templates and are cumbersome to keep current?

Locus IT extends MySite profiles with profile templates that provide several additional profile attributes, such as technical competency, areas of expertise, training level, related patents, etc. This not only gets users to the right expertise when they need it, but it also lets you capture tacit knowledge from your best experts in order to more easily train new knowledge workers.

Auto Profiling dynamically creates an inferred expertise profile from the use patterns and contributed content of users.

SharePoint not helping to identify, capture and share best practices?

Locus IT provides easy-to-use tools for users to streamline processes for areas such as nomination of discussions and documentation of ideas, knowledge content and expertise as shared best practices.

Can't easily integrate infrastructure such as email, portals, directories and line-of-business applications?

Business Rules & Workflow integration enables organizations to transform knowledge flows and implement rules such as approvals for sensitive information, automatic escalation, notifications, etc.

Can't document ROI associated with knowledge sharing across projects and initiatives?

Locus IT for SharePoint includes a comprehensive suite of analytics that enable your organization to monitor usage/value delivered, and manage system and user settings.