OutStart announced v2007 of OutStart Participate. Bringing together Web 2.0 technologies, v2007 enables workers to move to a more collaborative, community-based environment that delivers relevant, accurate knowledge without requiring employees to step out of their every day job functions.
Knowledge changes so rapidly, and is distributed so broadly that traditional approaches for dealing with it are no longer sufficient. Web 2.0 capabilities enable workers to network, collaborate, and create knowledge, but without proper integration, they pose a knowledge sharing challenge. Participate ties together its 'channels' so that knowledge shared once, regardless of its origin, is captured and made available across the entire system -- eliminating the individual knowledge silos created when Web 2.0, or any technologies are deployed separately.
Participate v2007 is an integrated suite of capabilities including communities, expertise exchanges, Wikis, private messaging, and expert events. It encourages social networking interactions that connect people (experts and peers) and allows them to easily share knowledge, collaborate to create new knowledge, organically capture knowledge -- turning ad hoc communications into re-usable knowledge, and enables broad, simple knowledge contribution. Additionally, Participate fits into users' daily work routines as knowledge can be shared and contributed using every day tools such as MS Outlook and Word.
"We are a training services provider whose charter is to help IT organisations drive innovation, productivity, and effectiveness at all levels," said George Cohlmia, CEO, Leaderquest. "Increasingly, IT workers need "at your fingertips" knowledge - the kind that comes from quick, relevant answers in seconds or minutes rather than hours or days. Outstart Participate is the ideal solution for enabling this kind of rapid knowledge transfer."
"With the support of a broad range of dedicated, visionary customers, many years of practical experience and technological innovation, we've enhanced Participate v2007 to keep it at the leading edge of the emerging collaboration and social software market.," said Massood Zarrabian, CEO and president of OutStart. "As always, we thank our customers for their on-going support."
Availability
OutStart Participate V2007 is immediately available and can be deployed in either a hosted or enterprise model with flexible pricing to meet a wide variety of customer requirements. OutStart Collaborative KM capabilities are also available in two OutStart on-demand solutions: OutStart TrainingEdge.com and OutStart SellingEdge.com.
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