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Knowledge Werx is the full utilization of information and data, coupled with the potential of people’s skills, competencies, ideas, intuitions, commitments and motivations.

Our collaborative tools bring the most appropriate people and resources in the organization together to enhance collaboration and coordination across projects and processes. By automatically discovering opportunities for collaboration across the organization, each user has a global view of relevant resources and activity.

This helps everyone in your organization to find, coordinate work, and share information with the right people, everyday.

Product Architecture

Knowledge Werx is built on open standards like J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition), XML (Extensible Markup Language) and a MVC (Mode-View-Controller) framework. Thus, it is not meant to be a product that will lock-in the user to any proprietary format. Due to the adoption of open standards, Knowledge Werx easily integrates with other existing products that the organization currently may have.

Knowledge Werx is quickly to deploy and its intuitive interface will allows users to be productively quickly.

Manage Explicit Knowledge

Knowledge Werx allows for the search of explicit knowledge in the form of documents and other electronic information through the integration with Search Werx.

Key Features

Community of Practice (CoP)	Create Communities of Practices(CoP) that would allow ideas to flow freely in a trusted environment. Only invited participants may contribute and read from these communities. Post articles and documents for your CoP to view. When certain domains merge, an authorized user can merge CoPs together, so as to have a wider range of knowledge sharing.
Shared Calendar	CoP also allowed a shared calendar for collaborative work. Post content into the shared calendar and allow users in your community to be updated of upcoming events.
Task Delegation and Monitoring	Task can be delegated within the CoP to different users and allows the users to update the progress of these tasks.
Forums	Groups represent a collection of users. Roles represent permissions that a group or user can be bound to. Access to portlets is also restricted to users based on roles.
Expertise Locator	Locate the experts within your organization. Not all knowledge is explicitly kept in documents and other content. Much of the knowledge is tacitly kept, developed through direct action and experiences. This tacit knowledge would then be shared through conversation or through story telling. The skills and expertise of these experts are kept within an expertise directory that may be updated as an individuals gain new skills and experiences.
Instant Messaging	Upon locating the user, you may communicate directly with him through an instant messenger. Send messages to the experts and communicate directly with him. Files can also be exchanged via the messenger.
Integration with Search Werx	When integrated with Search Werx, Knowledge Werx becomes a platform for explicit knowledge discovery services. Search Werx enables you to search for knowledge within documents and other contents.

System Requirements

Browser-Based Client Requirements
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows NT
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP Sun
Solaris 2.6, Solaris System 7
System 8 Macintosh 9.0

Supported Browsers
Netscape 4.7x, Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0

Server Operating System
Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows NT
Sun Solaris and Linux

Application Server Requirements
BEA Weblogic 5.1, 6.0, 7.0 and 8.1
Tomcat Application Server
Any J2EE-compliant server

Database server Requirements
Oracle 8i, 9i
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
MySQL 4.1

Hard Disk Requirements
100MB minimum required disk space

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