We help you efficiently share and refind important information.

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Knowledge Plaza isan unbelievably elegant solutionfor Knowledge Management.

Angela VarnerWorldwide KM Technology Platform Manager

Boston Consulting Group

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Break silos

Everybody is reading information, and is sharing it sometimes, somewhere, with some people, irregularly and inefficiently.

Organize

Besides, shared information is not structured and hard to find back.

Fluidify and filter

Finally, how can we feed collaborators with relevant information?

Collect Enrich Diffuse

Knowledge Plaza is a user-friendly collaboration platform allowing users to save information of various kinds and formats, organize and enrich them collectively, and possibly redistribute this knowledge to other audiences – other collaborators, clients or partners. This platform is accessible via your favorite Web browser.

First, there is youAnd your colleaguesYou and others are affiliated to a series of workspaces, which can be public or private.In those workspaces, depending on your membership status, you can access, read, download, upload and share “Tiles”: documents, web pages, important e-mails, contacts, ideas or even references to physical documents.Those pieces of information can be tagged, rated, commented, monitored, searched (KP indexes in full-text), compiled or related, and even exported for external use, printing or offline reading.

First, there is youAnd your colleaguesYou and others are affiliated to a series of workspaces, which can be public or private.In those workspaces, depending on your membership status, you can access, read, download, upload and share “Tiles”: documents, web pages, important e-mails, contacts, ideas or even references to physical documents.Those pieces of information can be tagged, rated, commented, monitored, searched (KP indexes in full-text), compiled or related, and even exported for external use, printing or offline reading.

First, there is youAnd your colleaguesYou and others are affiliated to a series of workspaces, which can be public or private.In those workspaces, depending on your membership status, you can access, read, download, upload and share “Tiles”: documents, web pages, important e-mails, contacts, ideas or even references to physical documents.Those pieces of information can be tagged, rated, commented, monitored, searched (KP indexes in full-text), compiled or related, and even exported for external use, printing or offline reading.

First, there is youAnd your colleaguesYou and others are affiliated to a series of workspaces, which can be public or private.In those workspaces, depending on your membership status, you can access, read, download, upload and share “Tiles”: documents, web pages, important e-mails, contacts, ideas or even references to physical documents.Those pieces of information can be tagged, rated, commented, monitored, searched (KP indexes in full-text), compiled or related, and even exported for external use, printing or offline reading.

First, there is youAnd your colleaguesYou and others are affiliated to a series of workspaces, which can be public or private.In those workspaces, depending on your membership status, you can access, read, download, upload and share “Tiles”: documents, web pages, important e-mails, contacts, ideas or even references to physical documents.Those pieces of information can be tagged, rated, commented, monitored, searched (KP indexes in full-text), compiled or related, and even exported for external use, printing or offline reading.

First, there is youAnd your colleaguesYou and others are affiliated to a series of workspaces, which can be public or private.In those workspaces, depending on your membership status, you can access, read, download, upload and share “Tiles”: documents, web pages, important e-mails, contacts, ideas or even references to physical documents.Those pieces of information can be tagged, rated, commented, monitored, searched (KP indexes in full-text), compiled or related, and even exported for external use, printing or offline reading.

Social BookmarkingInstantly save and share Web sources

Social BookmarkingInstantly save and share Web sources

• ‘quick add’ button in the browser• Web page full-text indexing• PDF archive• import tools

Document managementSave any type of file

• any type• versioning• full-text indexing• bulk upload• share files via email

Document managementSave any type of file

Advanced taggingTaxonomy and folksonomy united

• family of tags (facets)• tag suggestions• mandatory vs free tags• advanced tag management

Advanced taggingTaxonomy and folksonomy united

Enterprise searchKnowledge on demand

• a unique, transversal platform for all sources• a powerful advanced search• instant directories using faceted search• vertical search engines everywhere• numerous filtering and sorting options

Enterprise searchKnowledge on demand

Social networkingEngage with other users

• dynamic profiles• interactive activity feed• microblogging• instant messaging (on demand)• online presence

Social networkingEngage with other users

CollaborationTurn information into knowledge

• wikis around topics or projects with reference to collated sources

• versions history and restoring• exportable wiki pages in pdf reports

CollaborationTurn information into knowledge

EnrichingBring value to information

• public comments• private notes• ratings

EnrichingBring value to information

Knowledge streamingKnow what your colleagues share

• email alerts from saved searches• RSS feeds everywhere• global digests

Knowledge streamingKnow what your colleagues share

Content curationDiffuse information selectively to wide audiences with KP Communities*

• customizable and lean diffusion portals• easy membership management• searching and browsing• commenting and rating• digests and rss feeds

* additional module (on demand)

Content curationDiffuse information selectively to wide audiences with KP Communities*

Knowledge Plaza aims at enriching traditional documentary approaches whose focus stands primarily on organizing and finding information...

by combining them with the simplicity and effectiveness of web 2.0 technologies to fluidify knowledge and act as a catalyst for exchange between individuals.

KP lies between these two approaches, creating an ideal environment for knowledge management purposes in small or large organizations.

• For the client

• Compatible browser, currently officially supported: Internet Explorer 7+,

Firefox 3+, Chrome 10+, Safari 4+

• For the server (on premise version)

• We provide a complete server (hardware/software) or the client provides a

virtual environment according to our specifications (e.g. VMware, Xen, on

a case-by-case basis)

• Remote administration requires a VPN access for updates and intervention

purposes

• Access to server must be configured for HTTP, HTTPS and SSH protocols

Technical requirements

• Infrastructure

• Physically secure co-location facility (hosted version)

• Application access is limited to HTTP/HTTPS sessions

• Administration access is limited to Secure Shell (SSH) and restricted to

necessary support personnel only

• All sessions are fully encrypted with high-grade 256-bit AES

• Application-level

• Easy member management to allow quick and secure adding and

disabling of members

• Integration of existing corporate Active Directory / LDAP (on-premise

version only)

• Strict access policies to define who sees / has access to what information

• Full site activity logging and security violation attempts monitoring

Security

• Interface

• AJAX-based interface: performance even on high latency connexions

• Powerful full-text search: Lucene core engine + Solr server for text

extraction

• Server

• Highly effective/scalable/secure web server: Lighttpd and Cherokee

• Python-based web application framework: TurboGears

• Open-source database: PostgreSQL

Technology

About ten engineers and KM/Collaborative Web consultants, supported by an

experimented Board, based in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).

Consulting and support services (2008)

• Information management and searching

• Experimented profiles in business intelligence and knowledge management

Strong presence in France (2009)

• Fairs, conferences, most customers located in Paris

• Offices in Neuilly

Multiple prizes and awards (>2010)

A Belgian team and a praised KM platform

M A G A Z I N E

Prix de l’innovationKnowledge

Management2010

PRIX 2011SALON DEVCOM

(BRUXELLES)

BELGIAN STARTUPOF THE YEAR 2011

FINALIST 2010KM PROMISE AWARDS

I-EXPO AWARD 2010INNOVATIVE KM SOLUTION

They trust us

Save, organize and diffuse information and knowledge.

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