Correlate Announces K-Map Web Part for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server

Business Wire, May 1, 2001

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2001

K-Map Web Part to Be Included in Microsoft's Digital Dashboard

Resource Kit (DDRK) 3.0 Offering SharePoint Users - Work Offline; Enterprise Knowledge-based Applications; Personal, Ad-hoc Information

Management; Enhanced Search, Migration Help and More...

Correlate Technologies, Inc., an innovative developer of enterprise knowledge management solutions, announced Correlate K-Map 3.0 Web Part for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server.

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server offers companies a flexible portal solution to easily find, share and publish information. Correlate has announced the release of a special version of its flagship product, Correlate K-Map, as a Web Part that integrates with SharePoint Portal Server. The Correlate K-Map Web Part provides a drag & drop application layer on top of the SharePoint Portal Server platform. Users can drag & drop information from other Web Parts (and external sources) to form K-Maps for project management, policies & procedures, sales kits, product plans, compliance reporting etc. Notebook users would specifically benefit from the K-Map ability to "grab" SharePoint Portal Server content and make it available offline -- for either viewing or editing.

"Customers will be turning to the Correlate K-Map Web Part to extend their SharePoint Portal Server solution with offline capabilities; enterprise best practices; personal, ad-hoc information management and enhanced search," said Jeff Teper, General Manager of the SharePoint Portal Server Business Unit at Microsoft. "We are excited that enterprises will be able to deliver organized SharePoint Portal Server content via K-Maps, for either online or offline use."

See table below for a benefits overview --

Benefits for the enterprise

-- Enterprise best practices - fast, easy and cost effective way to create
enterprise Knowledge based applications such as RFIs, policies & procedures,
product launch plans, marketing projects, compliance reporting and more.

-- Out-of-the-box solution, fully integrated into the SharePoint Portal Server
environment.

Benefits for end-users

-- Personal, ad-hoc information management -- drag & drop to

create your own project K-Maps; save them into SharePoint

Portal Server and share them with your peers.

-- Delivery vehicle for offline use -- put together a collection

of information items pertaining to a particular topic, e.g. a

sales kit, and deliver it to be used either online or offline.

-- Structured search results -- automatically group your

SharePoint Portal Server search results according to your

preferred structure, e.g. by customer name, and under each

customer group all documents by project name.

-- Jump-start your migration to SharePoint Portal Server -- drag

& drop your files (or folders) into a K-Map and choose the

"Add to SharePoint" function to quickly upload multiple files

into SharePoint Portal Server.

Benefits for Microsoft solution providers / integrators

The Correlate K-Map is designed to be customized and integrated into 3rd party applications --

-- Full Automation Support -- the Correlate K-Map Web Part

exposes a comprehensive Document Object Model (DOM) via

Automation. All properties, methods and events of the K-Map

and its items are fully accessible programmatically.

-- Based on Open Standards -- K-Maps are stored as XML documents.

K-Maps can be saved directly to SharePoint Portal Server

(similar to Office XP).

The Correlate K-Map Web Part is tightly integrated into SharePoint Portal Server digital dashboard technology, and the document management and search and indexing technology in the product. The K-Map Web Part also enables seamless drag & drop functionality from Microsoft Outlook and other information sources.

Pricing and availability

"We are very excited to offer enhanced functionality to users of SharePoint Portal Server via K-Map Web Part," said Phil Borghuis, VP Strategic Alliances, Correlate Technologies, Inc. "The Correlate K-Map Web Part is available as part of the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit 3.0 and the online Web Part Gallery, as well as on our Web site at http://www.correlate.com/sharepoint. SharePoint Portal Server users can download a FREE evaluation copy and be up-and-running within minutes."

Correlate has announced a very aggressive introductory price to help guarantee that every SharePoint user enjoys the tremendous added value embedded in Correlate's K-Map Web Part. To find out more go to http://www.correlate.com/sharepoint.> About Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server

SharePoint Portal Server is a flexible portal solution from Microsoft that allows companies to easily find, share and publish information. SharePoint Portal Server can search and index the most important enterprise content sources across an organization and make the information available to anyone in the company via a familiar user interface. The new offering combines enterprise-level search functionality developed by Microsoft research, with integrated document management tools and flexible, easily customizable enterprise portal capabilities.