Correlate Announces K-Map for Microsoft SharePoint Team Services

Business Wire, Sept 30, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 2001

K-Map is in General Release for Microsoft SharePoint Team Services

Offering Users - Offline Work; Enterprise Knowledge-Based

Applications; Personal, Ad-hoc Information Management; and More

Correlate Technologies, Inc., an innovative developer of enterprise knowledge management solutions, announced the general availability of Correlate K-Map 3.0 for Microsoft SharePoint Team Services.

SharePoint(TM) Team Services from Microsoft is a team Web site solution that is designed to significantly improve the way teams manage information and activities. Teams can easily create a Web site that serves as the central repository of all project information -- documents, contacts, tasks, discussions, and much more.

Correlate has announced the release of a special version of its flagship product, Correlate K-Map, which integrates with SharePoint Team Services. K-Map provides a drag & drop application layer on top of SharePoint Team Services. Users can drag & drop information from STS sites (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 Team Services content and make it available offline -- for either viewing or editing.

"Correlate uniquely extends Microsoft's SharePoint Team

Services," said Gytis Barzdukas, group product manager for

the Portal Business Group at Microsoft. "Working with

SharePoint Team Services information offline with K-Map is

a significant benefit to customers and organizing

information in new and exciting ways via K-Map enhances

the Office XP experience."

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 Team Services
environment.

Benefits for End-Users

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

drop to create your own project K-Maps; save them

into SharePoint Team Services 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 Team Services search results

according to your preferred structure, e.g. by

customer name, and under each customer group all

documents by project name.

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 Team Services (similar to Office XP).

Pricing and Availability

"We are very excited to offer enhanced functionality to users of SharePoint Team Services via K-Maps, said Phil Borghuis, VP Strategic Alliances, Correlate Technologies, Inc. "Correlate K-Map 3.0 for SharePoint Team Services pricing and information is available on our web site at http://www.correlate.com/teamservices. SharePoint Team Services users can download a FREE evaluation copy and be up-and-running within minutes."

About Correlate Technologies

Correlate's comprehensive and cost-effective platform enables enterprises to build knowledge-based applications (K-Maps) maximizing the investment in their information asset. Correlate K-Maps are used in almost all industry sectors -- from building audit K-Maps at Ernst & Young, to business intelligence at the US Drug Enforcement Agency, to project management K-Maps at Braun Consulting, to nuclear power generation procedure K-Maps at Bruce Power (formerly part of Ontario Power Generation) -- Correlate is putting content into context in many industries. Founded in 1997, Correlate is headquartered in South San Francisco, California with additional offices and/or partners throughout the US, Canada, Europe, South Africa and Israel.