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KnowledgeLake 

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http://www.knowledgelake.com 

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KnowledgeLake, Inc. develops document imaging, document capture, and workflow products and solutions for Microsoft SharePoint.  KnowledgeLake extends the Electronic Content Management (ECM) capabilities of SharePoint, enabling businesses to reduce shipping costs, streamline operations, and achieve regulatory compliance using familiar Microsoft products that most businesses already own and use.

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Overview 

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KnowledgeLake, Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is the market leader in developing document imaging and capture products for Microsoft SharePoint based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions. 
 
Built on the Microsoft .NET platform, KnowledgeLake enables organizations of any size to leverage SharePoint for solving today’s complex document problems.  KnowledgeLake document imaging and capture products extend the native capabilities of SharePoint with a powerful suite of applications that allow users to capture large quantities of mission critical documents and transform them into easily consumable business information. 
 
The founders of KnowledgeLake have decades of experience architecting, selling and implementing ECM products and solutions.  In 2003, they released a suite of products built for Microsoft SharePoint 2003 that launched the industry’s very first platform ECM system.  Today, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) provides an industry leading ECM platform that completely eliminates the need for high-cost legacy applications.
 
The mission of KnowledgeLake is clear and simple. “To enable our customers to realize their full potential by serving them with new and innovative document technologies.”

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Capture Solutions 

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KnowledgeLake document imaging capabilities transform Microsoft SharePoint into a production document management system.  KnowledgeLake Capture allows end-users to scan and index documents then release them into the appropriate SharePoint repository.

Organizations use production scanning devices to meet high-volume document imaging requirements.  With KnowledgeLake document imaging for Microsoft SharePoint you can easily scan batches of documents into SharePoint.

KnowledgeLake document imaging software for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 eliminates paper and the associated costs and business process limitations it commands.  KnowledgeLake document imaging software is built on Microsoft SharePoint and consists of a series of components to broaden the Microsoft SharePoint core document management capabilities.  KnowledgeLake document imaging includes:

  • Imaging search interface deployed in a SharePoint site to allow users to perform exact relevance searches for documents utilizing any combination of index values.
  • The imaging’s browser-based zero footprint viewer, which allows end-users to view images (TIF, JPG and PNG files) and view and/or edit the SharePoint properties on literally any computer without the need for special software or downloads.
  • Capabilities to configure document repositories, content types, index values, database validations, and database lookups all from a central location inside of Microsoft SharePoint.
  • Import/Export functionality to allow users to import or export documents from one or many Document Libraries directly from the SharePoint user interface.
  • Print functionality directly from within SharePoint.
  • Imaging Scan to scan directly from within a SharePoint Document Library. Users can then view the images directly within the KnowledgeLake Scan window and index with KnowledgeLake Document Imaging Index prior to final save.

KnowledgeLake Capture
KnowledgeLake Capture is a production level scanning solution that allows large departments or enterprises to capture paper and release those documents to the SharePoint document repository as tif, pdf, or xps formats. Production level features include Image clean-up, barcode and patch code recognition, zonal OCR, index validation, and document email.

Once the documents are captured, the software provides for image processing such as black border removal, line removal, de-skew, de-speckle, and character repair.  Pages can be separated using barcodes or patch-codes.  Indexing documents can be automated using bar-code recognition, full-text or zonal OCR, rubber-band indexing, or automated database lookups.  Once the documents are indexed they are automatically added to SharePoint using KnowledgeLake’s Web-service or FPRPC release that enables document libraries to scale to tens of millions of documents. 

KnowledgeLake Capture is architected to completely integrate with KnowledgeLake Imaging Index and is configurable from inside of SharePoint interface.

KnowledgeLake provides solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Document Imaging and Capture and Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM).

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Components of ECM 

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According to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) management association, ECM is the technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM tools and strategies allow the management of an organization's unstructured information, wherever that information exists.

KnowledgeLake Imaging leverages the tight integration of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with the Microsoft Office 2007 desktop and servers and enhances its document imaging, document management and capture capabilities with a suite of extensions including image capture, Meta data searching and image viewing. KnowledgeLake Imaging is the first to market with a full-featured Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)-based image viewer for SharePoint, and the leading Microsoft-centric imaging solution using SharePoint as the core document repository.  

Key components of effective Enterprise Content Management solutions include:

Capture
Before you can store images in a SharePoint Document Library, you have to capture the image.  This includes high speed document scanning, desktop scanning and fax Capture.

Document Imaging
Microsoft SharePoint Document Imaging software from KnowledgeLake enables users to easily organize, store, and access all unstructured business documents (paper, faxes, e-mails, computer reports, etc.) and business critical information.   As a tightly integrated component within the SharePoint, it allows users to search for documents by any index values which are created and maintained with the SharePoint site template. Users can even configure the search results by document type, date or any other column.

KnowledgeLake Document Imaging is the first to feature a full-featured Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)-based image viewer for SharePoint, and the leading Microsoft-centric imaging solution using SharePoint as the core document repository.

Document Management
Document Management enables companies to control documents from their creation through to long-term archiving. Document management includes functions such as:

  • Check in/Check out for checking stored information for consistency
  • Version management to keep track of different versions of the same information with their revisions and renditions (same information in a different format)
  • Search and navigation for finding information and its associated contexts
  • Visualizing for showing information in structures like virtual files, folders, and overviews

KnowledgeLake provides solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Document Imaging and Capture and Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM).

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Why We Joined 

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As we all know Microsoft Office SharePoint products and technologies are compelling and valuable tools that encourage collaboration and communication in a shared environment.
 
Nevertheless, as with other collaboration platforms without proper governance, a SharePoint deployment can become a uncontrollable messy collection of sites, users and links that create the same challenges of traditional file shares and repositories. But with proper preparation and planning the SharePoint solution can provide great flexibility and power
 
At KnowledgeLake we’ve found many of our clients are looking for direction on how to plan for their implementation but not sure where to look first.  By sponsoring, contributing and advising at MOSS Governance.org we hope to help build a portal where we can send our clients when presented with this challenge.  There’s plenty of information already out there, but we feel a central point of discovery will be a great benefit and time saver for anyone with the SharePoint governance challenge.
 
We look forward to the success of this site and contributing advice to not only assist our clients but the SharePoint community in general.

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