Corporate memory / knowledge management

[RoryA]

Jon,
There seems to be a typo in your write-up: you have the lack of shared workbooks in Excel down as a Con...

 

[Jon von der Heyden]

Hi Emma

Yes what I have described is probably beyond your requirements. Bringing this back on topic though I think you could possibly use a combination of the modules to achieve an effective KM system. It's worth checking with your MI bunch what package they have available to you.

Wiki sounds like a good starting point!

Also, for smaller enterprises perhaps worth considering DotNetNuke (DNN): www.dotnetnuke.com. It's free!

It's similar in many respects to Sharepoint Collaboration, in that you can build wiki's, forums, document libraries etc. It's a web package and equally easy to learn. I'm using it for a website at the moment and absolutely loving it.

 

[Jon von der Heyden]

Jon,
There seems to be a typo in your write-up: you have the lack of shared workbooks in Excel down as a Con...

I couldn't agree more!

One other con we have have here is that we cannot create links to other workbooks - they will automatically point to the temp file on the C drive. That doesn't bother me either though, cos I find models linking to models linking to models...etc become a real pain to manage.

 

[RoryA]

That does sound like a pretty big flaw though in a piece of software designed to centralise everything! Must be a way around that.

 

[Jon von der Heyden]

I think it is specific to our construct. Our Sharepoint Support team tell me that it wouldn't be an issue if we were using 2007, although that doesn't really make much sense to me. It's something on my list of things to resolve.

 

[cornflakegirl]

The KM system I used in my last job also didn't allow worksheet links, which rendered it pretty much useless for the Finance team.

Thanks for the link Jon - will check it out!

EDIT - Eeek! Just followed the link - it's a bit techy! May just stick with talking to my MI guy

 

[SydneyGeek]

Something else that you may find useful -- Sitepoint is great for intranets, and also has a feature called MySite where you can build a team site for a particular section. I've seen one group use it as a place for all of their policies, resource documents, templates, etc.

And with the versioning, you have control over how many versions to keep -- useful for reducing duplication and disk usage.

Denis

 

[Domski]

Just as a follow up to this I've just been invited to a demo of MS PerformancePoint which I think is being tee'd up as our corporate BI solution. Sounds like it uses SharePoint and SQL Server tech so could be interesting. I know getting it to work with SAP will be for someone (thankfully not me).

Dom