A behind-the-firewall, enterprise-class offering, NGES provides
organizations with the most complete and flexible platform for finding,
distributing and sharing only the most relevant RSS feeds across groups and
organizations. With NGES, employees can access internal and external RSS
feeds within Microsoft Outlook, the full range of mobile devices, corporate
portals, and the Web without having to download any client-side software.
Enhancements within NGES 1.3 include improvements in usability, integration
with Microsoft Sharepoint, new collaboration capabilities, additional
knowledge management and administrative features, and globalization.
"A key business issue facing enterprises today is finding the most
effective way to manage the information flow of both external and internal
content across their organization," said Robert McCullough, program
manager, business applications and commerce, Yankee Group. "RSS has emerged
as a viable platform for CIOs and CKOs to provide employees with relevant
information and collaboration tools, which can directly impact efficiency
and improve productivity. NewsGator Enterprise Server helps enterprises
become more efficient by centrally managing subscriptions, deploying across
platforms without installing client software, and minimizing bandwidth
usage."
As companies and employees struggle with information overload, RSS has
quickly become a powerful business tool to help them gain control over how
content is managed and distributed throughout the organization. Access to
accurate and relevant information is critical to making the right business
decisions and communicating with customers in a timely manner. Companies in
several industries, including pharmaceutical, retail, legal, consulting,
human resources, financial services and public relations have dramatically
improved employee productivity by deploying NewsGator's enterprise-focused
RSS solutions.
"A lot of valuable, timely information gets lost in email," said Elizabeth
Ellis, partner and Chief Knowledge Officer at Toronto based law firm
Goodman and Carr, LLP. "With NewsGator Enterprise Server, practice groups
can easily see relevant feeds from blogs, news and internal systems on our
Microsoft Sharepoint Portal. It allows the attorneys and paralegals to find
information more quickly, which will lead to more billable hours and better
client service."
"With the rapid growth of both internal and external feeds, companies are
quickly realizing that the management and distribution of that content
should be handled on a centralized basis," said J.B. Holston, president and
CEO of NewsGator. "By working closely with customers since the initial
unveiling of NewsGator Enterprise Server last fall, we have improved the
knowledge management, collaboration, and administrative tools and added
significant functional enhancements that enable businesses to quickly
improve productivity and the delivery of information throughout their
organizations."
New Features
NewsGator Enterprise Server 1.3 includes the following new capabilities:
Knowledge Management and Relevancy
-- SharePoint Team Portal integration -- This feature enables the
publishing of a set of feeds to a Microsoft SharePoint portal site that
members of a group can view.
-- Group Clippings -- This knowledge management feature allows a
member of an internal team or group to take important items, add a comment,
and drop them into a folder, which is then turned into an RSS feed to which
others can subscribe. This increases productivity by enabling many to
benefit from the work and effort undertaken by an individual.
-- Refined article and feed searching -- Users can customize searches for
only internally generated/published content (versus all content indexed
internally) and define SmartFeeds (keyword searches) in the same way.
-- Feed creation from email -- Users can easily turn emails into RSS
feeds.
-- Improved user interface -- New look and feel, improved navigation and
support for favicons (icons from feed publishers).
Author: Array
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