KnowNow goes Beyond RSS, way beyond
KMWorld and others picked up the KnowNow press release on their new products, (KMWorld) Beyond RSS, way beyond:
KnowNow has released three new solutions designed to instantly connect people with critical information: Market Intelligence, Corporate Communications and Alternative Marketing Channel. Based on KnowNow's Enterprise Syndication Solutions (ESS) platform, the new offerings are said to eliminate the latency that prevents most organizations from taking action when opportunities first arise. Immediately available, the solutions are offered both as on-premise software and as hosted services.
From what I understand in the press release and the product information on their website, KnowNow is providing an aggregator with blogosphere (and beyond) search capability and a composition tool of some variety. I think what makes this Enterprise 2.0 is that they are pulling and pushing both web feeds and non-RSS content. And, possibly, the components are geared towards stability and security more than the stand alone aggregators out there.
Has anyone seen these tools in action? Can you comment on them? I know that both Attensa and NewsGator have enterprise versions, though it's unclear if they incorporate the publishing aspect that appears to be included with KnowNow. And do they have built-in search, or do they rely on users being able to set up their own search feeds with pick-your-service. Attensa CEO comments on their Enterprise RSS and how they relate to NewsGator and KnowNow.
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I work for Attensa and I'm happy to share my take on what makes our approach to handling web feeds in the enterprise different.
The primary differences in our approach are based on our unique AttentionStream technology, our synchronization architecture and a feed reading experience that helps people cut through information overload.
The Attensa Feed Server is an appliance that lets IT organizations manage internal and external Web feeds and assign specific feeds to users and groups. AttentionStream synchronization ties desktop, web and mobile RSS reader clients together so articles read, filed and deleted are treated consistently across all of the clients.
Explicit and implicit attention behaviors are tracked and measured as users read and process their feeds and articles providing metrics and reports that can be used to by the organization to identify thought leaders, locate experts and track key strategic issues and productivity trends.
For individual users our AttentionStream technology intelligently prioritizes feeds and articles so the most relevant information automatically rises to the top to help cut through information overload.
Attensa for Outlook is a feed reader designed for serious business users. It works inside of Outlook and provides information workers with a persistent search tool that tracks 17 search engines and sutomatically sends articles containing search terms as soon as the information is published.
It also supports:
Tagging to add social netowrking context to articles
Authentication for secure internal and external feeds
The ability to import and export custom OPML files that include not just the the list of web feeds and subscription data but also the associated AttentionStream prioritization data.
The ability to forward web feed articles and to reblog an article as easily as sending an email.
Obviously I could go on all day.
There's a great overview of our feed server on WebProNews - http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060801AttensaHeatsUpItsRSSAppliance.html
I'd be happy to answer any specific questions. Email me at sniesen [at] attensa [dot] com.
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Jack, I appreciate you mentioning the KM World article re: KnowNow's latest news. I'm the head of marketing for KnowNow, and I wanted to respond to your question re: whether anyone has seen KnowNow in action. Phil Windley of InfoWorld wrote a product review on KnowNow ESS that was published in July. Here's the link: http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/07/06/28TCknownow_1.html . Thanks again for noticing KnowNow, and if you or anyone have comments or questions, please let me know.