I got to take a giant breath last night and started thinking about the 60 days ahead. We released our 2007 product line to public beta last night, and I can tell you I am proud and lucky to have the team I do. It's one of the most determined groups of individuals I've ever worked with. If you are a current KnowledgeLake customer with a maintenance contract you should be able to download our two desktop products early next week. Many customers signed up to test the entire line of Beta products and I look forward to seeing them all on Monday for the Beta training.
Our 2007 product line is the biggest single development project KnowledgeLake has ever taken on, as well as myself. I've always known that adding bodies to help code isn't always the answer, but I have to say that the support group around those developers cannot be big enough. I have a few key individuals (MM BP and JD) that really stepped up in non-development roles to help kick this Beta into high gear.
Let me just mention quickly about the products that are part of the Beta Program.
KnowledgeLake Enterprise Imaging Server 2007
We were hoping to invent the longest product name ever, but we just couldn't quite beat Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007, however we got close. The good thing like VSTO, we just call ours EIS for short. Anyway, this is our product that really turns either MOSS or WSS into a true Document Imaging system. It allows user to Scan, Index, Search, View, Print, Export and Import documents into SharePoint Document Libraries, directly from the SharePoint web application. The new features that have been added since our 2003 products are Scan, Index, Print and Export. I'll be blogging more about these individual features in the near future, but my feeling is these additions are going to completely separate us from other ECM vendors.
KnowledgeLake Product/Desktop Capture 2007
We have two versions of our 2007 Capture product. Unlike before where the production and desktop version were based on completely different platforms the 2007 products share a majority of their code. The big difference between the two products is the drivers it supports. Desktop Capture only works with Twain and WIA devices, although either product can be extended to use any scanner driver if you have a way to code against it in .NET. Production Capture also includes a license that connects it to our upcoming Enterprise Capture Services, due to be in Beta in a couple weeks.
KnowledgeLake Connect 2007
A complete overhaul of our original Connect product, the new Connect, while not necessarily loaded with new features, sets us up with a much better platform to grow this product. The single biggest thing we did was share the Indexing code between all products including Connect. This allows administrators to setup validations and lookups on the server side and then just consume them on all of our clients. Other cool new features include the ability to add folders to document libraries directly from the tree view, ability to upload a batch of files, prompts to overwrite files and the ability to release to Enterprise Capture Services.
If you are interested in any of these products, just hit our web site http://www.knowledgelake.com for more information on contacting us, or just keep checking my space and I'll talk about each product in detail over the coming weeks.
Have a great weekend,
Chris
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