ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT CONFERENCE 2011 — Bamboo®
Solutions, the leading provider of solutions for Microsoft®
SharePoint®, today unveils Community Central™ for SharePoint, a turnkey
application designed to enhance social collaboration within the
enterprise. By extending SharePoint’s out-of-the-box social
collaboration capabilities, Community Central delivers a powerful
SharePoint-based social solution which can compete with industry-leading
platforms. Community Central for SharePoint allows organizations to
seamlessly add the most desirable, feature-rich tools users expect from
today’s popular consumer social platforms to their SharePoint
environment. The enhanced social interactions made possible by Community
Central leverage the dependably secure enterprise infrastructure of
SharePoint that organizations require.
With Community Central’s user-friendly blogging and forum management
capabilities, organizations can capture the knowledge and expertise of
their user base. The best-in-class discussion boards, blogs, and
community administration tools available with Community Central’s social
solution allows organizations to directly engage with employees and
customers.
By extending the out-of-the-box social collaboration features inherent
within the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platform, with Community Central,
organizations can fundamentally change the way they manage and share
information, including:
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Quickly create an interactive e-learning site for the sharing of
expert information both internally and externally;
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Aggregate “Cornerstone Content,” where all content related to a
specific topic is pulled together in one place;
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Build online communities with “Birds-of-a-Feather” private discussions;
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Create an internal/external interactive knowledge area for accessing
knowledge from the experts;
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Provide a social collaboration environment between vendors and
customers for product announcements, support, and services; and
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Allow executives to more easily communicate their vision, policies,
and changes throughout the organization.
“We developed these capabilities after identifying the need for more
robust community sites, discussion boards, and search capabilities,
boosting our own productivity by working smarter and finding answers
faster,” said Trang Husebo, Senior Product Manager at Bamboo Solutions.
“With key improvements to how users find information, Community Central
is a critical enterprise solution to drive collaboration and innovation
within an organization. And with deployment complete in just a matter
of hours, Community Central provides organizations with a speedy return
on their investment.”
By incorporating standalone Bamboo components such as Discussion Board
Plus and Bamboo Rating Column, Community Central illustrates Bamboo’s
“solution frameworks” architecture wherein individual components from
Bamboo’s powerful library of 70+ components can be configured as a
complete solution to meet a specific business requirement. Extending the
value of such solution frameworks further, Bamboo Solutions plans to
integrate Community Central with other products in the portfolio to
provide enterprise solutions which will help organizations achieve
successful management of their communication, decisions, resources,
systems, opportunities, and business processes.
Additional information and demonstrations of Community Central for
SharePoint 2010 are available upon request at the Bamboo Solutions’
booth (#339) at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011, taking place
October 3-6 in Anaheim, CA, and at booth #32 at the European SharePoint
Conference, taking place October 17-20 in Berlin, Germany.
For More Information:
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To learn more about Community Central, and to be among the first to
find out about product availability, click on the “Add to Alert List”
at http://store.bamboosolutions.com/sharepoint-community-central.aspx.
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For more details on Community Central and all other Bamboo Solutions
products, please visit Bamboo Nation: http://community.bamboosolutions.com
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Become a fan of Bamboo Solutions on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bamboosolutions
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Follow @bamboonation on Twitter and join the conversation
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Community Central for SharePoint will be available for purchase in
mid-October, at which time a free 30-day trial will also be available.
For more information, visit store.bamboosolutions.com.
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Contact a Bamboo Account Specialist at 1.877.226.2662 (toll free),
+1.703.964.2002
About Bamboo Solutions
Bamboo Solutions is the global leader in SharePoint solutions. Since
2001, more than 8,000 organizations worldwide have chosen to enhance and
extend their SharePoint deployments with software from Bamboo. Featuring
more than 70 individual products for SharePoint, Bamboo offers a broad
array of solutions, including Project Management, Knowledge Management,
Community Management, Case Management, and Process Management. Please
visit www.bamboosolutions.com
to learn how Bamboo can help your organization Take SharePoint to New
Heights™.
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