MetaVis: Another SharePoint Helper
October 19, 2010
SharePoint, SharePoint, my kingdom for a working SharePoint. Apologies to Little Willie. Last week I was surrounded by various shifty types for three days. Those law enforcement and intelligence conferences are darned interesting. I never know who is like to burst out with a SharePoint solution and who will dig into the exotica of Linux.
I did learn that one happy intelligence outfit outside the US was making SharePoint work like a humming Singer sewing machine. The trick, I think I understood, was to use a product from MetaVis. I had heard of the company and its taxonomy solution, but I did not know too much about it. With a word of encouragement from a government official, I did some checking.
The basics are:
MetaVis Technologies is a Microsoft Gold Certified ISV that develops packaged software solutions to help organize SharePoint environments for improved search, findability and e-discovery. MetaVis takes the complexity out of designing, deploying and managing content within SharePoint by offering reusable taxonomies, metadata management and migration software and services. The benefit is an organized SharePoint environment that is easily understood and well documented. The company believes that taxonomy management within SharePoint should not be complicated to implement and use. MetaVis products are based on intuitive, graphical interfaces that are easy to use and easy to install. Drag and drop features allow information architects to design SharePoint metadata models and reuse them saving valuable time and resources. As a result, MetaVis products improve search optimization, consistency, content migration, and workflows across corporate SharePoint sites.
The idea is that Microsoft’s native SharePoint is not the tiara that a corporate princess is likely to wear to a shareholde4r meeting. To fix that highly visible problem, a third party solution is required.
The company’s newest product is a “cloud classifier”:
The new product allows SharePoint 2010 users to tag and classify multiple items directly from the SharePoint user interface. By integrating directly into the SharePoint Web Interface, Cloud Classifier appears seamlessly in the SharePoint ribbon… SharePoint 2010 provides tagging and classification technology but is limited to individual items…MetaVis Cloud Classifier allows users to select multiple documents from SharePoint sites, libraries, lists or search results and classify in bulk. Users can also create templates to help classify content for specific projects or activities further simplifying the process. By making classification easy for the user, content becomes more findable and accessible.
The company offers word lists, taxonomy and classification tools, and glue code to make SharePoint work. The company offers some videos that make clear the features and functions of the firm’s different software solutions. You can access these at this MetaVis location.
There is little doubt that SharePoint supports a thriving ecosystem. Now what about Alfresco?
Stephen E Arnold, October 18, 2010
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