Oak Ridge Knowledge Network

Unleash the power of sharing knowledge!

“In our global business the power of the Oak Ridge Knowledge Network allows us to have a central point where all our knowledge can be stored and shared. People can go here for all critical support information which allows us to operate on a common platform across diverse communities.”

— Mike Singer, European Knowledge Manager, BP

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Oak Ridge Business Solutions have been at the forefront of redefining the way Knowledge, Information and Data are shared and put it to use in context for organisational benefit.

For over ten years, members of the Oak Ridge Business Solutions team has been working with a number of international companies to develop a series of business and technology frameworks to bring together People, Information and Processes.

Business Benefits

Enables organisations to establish a central point for knowledge.
Increases the potential and effectiveness for knowledge transfer.
Valuable data made visible and accessible.
Promotes sharing and interaction between user in your business.
Simply and securely share files with your colleagues.
Create communities and teams to contribute and share related information.
Centrally manage projects and associated documentation.
Personalised content and tagging that enables extended search & find capabilities.
A scalable and affordable solution that grows with your business.

Features

News - share internal and external news.
People - keep up to date information on expert base within an organisation.
Organisations - information on all the organisations dealing with, managed centrally.
Products - all product information in a central location for easy reference and real-time update.
Collaboration Spaces
- Communities - combine knowledge and know-how, to blog, discuss or simply follow and subscribe to its content.
- Teams - group people of similar interests to use as distribution and security lists or to simple interact with and start discussions with.
- Projects - secure central storage for all the knowledge within a project, plans, discussions, tasks, blogs, they're all under one roof.
Tagging & Bookmarking - define your own way of finding items of interest to you, your tag cloud, your favourites and your bookmarks can deliver your content whenever you need it.
Comments - provide feedback through comments and add additional value to information.
Structured Search - search a profile, a bespoke app, content tags, any content held in the network is yours to find and the results are displayed in a categorised, easy to use results page.
Content Rating - rate the content and provide feedback, also used to filter out the useful from the useless in your content driven network, keeping the content fresh and relevant.
Usage Tracking - track popular content, usage by country or simply pages that are never visited, to refresh and keep relevant.
Content Management - News, training manuals, links all need a place to live; web based content management keeps information fresh, relevant, targeted, personal and secure.
Secure File Storage and Sharing - allows file storage and reference to external (e.g. SharePoint) file storage utilities.
Customisable & Extensible - the framework allows additional applications to be "plugged in" and take advantage of the features the Oak Ridge framework provides. CRM, HR even product management are all bespoke extendable applications that can utilise the framework's functionality.