SharePoint and KnowledgeTree

Posted by Sean Lew on Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 under Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, software, Web 2.0 |

I have been getting many incoming search strings to this blog on SharePoint and KnowledgeTree and I would like to address this question people might have.

Interesting enough, I actually asked KnowledgeTree this question last night but after the meeting, I felt I had asked a rather silly question. Sharepoint and KnowledgeTree are two different products. Traditionally, Sharepoint was a document manager and until now they are still a document manager. However, Sharepoint has added new collaborative and Web 2.0 features into it. However, KnowledgeTree is a document manager with some collaborative features, it doesn’t have the enterprise content management, business forms and business intelligence components that Sharepoint has. If you ask me, Jive’s ClearSpace is probably Sharepoint’s competitor (P.S. Clearspace does a MUCH better job).

KnowledgeTree is Free (pay for support if you want for the community edition. There’s an option to pay for the commercial edition where you get extra features and support – see comments section for more. Thanks Natasha) and Sharepoint, like many Microsoft software, is horrendously expensive. If you are looking for a excellent and cheap document manager, KnowledgeTree is the way to go. If you are thinking about Sharepoint, think again and again. There are many other super excellent options out there. KnowledgeTree has many great features and good extension capabilities. I believe KnowledgeTree has positioned itself as a excellent open source document manager but not a full Enterprise 2.0 suite.

I have one little tip: make sure everyone do their in depth requirements gathering process for any system you are thinking of building / implementing.

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Just to add a point, KnowledgeTree is a fit for purpose Document manager and I totally recommend it to everyone.

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