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We are pleased to announce the release of the latest update for our TMCore07 Enterprise Information Server.

Service Pack 4 (SP4) is primarily a performance and bug-fix release. There are no changes to existing APIs and this upgrade is recommended for all customers currently using TMCore07 SP3 or earlier. More details of what has been changed in this release are available here.

Networked Planet is excited to announce a new blog dedicated to all things Web3. We see huge potential to utilise Topic Maps and other semantic technologies on a global scale and this blog contains ideas, services and information about this. The new web3 blog can be found here.

NetworkedPlanet are pleased to announce the release of version 3.1 of the TMCore SharePoint Module.

The TMCore SharePoint Module is a tight integration between Microsoft SharePoint and the TMCore information management server that greatly improves the way information is organised, classified and located with Microsoft SharePoint solutions.

This new release sees a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, but more significantly it includes a number of features that have been requested by our customers including support for paged faceted search results and some new facet selectors for faceted search; more flexible auto-classification schemes; and the ability to filter and sort SharePoint lists by the classification information attached to the list items.

The new version is available as an upgrade for all customers with a current maintenance contract. For more information and download details please email us.

Oslo 12/11/08, at the EPiServer Techforum NetworkedPlanet were awarded the Module of the Year prize on EPiCode for EasySearch.

EasySearch is a powerful, simple to configure, search engine for the EPiServer content management system. It supports full text indexing of pages and files based on EPiServer events. Further, it provides facilities to developers to refine the indexes that are created to provide the best possible search experience for the customer.

The EasySearch module comes complete with a generic search and indexing API for developers, completely customizable indexing, an administrator plug-in for managing the index and several ASP.NET 2.0 web parts for building search pages and search driven web sites in seconds.

EasySearch is also gaining enterprise search level features with support for load balanced and federated searching.

NetworkedPlanet technical lead on EasySearch, Andy Brodie, had this to say about EasySearch:

"There was a clear need in the EPiServer community for a robust, easily configurable and developer friendly search engine. With EasySearch we’ve done all the under the hood event processing and exposed a set of interfaces and hooks that really empower developers to quickly build great search solutions."

Graham Moore Director of NetworkedPlanet added

"Having the EPiCode platform was an ideal way for us to take EasySearch to market. We have had great support from BVNetwork and the EPiServer developer community in building this module."

Steve Celius of BVNetwork said on the day

"NetworkedPlanet follows best practices when developing the search module for EPiServer CMS, giving full insight into each step of the development by committing often and providing good comments. They respond to tickets in a timely manner and make new releases available often. The source is of high quality and contains some of the most advanced event handling and page life cycle tracking available on the EPiServer platform."

For more information, please download a technical overview of EasySearch.

• Platform will link together thousands of key child policy and legislation documents on over 50 Intranet sites worldwide
• Uses Web 3:0 semantic classifications to extend functionality of SharePoint investment to deliver up-to-the-minute information across the enterprise

NetworkedPlanet, the leading vendor of information management tools and products, has announced a major new order from EveryChild, the international child protection and development charity. EveryChild will use NetworkedPlanet’s TMCore SharePoint module to power the search facility in its new global Intranet – which will connect hundreds of employees across 50 sites globally. Now, for the first time, the new Intranet will enable EveryChild’s employees to have a central point of information, regardless of location, and allow them to access key policy information and keep them up to date on new legislation – which might include details on AIDS awareness.

The charity previously used a traditional shared network drive to store company documents however, following a SharePoint installation it needed a solution to enhance search facilities and intelligently link information across its different locations including the UK, Russia, India and Cambodia. As part of the order, NetworkedPlanet’s TMCore SharePoint Module will enable EveryChild’s employees to link documents together and classify them according to topic and theme. The new solution will provide a way for EveryChild to relate all of its content in a structure that represents the organisation, the projects it runs, the places it works, the important themes it addresses and the partner organisations that it works with. This will allow employees to semantically search across the organisation – significantly enhancing and speeding up search capabilities.

Ade Adeyemo, IT Manager at EveryChild: “As our organisation has grown it has become more and more important for us to adopt an efficient and quick approach to enterprise search. NetworkedPlanet’s Topic Maps technology was the ideal solution as it was able to extend the functionality of our existing SharePoint application. Going forward, all departments will use the Intranet for storing and managing all of the documents that they share with other departments. By using a single classification scheme for all documents it is possible to quickly find all information relating to a particular theme such as ‘AIDS awareness’ – for example. Classifying documents by not only their subject but also their function, the user can then narrow that search down to finding just ‘policy documents about AIDS awareness’ or even ‘policy documents about AIDS awareness in Malawi’. These documents are found even if they don’t explicitly use these phrases in their content.

This project has also enabled us to standardise on company document classifications so that every employee is working from the same page when tagging content – which in the long run will really enable us to future proof our documenting and searching system.

Ade Adeyemo, IT Manager, EveryChild

“Growing organisations need a central and efficient solution which enables them to share information across the business – regardless of location,” commented Kal Ahmed, Founder of NetworkedPlanet. “The beauty of Topic Maps technology is that it enables users to tag documents according to content and theme, which means that anyone looking for a similar document or information on that same topic will automatically have access to a relevant file. We are noticing that more and more charity organisations – many of which have offices across the world – are taking advantage of Web 3.0 semantic classifications and adopting a TopicMaps approach to search to significantly enhance communication across the enterprise.”