Critical and valuable Knowledge of an organization can be saved, structured, shared and transferred back in the business processes. Loss of Knowledge, its negative effects and the resulting costs can thus be reduced. Retrieval of Knowledge and Information can be significantly speeded up with powerKNOW. It is very effective in saving different forms of existing Knowledge in an organization or creating new Knowledge in a structured and documented form.

Using powerKNOW, knowledge documents can be stored in a central Knowledge Base and shared by authorized users. Quality of the knowledge base can be increased step by step using different options to structure and qualify knowledge documents with more relevant meta information. powerKNOW supports the Debriefing interview technique to collect valuable and critical knowledge from experts.

powerKNOW is based on a modular software platform. The initial installation is done by an IT-Administrator through simple procedures. A Knowledge Manager, with little IT-Know How, is able to change the required configuration and parameters designed to meet the needs of an individual solution.

powerKNOW consist of two main components: Contents and Access Methods (Taxonomy and Full text search with highlighting). By defining the taxonomy and the structure of contents, a customized Knowledge Retention Solution can be created.

Functionalities of powerKNOW:

-My Structure for Knowledge Documents

-Acquisition, entry and update of Knowledge Documents.

-Search Keyword Tree (Taxonomy)

-Embedded links

-Imbedded attachments

-High Quality search (highlighting in meta information and/or in attachments)

-Document history

-User Administration with role models

-Support of a user defined knowledge process

-Workflow for a knowledge document release

-Web application for intranet or internet