KnowledgeTree is pleased to announce the availability of a new version of KnowledgeTreeLive, a subscription based software as a service (SaaS) offering that eliminates the need for hardware or in-house IT expertise.

KnowledgeTreeLive now offers all the features available in the on-site version of KnowledgeTree 3.6.1, including the Microsoft® Office® Add-in, which allows users to view, edit, save and email documents in the KnowledgeTree repository from within Office applications. For the totally mobile workforce, KnowledgeTreeLive also integrates with the Zoho Office Suite, making it possible to edit documents without desktop software.

KnowledgeTreeLive enables:

• Secure access to documents across the organization from anywhere in the world at any time
• Enterprise-class document management functionality without the cost, administration and maintenance of an on-site solution
• Collaboration among geographically distributed employees
• Integration with third-party applications via rich APIs

To find out more, visit the KnowledgeTreeLive product page.

Thanks to the dedication and support of our community, KnowledgeTree has been chosen as a finalist in the Best Commercial Open Source Project category at this year's SourceForge Community Choice Awards.

To vote for KnowledgeTree, visit the SourceForge Community Choice Awards page, vote for us in the "Best Commercial Open Source Project" category, and confirm your vote by clicking on the confirmation link sent to your email address.

Don't delay - vote now!

Want to meet the team that make things happen? We compiled a short video for the awards - let us know what you think...

I've already introduced the new sales and marketing team members. Now for some insight into the new engineers who help make KnowledgeTree tick:

Mark Holtzhausen, Senior Software Engineer: Mark is primarily a PHP and Javascript OOP developer. His main interest lies in making the most of Web 2.0 type technologies to make use of the interconnectedness of the web. Mark is passionate about standards and microformats. Twitter; LinkedIn

Prince Mbekwa, Senior Software Engineer: Prince was team leader and manager at the Free Software Innovation Unit (University of the Western Cape) for 6 years where he was active in building the African Virtual Open Initiative and Resources project community. He was also an ICT expert for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission - IOC (UNESCO). Free and Open Source is his passion...

Paul Barrett, Software Engineer: Paul comes from a background in C++ and PHP programming, having worked in both application development and web based services development. He is also a hobbyist composer of eclectic electronica music when time allows.

Jarrett Jordaan, Software Engineer: Jarrett has been a PHP developer since 2005 and has significant experience in the content management space. In his spare time, he does research on time table problems. Ohloh

Serge Meunier, Software Engineer: Serge loves programming, no matter what language involved. His girlfriend and family ensure that he stays well-balanced. He also enjoys fencing, astronomy and ballroom dancing. Twitter   [Read more]

2009 has been an exciting year for KnowledgeTree thus far. In addition to some exciting new product developments and innovations, we have a host of new, experienced and energetic members to welcome to the team. Starting with sales, marketing and admin, new team members include:

Tim Spink, Vice President of Sales: Tim brings more than 18 years of software sales experience to KnowledgeTree, having built and managed several direct and indirect sales teams in the Americas and abroad. Prior to KnowledgeTree Tim was a Sr. Director with rPath Inc. and Vice President of Sales at Solarwinds Inc. (NYSE: SWI). Tim has a deep understanding of Open Source technology gained at Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise. During his 6 years with Red Hat he held various sales management and director positions globally. Prior to Red Hat Inc., Tim held sales management positions at MicroAge Inc. and Merisel Inc. LinkedIn

Rebecca Hirschfield, Product Marketing: Rebecca is a 15+ year veteran of the technology industry with significant experience in product marketing. She joins the Raleigh team after recent employment with rPath and Peopleclick. In her spare time she runs a volunteer group that brings certified therapy dogs and children together for reading activities. www.rebeccah.com; www.seespotread.com

Sharon Taylor, Sales Executive: Sharon, from Surrey in the UK, has significant experience working in startups. Originally a Chartered Surveyor, she worked in a sales position for 6 years at one of the UK's top 10 dealerships. She also enjoys thinking really hard about going to gym...   [Read more]

It's time for the annual SourceForge Community Choice awards and we need your help to get KnowledgeTree nominated! The more nominations we receive, the better our chances of being a finalist.

Follow the link below, and nominate KnowledgeTree in the category of Best Commercial Open Source Project:

Nominate KnowledgeTree!

If we win a nomination, then we can potentially go on to win the category award. Thanks in advance for your help. But hurry! Nominations close on May 29.

In today's economic climate, small to medium-sized businesses are under even more pressure to speed up and simplify core business processes, and to do more with less.

With this in mind, Colosa, developer of commercial open source business process management and workflow software, ProcessMaker, is hosting a webinar to explore the integration between KnowledgeTree document management software and ProcessMaker BPM.

The webinar will discuss:

• the technical and functional aspects of the mashup;
• the integration from an end-user perspective;
• how the KnowledgeTree-ProcessMaker integration simplifies and streamlines document-based processes to boost efficiency.

When is the webinar?

Thursday, May 21 2009, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Who should attend?

This webinar is ideal for ProcessMaker and / or KnowledgeTree users who are looking to maximize the business benefits of both of these applications.

What is the KnowledgeTree-ProcessMaker Mashup?

The combination of ProcessMaker BPM software, which simplifies workflow through the automation of paper-based processes, with KnowledgeTree’s powerful open source document management software, delivers a tool that will allow businesses to bring together workflow and document management capabilities to design and manage business processes, and to seamlessly file, store and retrieve mission-critical documents.

Find out more

How to register

Register at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/167206451 to book your seat.

This Community release includes a number of enhancements:

• New core API and RESTful interface to facilitate integration with other applications and services
• New text extraction engine to provide:
  (1) greater UTF-8 support (ideographic character search)
  (2) improved cross-platform stability
• Improvements to search and indexing
• Upgraded stack components (Windows and Linux - installers and upgrade installers)
• Various minor improvements to performance and stability

For more information on the release, please view the release notes.

Download KnowledgeTree 3.6 Community Edition

KnowledgeTree Hot Folders* for Windows is a simple, high-volume integration interface for third-party applications, such as back-office document imaging workflow applications, fax servers, and many other applications that can write documents directly to a Windows® file share.

The new Hot Folders release includes a few new features and a number of fixes:

• Support for Vista 32-bit (in addition to Windows XP/2003 support)
• Folder uploads (IWI-240) - upload an entire folder structure (including all documents) into KnowledgeTree
• Start workflows via the XML file (IW-223) - specify KnowledgeTree workflows in document metadata files in order to automatically apply a specific workflow to documents as you upload

For more information on the release, please view the release notes.

*KnowledgeTree Hot Folders is a commercial feature, and not available to community members.

Congratulations to iNET Process for receiving the SugarForge Project of the Month award for December 2008 for their work on iNETDocs. The iNETDocs module, clocking up 1,224 downloads to date, offers the power of KnowledgeTree Document Management Software within SugarCRM.

• View the SugarForge Project of the Month interview with iNET Process
• View the iNETDocs SugarForge project page for more detail about the plugin

A few months ago, AIIM President John Mancini , wrote a blog entry highlighting the business value of document management software. The facts were extracted from Pam Doyle’s (Pam is from Fujitsu’s scanner group and a long-time AIIM ECM and ERM trainer) presentation at the AIIM road show in Chicago, and is of particular interest when considering the current economic climate:

1. Companies spend $20 in labor to file a document, $120 in labor to find a misfiled document, and $220 in labor to reproduce a lost document.
2. 7.5 percent of all documents get lost; 3 percent of the remainder get misfiled.
3. Professionals spend 5 – 15 percent of their time reading information, but up to 50 percent looking for it.
4. The average document photocopied 19 times.
5. There are over 4 trillion paper documents in the U.S. alone and they are growing at a rate of 22% per year (PricewaterhouseCoopers).
6. Corporate users received an average of 18 megabytes (MB) of e-mail per day in 2007; E-mail is expected to grow to over 28 MB per day by 2011.
7. Users send and receive an average of 133 e-mail messages per day (Radicati Group).
8. A single FAX machine costs $6,200 per year (Captaris); the average time to manually FAX a document is 8 minutes.
9. The average cost to send a package via courier service is between $8 and $15.
10. The cost of office space has increased 19% (Office Space Across the World 2008).