Elium, previously referred to as Knowledge Plaza, is a

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used for enterprise

knowledge sharing Knowledge sharing is an activity through which knowledge (namely, information, skills, or expertise) is exchanged among people, friends, peers, families, communities (for example, Wikipedia), or within or between organizations. It bridges the ind ...

within organisations. It supports use cases for

knowledge management Knowledge management (KM) is the collection of methods relating to creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization. It refers to a multidisciplinary approach to achieve organisational objectives by making ...

, social bookmarking,

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, wikis and internal social network. It was initially designed as an information management tool for

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s and is often used for collaborative research projects,

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, information brokerage, etc. The vendor's company, Whatever S.A., has its headquarters based at the

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(

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, Belgium) and offices in

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, Switzerland. In September 2013, it announced the acquisition of Swiss social publishing company Hyperweek. In an annual benchmark carried out by French consultancy firm Lecko (previously named USEO), Elium is referred to as the pioneer of social knowledge management tools amongst the more generic family of

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. The analysis concludes that Elium strikes a balance between a traditional

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and more community-orientated environments such as Jive SBS. In March 2017, Knowledge Plaza changed its name to Elium. In August 2017, Elium announced the closing of a Series A funding round for €4 million led by Serena Capital in collaboration with S.R.I.W.

Awards

* In May 2011, Elium received the "Belgian Start-up of the year" Award from Belgian's leading ICT Magazine Datanews. * In October 2010, Elium was nominated KMWorld Promise Award 2010 finalist. * In June 2010, Elium won the prize for the most innovative knowledge management tool at KM Forum conference in Paris. * In 2008, Elium won the Prix Lionel Van den Bossche 2008 award given each year to a Belgian innovative enterprise.

Features

Elium applies a collective classification mechanism to all information formats including websites (like Delicious), as well as documents, contacts, e-mails, book references and wikis – as underlined by the

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. Feature set: * Combined full-text

social search Social search is a behavior of retrieving and searching on a social searching engine that mainly searches user-generated content such as news, videos and images related search queries on social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram an ...

and

faceted navigation Faceted search is a technique that involves augmenting traditional search techniques with a faceted navigation system, allowing users to narrow down search results by applying multiple filters based on faceted classification of the items. It is som ...

Bookmarklet A bookmarklet is a bookmark stored in a web browser that contains JavaScript commands that add new features to the browser. They are stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page. Bookmarklets are usually smal ...

for adding/sharing/organizing websites * Pipelines for adding/sharing/organizing emails and their attachments * Workspaces and communities for various security/visibility settings * Collaborative content creation (wiki pages) * Full export and summary of information packages * Custom e-mail digests and alerts * Custom

vertical search A vertical search engine is distinct from a general web search engine, in that it focuses on a specific segment of online content. They are also called specialty or topical search engines. The vertical content area may be based on topicality, media ...

engines based on shared bookmarks *

Tag management * Tag management a posteriori Tags can be gardened down-hill (after they have entered the data set) by * Renaming tags (e.g. typos) * Deleting tags * Moving tags to correct facets (e.g. an organization name) * Merging tags (e.g. single and p ...

abilities that mix a company-defined

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and user-generated

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. KP's approach was described by

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as "working wonderfully".

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.elium.com Knowledge management Internet Protocol based network software Collective intelligence Proprietary wiki software Document management systems Content management systems Professional networks