IT's a-LIVE! KnowledgeTree Does SaaS Document Management

By John Conroy | Oct 11. 2007

Tags: dms, document management, enterprise cms, knowledge tree

Cape-Town vendor Knowledge Tree has just released KnowledgeTreeLive, which offers users document management in a web browser on an on-demand basis.

The new subscriber-based service gives users the opportunity to harness KnowledgeTree CMS capabilities in a secure online environment, without going to the trouble of installing and maintaining the software on-site.

Features include:

Document management
Collaboration features such as document versioning and auditing, metadata and content
searching, workflow tracking
Tagging and tag clouds
RSS feeds support and email triggers
Built using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure and rPath, if you're really that interested. KnowledgeTree runs off PHP
No premise software to install/maintain. Ideal if you run your business out of cyber cafes

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The product is aimed at small/medium businesses or equivalent, and will cost users US$ 30 per month per user (minimum 5 users). You can take a trial run here.

So why do you need this product? Why not just go and download the software version? Daniel Chalef, COO of KnowledgeTree, explains:

“We believe that a significant number of users of the free on-premise software would prefer to utilize a cost-effective hosted document management solution. Being open source means that our customers have peace of mind that they won't be locked in to a proprietary service."

KnowledgeTree promises to secure, share, track and manage the documents and records you depend on. The product is renowned as an effective low-cost alternative to more touted CMS vendors, particularly for those requiring less extensive solutions.

This is not to say that the software is not scalable to larger problems; I'm sure you could coordinate a mission to Mars with it; it's just that offering sensible-scale CMS to smaller enterprises is where they have found their niche thus far.

The software is open-source, and leverages the obvious advantages of a willing on-line community to keep its product razor-sharp.

So enthusiastically has KnowledgeTree embraced the open-source ethos that in July it released all of its documentation, developer guides and marketing materials under a Creative Commons contribution license.

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