Lab test: Telligent Community Server 2008 spurs collaboration [Video]

Blogs, forums, and media galleries integrate with enterprise applications through Web services

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There’s little argument that Telligent’s Community Server can stand up to the rigors of hosting public-facing communities. This product is the force behind some of the biggest and most visible blogs on the Net, including MySpace, the National Football League, and National Geographic. An equal number of clients – the likes of Dell, GlaxoSmithKline, and Ernst & Young – use this platform for business-to-business and business-to-consumer communities.

With these uses out of the way, I set out to learn how well Community Server’s new Intranet Edition works inside the enterprise as a knowledge management solution.

Intranet Edition differs from the existing high-end (Enterprise) edition by including SharePoint integration via custom Web Parts, but limits single sign-on to Active Directory (Enterprise provides three types of authentication). Otherwise, there are no restrictions on the number of forums, blogs, photos, and files. You also get enterprise search and …