In December, Lotus announced the release of the K-station Web portal. Together, the products offer an enterprise-capable knowledge management solution. To understand how the Lotus Knowledge Discovery System brings together the Lotus knowledge management strategy and the ability to build relationships between people, places, and things, it's important to understand the individual functions of both K-station and the Discovery Server and how they work together. This is a giant step forward in allowing you to develop your own content that you can access from anywhere. Community places provide an area for groups of people to collaborate on information.
Community places are either public or team-oriented.
Public community places are open for anyone to join, and team oriented community places require an invitation. Doc, Image, Text, Microsoft Exchange 2000, Hotmail, and of course the Discovery Server. K-station is based on the use of open and available standards. The Discovery Server can best be characterized as a search engine that's capable of analyzing the relationships between content, people, topics, and activity.