It is able to work with any internal or external information, thus it provides a solution for users not wishing to subscribe to Dialog s content services. However, it also broadens the capabilities of those organizations which wish to combine their Dialog content feeds with their internal data, and other external sources such as World Wide Web information to provide a broader knowledge-based strategy. With those in place, organizations could spider their own databases and meld searching of the Web with internal documents. Snyder said that they could also customize spiders to move through barriers, e.g. by offering authenticated passwords to reach external, commercial data sources. Currently k-working can work with databases created using Lotus Notes, Microsoft SQL Server, or Oracle, and external sources such as the Web and Dialog data.
Organizations pay by module.