Gates wants to let you in your co-workers' heads | CNET News.com
Brains still rule...Gates wants to let you in your co-workers' heads | CNET News.com: "The next release of Microsoft's SharePoint server software will have a feature called Knowledge Network that automatically builds profiles of employees and their areas of expertise.
That's important because a ton of business data is stored in brains, rather than hard drives. Estimates are that anywhere from 50 percent to 80 percent of a company's institutional knowledge is inside of its employees' heads..
Microsoft's technology tries to ease that task by looking through workers' e-mail and other data and then automatically generating working profiles.
The software also takes a page from social networking sites in the way that workers get matched up with in-house experts. The software can see if the information seeker and expert have any worker friends in common who might be able to make an introduction."
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