Overview

To make large SharePoint environments successful, a governance plan has to be established in a general layer that all applications can access. In this governance layer, the business objects used in SharePoint and the relations between them must be defined and global governance rules for applications and content established.

MatchPoint is the product to help you put your governance in place. In three steps, MatchPoint provides you with configurable tools to implement governance and SharePoint applications using a reusable methodology based on semantics:

Step 1: In a global ontology you can represent your business model and thus create the important relations between business objects in SharePoint and your line of business applications.

Step 2: MatchPoint automatically connects your business model with all objects created in SharePoint based on an application logic - a dynamic, real-time "topic map" is created to help you navigate in your information base.

Step 3: The now enhanced information can be accessed from different business-relevant contexts, which allows search-based, personalized views and supports information reuse, knowledge management and decision making processes throughout the company

The first two steps are delivered in the MatchPoint Service layer and API that is common to all MatchPoint applications and can be seen as an additional functional layer to SharePoint. The third step consists of a set of 10 webparts to easily build sustainable intranet, collaboration and composite content applications.