Inmagic has released the latest version of Presto, an application that enables non-technical business users to create and manage KnowledgeNets, Social Knowledge Networks (SKN) that are tied to a specific business objective.

Presto 3.5 delivers enhanced functionality to customers that include discussion forums, which facilitate topic-specific collaboration; extended single sign-on (SSO), which authenticates third-party applications; and improved overall performance optimization for large enterprise organisations.

“Security and collaboration are at the heart of Enterprise 2.0, but achieving a balance between access and control to drive employee-based innovation has been a tough nut to crack,” said Dan Keldsen, co-founder and Principal of Information Architected.

“Social and control often times seem like opposing forces inside the firewall, but Inmagic Presto offers organisations the opportunity to set their own unique social boundaries using Social Knowledge Networks. When individuals can work within the constraints of their organization's culture and processes, social balance is no longer a pipe dream. It’s the new social normal.”

Recent enhancements to Presto include:
Discussion forums. Connects collaboration activities (e.g.: commenting, rating, tagging) to a specific process or topic (e.g.: proposal development, sales enablement, competitive analysis), and retains discussion details, unlike e-mail.
Content relations. Establishes a one-to-one or one-to-many relationship between Presto objects (e.g.: a contract may reference and link to multiple P.O.s)
“Social Security” through Extended SSO. Provides striated levels of access to information based on user authorisation and privileges, creating cohesive security across KnowledgeNet repositories.
Enterprise-scale performance optimisation. Enhances search performance for large organizations with substantial repositories (>1M records), and ingestion performance is improved for data loading.

“As adoption of Social Knowledge Networks continues to accelerate, Inmagic continues to enhance and extend capabilities to meet needs and requirements of our customers,” says Bob Warren, Vice President of Products at Inmagic.

“Presto 3.5 extends the application of Social Knowledge Networks through KnowledgeNets, putting collaborative relationships between experts and staff in the context of business objectives, and improves performance and security for a more holistic approach to information access and collaboration.”