Knowledge Capture Using Rhaptos.
Your employees' knowledge is your company's most valuable resource.

Rhaptos is an open-source software platform developed for and by the online education repository Connexions. Rhaptos is a collaborative authoring and publishing system that is an ideal solution for capturing, maintaining and disseminating corporate knowledge. Originally developed to support an online repository of open-source educational content, the Rhaptos software system has features applicable to three different classes of users: authors, instructors, and learners.

Authors can

• Import word or open office documents

• Import math heavy documents in LaTeX

• Edit online using a simple "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) XML editor

• Fix math with an integrated equation editor

• Enhance content with a wide array of audio, video, images, and other media types

• Edit and derive copies of previously authored content

Instructors can

• Search a fully indexed repository for previously created content

• Rapidly build collections using previously created, derived, or newly created content

• Present collections both online and in print

Learners can

• Use keywords to search a fully indexed repository for relevant content

• View training documents either online, on CD or, in-print.

• Explore a corporate knowledge base for answers

• View prior versions of module, with permanently referenceable versions.

The Rhaptos web-based authoring and publication system comes packed with a wide of array of tools that lets users easily create, maintain and explore a digital corporate knowledge base.

Corporate Benefits
By encouraging your employees to contribute to a company knowledge base,  your company can save time and money. When your employees leave your company, they don't have to take all their knowledge with them. Instead their on-the-job expertise can be compiled in your own Rhaptos repository. Similarly, these knowledge "chunks" can be developed into operation manuals, training pamphlets, and other marketable texts. In addition to the previously mentioned benefits, Rhaptos can save you time by creating a fully indexed database that is easily searched allowing employees quick access to answers and information about common issues.

The benefits of a corporate database are great, and with Rhaptos and UniqU's services maintaining one doesn't have to be difficult. Please contact us today to find out the best way to begin your company's knowledge capture program.
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