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We are also seeing a growing trend for companies to provide their customers access to information with online self help tools. Organizing your information for easy retrieval is essential to be competitive in this marketplace. Additional Article Information: =============================== 358 Words; formatted to 65 Characters per Line Distribution Date and Time: 2006-08-22 13:00:00 Written By: Anne Sych Copyright: 2006 Contact Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For more free-reprint articles by Anne Sych, please visit: http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/d/index.shtml#Anne_Sych ============================================= Special Notice For Publishers and Webmasters: ============================================= TEXT Copy-and-Paste and HTML Copy-and-Paste Versions Of Article Are Available at: http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/db/s/boost-productivity-with-knowledge-bases.shtml#get_code If you use this article on your website or in your ezine, We Want To Know About It. 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They found that knowledge workers, some of the industries highest paid workers, spent about 20% of their day looking for information. In the American workforce, that translates to about 400 hours per year/per worker. The IDC further noted that about half of that time spent searching resulted in the workers (employees) still not being able to find the information they were looking for. Imagine"¦ 200 hours per worker (per year) of wasted time, or put another way, your employees wasting about 10% of their workday. The blessing and the curse of the "Information Age" is that managers now have at their disposal a wealth of information. Organizing, storing and retrieving this information effectively requires a strong knowledge base system. Knowledge base systems can typically be used for internal and external support. Internal support systems store company knowledge to be retrieved by management and staff. Administrator settings that are easily configured allow for optimum functionality such as flexible permissions controls, workflow, article review, etc. External support systems for customer self help should integrate with your existing web site and be easy for your customers to navigate. Ease of use, advanced search capabilities and the ability to rate articles are essential system features. Knowledge base software systems are usually priced based on the number of administrators who will be managing the system. It pays to research the many features that are available to ensure you will not soon outgrow your system. Up front spending for functionality must be weighed against revenue lost for wasted employee time. A robust knowledge management system will save your employees search time and boost their search productivity. IDC Research; January 2005; www.idc.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Anne Sych, Marketing Manager for Novo Solutions, Inc. Novo Solutions, Inc. is an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) in Virginia Beach, Virginia specializing in Customer Support Software. Free trial versions of the Novo Help Desk Software, Knowledge Base Software and suite of web-based Customer Support Solutions are available. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information. http://www.novosolutions.com/ --- END ARTICLE --- Get TEXT or HTML Copy-and-Paste Versions Of This Article at: http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/db/s/boost-productivity-with-knowledge-bases.shtml#get_code ..................................... 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