| Developer(s) | OpenRoad Communications Ltd. |
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| Stable release | 5.0.2 / November 24, 2011[1] |
| Written in | ASP.NET |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Intranet, knowledge management, blog, wiki |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.thoughtfarmer.com |
ThoughtFarmer is a commercial social intranet software[2] product developed by OpenRoad Communications Ltd. in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
ThoughtFarmer is collaborative enterprise 2.0 software built on ASP.NET, for on-premise use behind the firewall.[3] ThoughtFarmer is designed to be a turnkey solution to reduce implementation time. ThoughtFarmer is recommended for Microsoft environments that can take advantage of its single sign-on with Windows Authentication, integration with Microsoft Exchange, and synchronization with Active Directory.[3]
ThoughtFarmer appeared in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Social Software in 2008 and has appeared in Forrester analyst reports on social software and enterprise 2.0.[4][5]
ThoughtFarmer was originally created in 2005 as an intranet solution for Intrawest Placemaking, a division of Intrawest.[6] The goal of the project was to replace the existing static intranet with a site that would "turn every user into a contributor", inspired by Wikipedia.[7] Since then, ThoughtFarmer progressed through several iterations and was developed into product that has been adopted by organizations around the world including MEC,[8] Electronic Arts, eHarmony, Guardian Media Group, Penn State University, and WATG.[9][10]
Early versions of ThoughtFarmer included features such as profiles, commenting, tagging, search, recent activity tracker, news feed on the home page, document management, wiki-style content editing and revision control, Microsoft integration, organizational chart, rich-text editor, and an employee directory.[11]
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ThoughtFarmer version 3.0 saw the addition of blogs, discussion forums, calendars, and RSS feeds. Multilingual support with a localized interface and automatic translation features were also added.[12][13]
ThoughtFarmer 3.5 added a Microsoft Exchange integration[9] feature that supported archiving of e-mail distribution lists on the intranet, as well as an improved employee directory with filters, and tree-view navigation.[14] As of June 3, 2009, the latest supported languages for ThoughtFarmer 3.5 are English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Dutch.[3]
ThoughtFarmer 3.6 was released on January 13, 2010. Version 3.6 saw the introduction of three new enhancements: Personalized Home Pages, Search Filters and customizable Groups.[15]
ThoughtFarmer 3.7 was released on June 1, 2010. Version 3.7 introduced forms based authentication, multi-file uploading, and improved pasting from Microsoft Word.[16]
ThoughtFarmer 4.0 was released on Dec 8, 2010, and this is the latest stable version. Version 4.0 offers improved attachment editing, intranet analytics, a new API, and a feature to convert Microsoft Word documents into HTML pages. Version 4.0 also introduced integration between ThoughtFarmer and Microsoft SharePoint 2010.[17]
According to the ThoughtFarmer home page, basic server requirements[18] are as follows:
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