Single Integrated Solution – Community Forum is an integrated platform. Other competitor’s solutions will almost always require either building from the ground-up or working to integrate the various components together. A key competitive advantage of Community Forum is the integrated capabilities of our blogs, forums, file sharing, photo sharing, video and more.

Cost effective way to increase site traffic - Sources, such as Google ads, work great for driving in interested customers, but social networking tools can almost guarantee your site's traffic to increase exponentially. We also have the business intelligence tools to help you mine your data to help you understand your community. In other words, we ensure you can measure your return on investment.

Customized Application - We publish and share our source code with customers. We offer both software that you can run within your own hosting facility or Software as Service solutions. More importantly as a Customized Application solution with 70+ employees we've built the support, services and infrastructure to help you be successful.

Designers and developers love it - We've made Community Forum friendly for designers and developers to easily change, extend and enhance the functionality. With simple to use web based tools and support for low-level design changes, Community Forum can be made to fit perfectly with your existing site's design. From a developer's perspective Community Forum is designed to be built-upon.

Market vision – We understand the “community, social networking, etc.” market better than just about all of our competitors. We were the first to market with an integrated community platform and have demonstrated the ability to build an actual business as opposed to simply burning investment capital. We’d bring this ability to execute to bear on all our relationships and can help assist you with developing, building and growing a loyal customer base for your product and services.

Community Forum makes it unbelievably easy to create public communities. It includes all of the tools necessary for managing and moderating all incoming content. Additional tools, such as private areas of the site, can be used to offer value-added content to visitors.

Building private communities where only a select set of visitors or members are allowed access is easily accomplished with Community Forum’s unique and flexible permission and site registration options. Using these tools, community managers can easily manage and create communities within communities with varying degrees of privacy; all driven by the types of permissions granted to site members.

Forums, also known as message boards, are a core application built on top of the Community Forum platform. The features and capabilities are discussed in more details later in this document.

Community Forum has a rich and extensive back-end control panel that gives community managers all of the tools they need to manage the applications supported on top of the Community Forum platform.

Each application within Community Forum exposes its own set of permissions that can then be used to configure how visitors will access the applications managed by Community Server.

With a unique permissions model, control is given to the community manager to manage and delegate nearly all application capabilities. These unique permissions allow for Community Forum to meet the needs of the most complex permission delegation requirements of nearly any community.

Extensive moderation tools give moderators tools for managing and approving all content that gets published into Community Server. Moderation tools include: moving, approving, deleting, editing and more. Web discussion moderation allows for approval and work-flow before content is published.

Community Forum implements all of the Microsoft recommended security best practices to ensure the application protects user data as aggressively as possible.

Requirements for write permissions on the web server directory are optional for web server hardening.

Permission and capabilities such as moderation can be delegated allowing the community manager to trust other members of the community with various tasks.

All pages within the application reply on declarative server controls with no“in-line” code to ensure that design tools and designers do not accidentally modify core code or functionality.