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    What is MindTouch TCS?

    It’s a cloud-based social knowledge base that your customers will actually love using. The simple wiki-like interface makes MindTouch TCS perfect for creating product help communities.

    MindTouch TCS Video Overview

    Key Benefits

    • Lower your customer support costs. Average cost of a support phone call - $155. Average cost of customer finding their solution via your MindTouch TCS documentation - $0.05. You do the math.
    • Juice your search engine ranking (SEO). Many of the tedious SEO tasks that are commonly overlooked or time consuming are automated by MindTouch TCS.
    • Create more engaged and loyal customers. Easily collaborate with contributors within and beyond the corporate firewall, because it takes a team to create the best documentation.
    • Increase your lead generation. MindTouch customers report at least a 10% increase in leads generated from their MindTouch powered documentation.
    • Sell and market better with improved usability. Documentation is a critical step in your prospect's due diligence. The improved navigation, search and quality of content delivered by MindTouch converts more of these prospects to customers.
    • On-point contextual help articles. Bring your self-server support docs to your users when they need them the most. MindTouch Contextual Help is your newest competitive differentiator.
    • Collaborative (Multi-user) Content Authoring Collaborative (Multi-user) Content Authoring. Collaborative (Multi-user) Content Authoring.

      Collaborative (Multi-user) Content Authoring

      Watch a quick video MindTouch TCS provides easy-to-use, wiki-like collaborative authoring that provides an elegant experience for co-creating with authors, subject matter experts, and even your community of users. This includes a complete audit trail and revision history that allows you to view or roll back edits. Site administrators have a robust set of permissioning and security controls.

    • Workflows and Moderation

      Workflows and Moderation

      Watch a quick video In addition to the robust out-of-the-box administrative capabilities for permissioning, blocking, banning and governing users, groups, and content, MindTouch offers additional tools for creating workflows and content moderation that allow staged publishing and the ability to moderate community member contributions.

    • Community Scoring and Feedback Community Scoring and Feedback

      Community Scoring and Feedback

      Watch a quick video Community Scoring is one of the simplest ways to interact with your users. In a click, users can score and comment on your content providing you with valuable feedback that informs your product help strategy, product marketing, sales, and product development.

    • Adaptive Search Adaptive Search Adaptive Search

      Adaptive Search

      Just like Google, your users' behavior has a wealth of intelligence that should inform search. With MindTouch Adaptive Search, your content search algorithm gets smarter by learning from your users.

    • Content Curation Analytics Content Curation Analytics Content Curation Analytics

      Content Curation Analytics

      Watch a quick video Your customers have a lot to teach you and now you can listen. Analyze your documentation by quality, aging and customer search behavior in aggregate or by specific topics. What are your unique selling propositions? Have you covered these topics with quality and currency? Are these discoverable? Now you’ll know. With MindTouch Curation Analytics you're given real-time insight.

    • Social Logins

      Social Logins

      Make registration and sign in a breeze for your community users, and a powerful relationship builder for your business. Our social login feature offers the most options for people to connect with your social knowledge base using established identities from more than 24 providers including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google and AOL. Now you can rapidly grow your community in the most friction-free way possible.

    • Self-Organizing Content Self-Organizing Content

      Self-Organizing Content

      Watch a quick video As your help content and documentation grows it can become difficult to organize. This makes it hard for your users to navigate and discover. Also, it makes updating and maintaining content more challenging. This is why we built our Intelligent Documentation Framework (IDF). IDF is a flexible and completely customize-able framework to make your content self-organizing.

    • Notifications Notifications

      Notifications

      Watch a quick video MindTouch adapts to your processes and systems so you don’t have to change. Users can message each other from page comments with Twitter-like microblogging. Page and hierarchies can also be configured to message users in a click.

    • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

      Search Engine Optimization

      When customers or prospects search the Internet you want them to find you. MindTouch TCS is Google (search engine) ready. Many of the tedious SEO tasks that are commonly overlooked or time consuming are automated by MindTouch TCS. Also, we’ve made it really easy for even non-technical users to implement SEO best practices.

    • Desktop, Office, and Application Connectors Desktop, Office, and Application Connectors Preview Pages

      Desktop, Office, and Application Connectors

      We have a rich set of desktop tools for Microsoft Windows. This allows drag-and-drop, and in-place editing. Also, there are many common application and database connectors available for popular CRM applications and databases.

    • Cloud Delivered

      Cloud Delivered

      With our scalable cloud hosting you can mature from a workgroup to millions of daily visitors. You focus on growing your community and managing your content and we will handle your backups, upgrades, and security.

    • LDAP/AD and Permissioning LDAP/AD and Permissioning

      LDAP/Active Directory Authentication and Permissioning

      It’s easy to configure your LDAP or Active Directory with MindTouch so that you can expose selected groups and users. This can be used in conjunction with or in exclusion to the native user and group management in MindTouch. You will also find very granular permission and governance capabilities.

    • Standards Compliant

      Standards Compliant

      Once you connect to or author in MindTouch, your content is more portable than ever before. Content is available programmatically via REST interfaces and all content is stored as XML. Also, thanks to our API-First approach it’s pretty easy to expose your content in a variety of places: write once, use often.

    • API-First

      API-First

      MindTouch has pioneered Web Oriented Architectures (WOA). This  is the application of RESTful design principles to open web standards (HTTP/XML/JSON). It provides a lot of benefits for our users. One aspect of this is that 100% of MindTouch is exposed over REST interfaces. Meaning you can easily extend MindTouch or expose data and behavior in other applications and systems.

    • Development Platform Development Platform

      Development Platform

      MindTouch is a powerful development platform for novice and experienced programmers. Our WOA combined with JQuery and our sand-boxed scripting language (DekiScript) provides a sophisticated development environment. You can build applications, package and share them with other users all from MindTouch pages. Also, site admins can govern access to users and groups.