Enterprise information integration is a powerful concept that promises to deliver key information to all decision makers at all levels of an organization in order to support their day to day activities. It is about the integration of multiple information systems to present a unified seamless view of the information. Further, it is about contextualizing the information available for different user roles within the organization.

Topic Maps and SharePoint provides a powerful and flexible platform for collaborative information creation, and content classification, integration
and information delivery.

SharePoint provides a platform that allows users to collaborate on the creation and storage of content. However, SharePoint is still a fairly isolated and static technology in terms of the types of information it can manage, the way it integrates with other systems and the expressiveness of
relationships between information items.

Topic Maps provides a semantic information management server that supports a more flexible data model for expressing relationships between information items, powerful ability to integrate existing and new information systems and a powerful facility for searching and delivering contextual based views on corporate information.

In this presentation we present how these two technologies came together to provide an EII solution for Posten. We present the concepts, the challenges, and the way in which we overcame them.