SharePoint Discussion Board Feature can make your SharePoint look and act like a real Discussion Board. You no longer need to purchase a separate Discussion Board solution, or custom develop one, and then try to integrate that with your SharePoint deployment. With a little help from KWizCom you can enjoy real Discussion Board functionality.

It will provide a full set of familiar internet Discussion Board features that you can easily customize to match the look & feel of your SharePoint implementation.
SharePoint forum is just another type of list template which enables saving posts and replies.

The gap between the SharePoint forum lists and real Discussion Boards services (like those available on the internet) is quite big, and includes some very basic and critical missing features such as:
1. There is no discussion board index that enables managing multiple discussion boards under groups/subjects.
2. Editing capabilities are very limited
3. No ability to control the visibility of specific discussion boards
4. No out-of-the-box ability to manage abusive/helpful posts
5. No discussion board statistics
6. Limited Look N feel - SharePoint forums look like lists...very far from Internet-style forums.
7. SharePoint Discussion Board Feature Features:
8. Easier to use, slick, internet-style discussion boards interface
9. Display discussion board statistics
10. Forum Index (Group discussion boards by subject)
11. Ability to publish a discussion board
12. Enable searching discussion boards in topics, posts, author and easily define the search scope – all embedded in the discussion boards interface.
13. Manage abusive posts
14. RSS Subscriptions at the discussion board level
15. RSS Subscriptions at the discussion thread (topic) level
16. Display top contributors by post count, by answers and by helpful posts (as judged by other users)
17. Display discussion summary statistics (forum count, thread count, post count, last post info)
18. Advanced editing capabilities: Emoticons, Flash, movie clips and Silverlight support, easily attach files and more
19. Central management of multiple forums distributed across multiple sites
20. Fully customizable through CSS and user controls
21. Control users' ability to edit/delete posts per discussion board
22. Display relative timestamps (e.g. "Posted 2 hours 30 minutes ago")
23. Cross-browser
24. Multi-lingual

Requirements:
* SharePoint Server

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $849.00, you can free download and get a free trial.