Wiki News & Articles

Enterprise collaboration need not be complicated, as the developers of TWiki would want to establish. With the latest release of TWiki, users can run a document management system, knowledge base or project development space within an intranet or the Internet without the need to learn extensive programming skills. The latest release of TWiki, at version 5.1, introduces usability enhancements, improved profile pages and automatic backup features.

eTouch (news, site) has announced the release of version 4.4 of enterprise wiki application SamePage, which a host of new features, including drag-and-drop, social network integration and document management.

Wikipedia is one of the best examples of online collaboration on the web, but wikis in the enterprise often find it harder to gain traction and stick in users minds. Here's a look at what's new with one wiki platform that's getting some enterprise attention: Atlassian Confluence (news, site).

If you’re not quite convinced that SharePoint 2010 will be your next technology true love, and are still on the prowl for an intranet solution sporting collaboration capabilities, then Intranet DASHBOARD (iD) could be the candidate you're after. Here's our review.

For SMB’s this week there were a number of new releases that should make it easier to work while mobile. Apart from a mobile Business By Design from SAP, Skype is now available to a limited extent on Android v2.1 and above. IBM has also been busy with online tax filing and hosted e-mail.

There have been some interesting moves in the SMB voice technology market this week with Google making Google Voice freely available and the release of eVocie’s Blackberry App. From a security point of view, research from CDW indicates that many companies are not going secure their data until the very worst happens.

 If you don't want to go down the SharePoint route, Atlassian (news, site) could be the alternative you're looking for

 A company with web tools for everyone, Zoho (news, site) adds another string to its bow with its own portal production package.

This week Google addressed the concerns about issues raised by information commissioners in ten different countries over privacy and Buzz, while data protection in federal agencies is also a concern.

Alterian (news, site) has just bought Techrigy, a social media and analytics software developer, which only goes to show that if companies don’t have all the tools they need, it's a smart idea to buy a company that does have the tools instead of starting from scratch in-house.

In Alterian's, a provider of integrated marketing solutions, case, the unspecified sum of money involved in the deal will probably have put quite a dent in their £ 6.1 million (US$ 10.1m) pre-tax profits from the last financial year.

But both seem happy. It was a meeting of minds rather than a boardroom bloodbath they say, with the deal adding interesting new elements to the Alterian package as well as signaling a shift away from mass marketing to marketing targeted at individuals.

German company, Ontoprise launches the latest version of its open source Semantic MediaWiki+ to help improve a company's knowledgebase and make finding information and retrieval easier.

SamePage from eTouch (news, site) offers up the pleasures of social media in the formerly stuffy halls of Salesforce.com. Using all the right buzz words including blogs, wikis and forums, now staff, clients and customers can communicate better than ever before without leaving the company page.

Socialtext, a provider of social networking and collaboration software, has introduced a microblogging platform into their system. Socialtext Signals are Yammer-Twitter-like messages that allow co-workers and colleagues to stay up-to-date on the going-ons.

Two years ago, eTouch admitted that the enterprise hadn't yet grasped the concept of wikis. Since then, they've expanded their dynamic enterprise wiki to include new functionality and new deployment options. Now they add some much desired social media elements to the latest version of their enterprise wiki.

You're right, SharePoint already has a wiki component built in. And it's okay. But is there something better out there? KWizCom says their KWizCom SharePoint 2007 Wiki Plus is just what the enterprise ordered.