TWiki is a versatile enterprise wiki that not only supports publishing and sharing content and knowledge, but which also supports the development of mission critical and other business applications.
TWiki is the leading enterprise wiki on the planet.
TWiki is an open source software product that has been developed by hundreds of developers over the past 9 years. In total, there have been hundreds of man years of development in the product and related plug-ins.
TWiki is used by individuals, teams and has spread throughout some companies to have more than 10,000 users.
TWiki allows your employees to rapidly build new websites, documents, and applications and to share them with whichever specific audiences they wish to with full password control.
TWiki can be installed quickly and runs reliably. It can become an information backbone for your company.
Almost anyone in business, government, education or non-profits who uses computers and wishes to share information and knowledge and collaborate with others.
- Small businesses of as few as 2 or 3 people can leverage TWiki.
- Medium sized businesses with up to 1000 employees can use TWiki.
- More than five global enterprises have more than 10,000 employees using TWiki today.
TWiki is used by many IT departments, development groups, marketing, PR, finance, sales and corporate executive offices.
TWiki offers you benefits in these primary areas:
- Effective collaboration: Help your teams organize and follow through on almost any project or effort through seamless communication on TWiki.
- Easy knowledge management: TWiki brings the dream of integrated, natural, user driven knowledge management into reality. TWiki has spread to 4 million users without a penny spent on sales or marketing. It spread virally through satisfied users. These users build amazing knowledge banks in their organizations.
- Scalability: TWiki scales to support large communities of users and large knowledge bases.
- Proven business application platform. Most wikis are only made for publishing information. TWiki was architected and built as a robust application platform in addition. You can not only build applications at much lower costs than through other methods, but these applications are completely flexible and can be changed at any time with appropriate password access. Your employees and managers can build flexible, living applications on TWiki.
Certified TWiki takes the excellent open source software and wraps it with technology to make it easier to install, support and upgrade. Also, we have tested the system with various configurations and plug-ins for reliability so it is "certified" and supportable.
TWiki has already been integrated with many other applications through an extensive set of plug-ins developed by the extended TWiki community.
The simplest form of integration is through hyperlinks or URL's to other systems. Deeper integration is possible using plug-ins.
Peter Thoeny started developing the TWiki open source wiki when he was working for Take Five Software back in 1998. At first it was called T5Wiki but that name was too long so Peter coined "TWiki" as an abbreviate name and it stuck.
You can pronounce it however you want, as long as you use the product
The standard pronunciation is "twiki" like "wiki." Some people like to call the product t-wiki like "tee wiki." Others like to call it "tweekie." We call it twiki like wiki.
Because many companies want a company to stand behind an open source product to provide service and support. We saw a good business opportunity in building a company to do just that. The original founders also all have a deep belief that people are basically good and that collaboration tools help people get more good things done. We can't think of a better collaboration tool than TWiki and wanted to share it with the world by promoting both the free open source version and the certified and supported version.
TWiki Birdie is the official company mascot. She is a beautiful four year old caique featured here on
Wikipedia. She has high intelligence and excellent social skills and is good at collaborating in having fun. She sometimes hangs upside down or lies on her back for kicks.
