News: Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform™

Twiki Inc. 5.0 feature focused release continues to make it a powerful application platform Twiki Inc. a leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 and Government 2.0 collaboration solutions announces availability of TWiki 5.0 available for download at twiki.org. The feature focused release continues to make it a powerful application platform. TWiki is used by more than half of the Fortune 500 and leading Government agencies with more than 60,000 installations in 130 countries and translated into 14 languages.

Twiki Inc announces Open ID integration Twiki administrators, managing existing installations can choose to install the OpenID library which is available for download immediately on twiki.org. The integration of OpenID 2.0 with the existing installation enables users with OpenID accounts on AOL, Google, Hyves, MyID.net, MyOpenID, MySpace, NTT MyDocomo, Verisign, Yahoo or any other Open ID provider to log into Twiki seamlessly.

Twiki Inc. Wins Innovator Award for Gov 2.0 Solution; Presented by CMU and NASA Twiki Inc. was recognized and awarded for demonstrating how Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform can be used by disaster management professionals to save lives and protect people.

Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform to Integrate with Box.net Twiki users will be able to collaborate using shared files and folders hosted on Box.net's content management platform.

Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform brings Pattern based Enterprise Collaboration technology to market Announcing the New Enterprise Workspaces release of the Twiki platform with customized workspaces for teams and individuals and collaborative workflow automation

Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform accelerates Enterprise 2.0 transformation for Chinese government, business and academic institutions Announcing a mutually exclusive partnership between ChinaSource, a subsidiary of Chinese Academy of Sciences (an agency of the Central Government of the Peoples Republic of China) and Twiki, Inc. to develop, market and sell Enterprise collaboration solutions in Greater China

Twiki and Tweets It being close to Halloween, I thought I would scare you with some new technology options in the collaboration world...

Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform wins Innovation Award Voted Top 3 Innovator out of 44 startups by a panel of 50 VC Firms and Investors.

Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform unites Content, Colleagues and Business Processes Twiki, Inc. announced the release of Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform version 4.3.2-1, which incorporates a variety of customer requested usability and security enhancements. Actionable Intelligence - Twiki transforms an organization’s web infrastructure into a powerful “actionable” platform.

TWiki Selected as Finalist for 2009 SourceForge Community Choice Awards TWIKI.NET, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source enterprise collaboration solutions, today announced that the TWiki Enterprise Collaboration Platform developed by the TWiki.org community has been named a finalist in the “Best Project for the Enterprise” category by the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards...

TWIKI.NET Names Jitendra Kavathekar as President and CEO TWIKI.NET, a leading provider of enterprise collaboration solutions based on the TWiki.org open source project, names Jitendra Kavathekar as its President and CEO...

TWiki Announces TWiki 4.3 General Availability TWIKI.NET announces the latest release of TWiki Community Release 4.3, delivering enhanced security, search and enterprise collaboration capabilities...

Certified TWiki 4.2 with Enterprise Social Networking TWIKI.NET announces the latest release of its Certified TWiki Virtual Appliance (CTVA) including enhanced search for office attachments, and Enterprise Social Networking functionality...

TWiki.org Now Powered by Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems sponsors servers to TWiki.org; New TWiki release 4.2 includes a new WYSIWYG editor and a SQL like query language...

TWIKI.NET releases WikiCrawler software TWIKI.NET, the leading provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, announced the release of its WikiCrawler software. Profile your wiki landscape: Use WikiCrawler to discover unmanaged information silos...

TWIKI.NET Announces Hosted TWiki Solutions TWIKI.NET, the leading provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, announced the release of its hosted Web 2.0 collaboration service named TWiki OnDemand. Many IT managers are now looking to minimize the resource overhead associated with providing Web 2.0 services to their organization...

TWIKI.NET Announces New Certified TWiki Release TWIKI.NET, a leading provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, announced the latest release of its Certified TWiki Virtual Appliance (CTVA). It includes a new administrative UI for managing a TWiki installation which makes administering a TWiki server very simple. An auto-update feature keeps the TWiki server in sync with the latest version of the Certified TWiki server software, plugins and applications...

WebChanges - News from TWIKI.NET When we launched TWIKI.NET at LinuxWorld last August in San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center, we wondered what excitement, changes, and success the future would bring, and how we could best communicate these events to customers, partners, and TWiki champions around the world. We've decided to publish this newsletter, WebChanges, to keep everyone up to date with the many things happening at TWIKI.NET...

TWIKI.NET Announces New Leadership TWIKI.NET, a leading provider of enterprise collaboration solutions, announced that Thomas Barton has joined the company as Chairman of the Board and Interim CEO. Barton replaces co-Founder Rod Beckstrom, who has left the company to become the first Director of the U.S. Government's newly created National Cyber Security Center, which will operate within the Department of Homeland Security...

TWIKI.NET Opens for Business TWIKI.NET, a company founded by Rod Beckström and Peter Thoeny, launched today at Linux World. TWIKI.NET is offering a professional, certified version of TWiki, the leading open source, enterprise wiki with more than two million users and 60,000 installations worldwide...

No Rest for the Wiki - The online tools for building collective info banks are making deeper inroads in corporations and rewriting the rules of collaboration Because there are several freely available open-source software packages like MediaWiki and TWiki, it's easy for employees to start one without even alerting the IT department. TWiki is used by companies such as Motorola (MOT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOG), and Nokia (NOK), according to a report by Ann Majchrzak and Christian Wagner...

USA: Primer: Enterprise Wiki Only one in ten businesses reportedly has a strategy for managing content-sharing Web sites. Wikis are explained at a high level. Open-source options include MediaWiki (the software behind Wikipedia) and TWiki. The article points out that wikis have a different design philosophy compared to previous generations of collaboration software. Traditionally, the database administrator only unlocks the doors for the person who is assigned to do the work, notes Peter Thoeny, the original author of TWiki. With a wiki, you delegate the security to the end users...

Most Business Tech Pros Wary About Web 2.0 Tools In Business Most business collaboration and information sharing remains mired in endless e-mail strings and scheduled conference calls. And, Enterprise 2.0 is a passel of separate products today, which helps explain why more than half of companies cite the lack of staff expertise as a major obstacle. TWiki is mentioned as part of an Enterprise 2.0 push at American Tire. In one small step, the IT team uses TWiki open source wikis to build editable documents about Sarbanes-Oxley compliance policy and IT processes instead of sending e-mails...

Wicked Productive Wikis Forget daily status reports. Set up a wiki to collaborate more effectively with your project teams. The article covers DanWoods' Evolved Media Network company. Challenge: Organize a team of writers, clients, transcribers, graphic designers and producers to improve project communication. Solution: TWiki (free). Saving: 90 percent of administration time; 20 man-hours per week...

Winner of The 2007 Web 2.0 Idol is... BeeTooBee tabulated 287 Web 2.0 start-ups in the Company Review forum at TechCrunch posted in the past 40 days to reveal the 2007 Web 2.0 Idol. Web 2.0 number 5 winner is TWiki- Wiki collaboration technology for the enterprise...

Thomson Teaches Tech Through TWikis We wanted to develop a platform conducive to open environment collaboration in order to get managers at the tail end participating. So, [we] downloaded free open source wiki software from www.twiki.org, and got people to log on. and the technology took hold much faster than anyone anticipated - only about a month and a half. When Ken started using it, it grew exponentially, Birla said. We outgrew the one server that we originally used, and are now using one in Mason Ohio that supports 600-700 users...

CASE STUDY: Wikis give ARM Holdings a leg-up The article describes how ARM initially chose TWiki, an open source wiki programme that is particularly popular for corporate use behind the firewall for its engineering group. And, as part of formalising TWiki's role, ARM last year hired Euan Semple, who was credited with bringing wikis, blogs and electronic forums to the BBC and is now a consultant on social computing for businesses. He organized workshops for non-engineering staff. Once people see the potential of it, they become enthusiastic. TWiki is now a supported business application of IT: TWiki was initially hosted and maintained by some of the engineers who used it, and it took about two years from its initial appearance inside ARM for the software to become formally supported by the IT support staff...

TWiki.org Accelerates Pace Of Wiki Innovation In The Enterprise Situational Applications are enterprise software programs, created in short timeframes and with limited budgets, for small groups with specific needs. Created by users themselves, Situational Applications are often implemented without formal support from the IT organization. Accordingly, the Situational Application development process relaxes or omits many of the design, planning, scalability, and integration requirements associated with traditional enterprise software projects...

AJAX-Based TWiki.4.1 Accelerates Pace Of Wiki Innovation in the Enterprise TWiki is an open source enterprise wiki platform, and a pioneer in the field of situational applications. TWiki extends the free-form world of wikis by adding structure. With TWiki, wiki content can be browsed, searched, grouped, categorized, filtered and restricted for limited access. TWiki looks and feels like a Web 2.0 web site, and can be easily modified through standard web browsers...

Open source group updates free wiki Organizations looking to get their feet wet with Web 2.0 technologies might want to check out an updated version of open source enterprise wiki software that developers say can help companies embrace collaboration and speed application development and Version 4.1 includes application extensions that enable users to create what TWiki.org representatives call Situational Applications. The group defines Situational Applications as enterprise software programs, created in short time frames and with limited budgets, for small groups with specific needs...