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.

SUNNYVALE, Calif - November 4, 2009

News Facts

• Today Twiki, Inc. (http://twiki.net) announced that it is building an integration with Box.net to provide a simple way for Twiki customers to share, access and manage their files on Box.net. Enterprise customers, including over 50,000 organizations that use Box.net's hosted document management solution and over 60,000 organizations worldwide that use Twiki, can now benefit from best-of-breed Enterprise collaboration features paired with Box.net's well-known content management platform.

• Using the Twiki Enterprise Connector for Box.net, Twiki users will be able to attach files in Twiki workspaces that are created and stored on Box.net. A proof-of-concept is being previewed at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, where Twiki is a Finalist for best technology in the Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad contest. The keynote demonstration is on Wednesday November 4 at 2:15pm U.S. Pacific Standard Time.

• The Twiki Enterprise Connector for Box.net is being developed by the Twiki engineering team and is scheduled for General Availability in the last quarter of 2009.

• The Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform provides a powerful Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure for organizations to collaborate. The newly announced Twiki "Enterprise Workspaces" release features Team workspaces, Individual workspaces, Social media feeds, Enterprise-grade Wiki functionality, Blogs, Tags and Forums. Twiki incorporates Enterprise Collaboration Pattern based technology that allows enterprise users to connect not just with people they know, but also with people they need to work with using Twiki agile applications including project management, sales automation and knowledge management. Additionally, enterprises can easily develop their own customized collaborative workflows using simple web programming on the Twiki platform. This integration with Box.net will allow files hosted on Box.net to be associated with all Twiki applications and features.

• Twiki solutions are available as a virtual appliance (Twiki OnSite) or as a hosted software-as-a service, or SaaS, model (Twiki OnDemand).

• The Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform builds on top of an open source core from TWiki.org, which is an active community of more than 40,000 registered users and has been downloaded more than 500,000 times.

• TWiki was named a finalist in the "Best Project for the Enterprise" category in the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards in August 2009. Twiki won the Innovation Award at the Plug and Play Fall EXPO, 2009 and is a Finalist for best Enterprise 2.0 technology at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, November 2-4, 2009.

Supporting Quotes

• "In today's agile enterprise, ease of collaboration with co-workers and customers is key to success," said Jitendra Kavathekar, President and CEO, Twiki, Inc. "Twiki decreases organizational distance by bringing people at work closer together in team workspaces and collaboration patterns. Integrating with Box.net will extend the document management functionality in the Twiki platform to bring choice and the innovative ease-of-use of Box.net's service to our customers."

• "Box.net provides businesses with a simple, cost-effective way to share, access and manage all of their content online," said Aaron Levie, Co-founder and CEO Box.net. "This integration will help Twiki users easily manage their content from within Twiki - similar to the Salesforce.com integration we announced recently. It's another example of how the Box.net platform connects leading cloud solutions creating a more robust platform to meet the needs of any Enterprise."

About Twiki, Inc.

Twiki (http://twiki.net) is the leading provider of enterprise agility solutions. 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 14 languages.

About Box.net, Inc. 


Founded in 2005, Box.net (www.box.net) now serves over 50,000 companies, from small businesses to Fortune 1000, that look to Box to simplify online content management, accelerate team productivity and connect employees with a familiar interface that anyone can use. Through its open platform, OpenBox, customers can use their Box content with dozens of third-party applications and services, and businesses can customize Box to meet the specific needs of their industry or organization.

Box.net is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, backed by venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and U.S. Venture Partners, and was named the #2 fastest growing privately held company in Silicon Valley by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal in 2009.

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