XWiki Overview
What is XWiki?
XWiki is the next generation wiki, a feature rich tool that as opposed to other tools is secure, easy to use and more organized. At the same time it's a light and powerful development platform that allows you to customize the wiki to your specific needs.
Easier to use
What makes XWiki so easy to use is the possibility to instantly create and share new pages. At the same time you have the option to import office documents, such as text documents, spreadsheets and presentations and preview or edit them inside the wiki.
The wysiwyg editor is a great tool for editing and enriching your pages. As you add content you are able to see what your page is going to look like with no need to save it.
With XWiki, you also have direct access to other powerful professional collaboration features, such as:
- Page history: you will never again lose any information
- Page tagging: for easier search and navigation
- Content annotations: for natural collaboration within pages
- Page social comments: for discussions around a document
- Page or space watch: to follow the activity on a document, project or group of members
- Page attachments: to manage every kind of related files, including the biggest attachments
More organized
With XWiki you can go beyond the simple act of sharing of text and add structure to pages. You may design forms and templates for your pages. Once you have created the pages you may use livetables to filter and sort them.
Light and powerful development platform
Using structured data and in page scripting you can create macros and business applications that allow you to extend the capabilities of your wiki and customize the wiki to match your company's needs.
How can I get XWiki?
XWiki is an Open Source project and can be downloaded for free from our website. XWiki is also available in the Cloud. With XWiki Cloud you benefit from everything XWiki Open Source offers combined with the advantages of cloud computing. One of the benefits of using XWiki Cloud is that you get your own enterprise wiki up and running in no time, since there are no operating system dependencies and there's no hardware or software to install. Click here to start your own cloud wiki today for free.
What can I use XWiki for?
XWiki can be combined with applications and services and customized so that it addresses your specific needs. XWiki is used around the globe by enterprises of all sizes for competitive intelligence, structured knowledge bases, collaborative intranets, public debate and much more. Organizations for which we have developed solutions activate in areas such as: education, media, distribution, industry, etc.
Read our case studies to gain a better understanding of some of the unique projects that are built on top of XWiki and visit our References page to see what our customers are saying about us.
