5 Things to know about XWiki

Here are the 5 main things to know about XWiki and XWiki SAS: some of the features of the product (more detailed list here),  how to integrate it into your company's infrastructure as well as professional services that XWiki SAS can offer you.

 1. XWiki is a Wiki

XWiki is a wiki and as such, has a complete set of collaborative features like:

• Collaborative edition: create, update and enrich you content that can contain text, images, videos, links... (that is called unstructured content). No need to learn wiki syntax, our WYSIWYG editor (What You See Is What You Get) allows any user format its text using a similar interface as Word;
• Rollback to a previous version: at anytime, XWiki allows users to rollback to a previous version of a page or even compare two versions;
• Modification history: check all modifications done to a wiki page (who did the modification, at what time, what has been updated);
• Rights management: each user that is registered on the wiki can have specific rights that allows (or forbids) him to create, update, read or delete pages. In XWiki, rights management can be adjusted at the wiki, space or page level, per user or per group;
• Discussion: comments, annotations, user directory, user status and wiki activity stream are features that allows your team write and enrich your company's knowledge easily.

 2. XWiki is the Next Generation Wiki

XWiki is Easier to Use

XWiki's easy to learn and use. XWiki enables any user take the most out of our powerful and innovative technology:

• Create and share pages: you can create pages and share them easily using build-in features (export, email);
• Office Import: import and convert your documents into wiki pages. Word, Power Point and Excel files become collaborative;
• WYSIWYG: our rich text editor enables any user use the formatting he wants like bold, italic or change font-size just like on Word, without knowing wiki syntax.

XWiki is More Organized

XWiki is more than just a wiki. It manages more than unstructured content (text, images, links, etc.). XWiki is made to be adapted to your business needs by managing structured data:

• Structure your Content: with XWiki you can create forms to manage you internal data, like product sheets with you own fields, sort and find them easily;
• Create your application inside the wiki: XWiki is also a development platform. That is how we develop business applications on top of XWiki. Forum and blog applications have been developed this way.

 3. XWiki is a wiki for Businesses

XWiki can be easily integrated in an existing IT infrastructure:

• LDAP: simplify user management by connecting the wiki to your company's user directory system (Active Directory, OpenLDAP, etc.);
• SSO (Single Sign-On): to ease usage and adoption by your coworkers, XWiki SAS has developed several authenticators (NTLM, Kerberos, CAS...) that allows transparent connection to the wiki;
• REST API / RSS: retrieve information from the wiki to display them into other systems or portals, or make operations from other systems on the wiki... all this using web standards;
• XWiki is written in java: standard configuration is Linux Debian, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL. XWiki is also compatible with other database engines (Oracle, PostgreSQL) and other operating systems (Redhat, Windows);
• Cluster mode: for wikis with a lot of traffic, XWiki supports cluster installations so that the load can be spread over several servers;
• Quality of service: our years of experience on XWiki Open Source software allowed us to develop monitoring and report tools to make sure that wiki is always up and take appropriate actions in case of failure.

 4. XWiki is Open Source

Download XWiki software from the website or test it now on the cloud, and install it without any license cost.

Contact XWiki SAS only when you really need it. We can answer your professional needs thanks our wide range of services:

• Development: to adapt the wiki to you needs by customizing it or creating new features, create a personal web design, etc.;
• Support: for users, administrators or developers;
• Hosting: we can host the wiki for you;
• Trainings: in order to make the most out of the wiki;
• Consulting: to analyze your needs and define with you the perfect set of applications and customizations your company / team needs.

We also have solutions built on top of the default XWiki:

• Structured Knowledge Base
• Collaborative Intranet
• eLearning
• Competitive Intelligence
• Public Debate

XWiki is also available in Cloud version; you can create your wiki in a few minutes: http://network.xwiki.com

 5. Our clients particularly like

• Livetable feature: à la excel but with the power of collaboration, filter, sort and find easily your wiki pages;
• Page templates: create page templates for your team to make content creation easier and make your wiki more consistent;
• Office document import: import and convert office documents like Word, Power Point and Excel into wiki pages;
• Flexibility of the tool: XWiki offers an API for your IT department to develop applications inside the wiki that match YOUR needs;
• Open Source model: use the wiki, all its feature or even customize it as much as you want without any license cost. Contact XWiki SAS when you need it;
• Multi-wiki / farm: create as many wikis as you want, on demand with a couple of clicks. Each team is independent on its own wiki;
• Rich editor: no need to know wiki syntax to format your text. Our WYSIWYG editor (rich text editor) has all standard text formatting buttons (bold, italic, color, etc.);
• The human size of our company: we are a 30 person SMB, our goal is to improve productivity of companies we work with;