Showing posts with label innovation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label innovation. Show all posts

Monday, 7 January 2008

Enterprise Wiki

We're starting to take a look at Wikis again in EY. I first looked at wikis about 2 years ago when I set up a MediaWiki based wiki on an experimental server. I charted some of that course on an old blog. My conclusion from that time was that Confluence offered the best enterprise solution - reference my post Mediawiki is not for enterprise (to which Ross Nelson added some interesting comments on SharePoint2007); also At-Last-ian in this blog.

Although we have several repositories of information/knowledge that resemble, in varying degrees, a wiki it appears that the time of the true wiki (what is that?) may finally have arrived. The challenge is developing a solution that fits both with our current and future architecture (Enterprise Architecture) and our strategy around Knowledge Management.

I'll post more as we go.

UPDATE: The reason I ask what a true wiki is, is that so many solutions try to cover a large functional part of the social software domain rather than just being a wiki. Look at this quote from the Blogtronix web site (I pick this as an example, not to single this company out, even Confluence looks vulnerable to this charge):
BlogtronixEnterprise is the first service to offer secure Enterprise 2.0 blogs with wikis, RSS, document management, CMS, communities and corporate social networking built on the Microsoft .NET 2.0 architecture.
I don't want another DM solution, I already have a CMS and blog platform, so how can I seriously consider implementing this.

Then there's another class of solutions that are available online only. I don't think EY is ready to trust another organisation with its data in the way that solutions such as CentralDeskop and PBWiki require.