TWiki.org Announces New Version of its Flexible and Powerful Web-Based Collaboration Platform
Oct 17th, 18:35 UTC
Major corporations like Motorola, SAP, Sun Microsystems and Yahoo use TWiki to run dynamic intranet sites, share knowledge, and create light-weight web applications quickly.
SAN JOSE, Calif., October 15, 2004 - TWiki.org today announced a new version of its popular web-based collaboration platform TWiki. Companies use TWiki to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the Internet. TWiki provides users with an Edit link on every page that instantly allows them to freely create and change content on a web page. People with modest skill sets can create light-weight web applications quickly without reverting back to programming. It is installed on a web server and can be operated from any web browser, without requiring special browser Plugins.
The new version of TWiki offers a number of new features, including:
- Attractive new skins using a standard set of CSS classes
- Pre-installed Plugins to add comments, calculate spreadsheets, edit tables, render lists and run slideshows
- Many user interface and usability improvements
- Search improvements
- Easier-to-use save options
- Automatic upgrade script
"TWiki is designed to eliminate the 'one webmaster syndrome' where intranet content is outdated and insufficient," said Peter Thoeny, the author of TWiki. "TWiki empowers employees by allowing them to instantly make changes to the intranet and, combined with a peer review of content, makes sure that content is up to date and accurate. Extending conventional Wikis, TWiki allows you to give structure to unstructured Wiki content. This is based on features such as web forms, parent-child relationships, organization trees, spreadsheets, name spaces and more."
Major companies use TWiki to increase the productivity of their teams. "Synopsys' Verification Group uses TWiki extensively," said Joao Geada, a principal engineer, Verification Group, Synopsys, Inc., the world leader in semiconductor design software. "Our group has a large number of employees spread across 10 locations and three continents. Many of our R&D employees, from senior managers to junior developers, use TWiki to collaborate on documents. It is valuable for internal documentation purposes, from documenting requirements and architectures to tracking the progress of implementation. TWiki's ease of use and reliability has made it possible for our R&D group to operate and coordinate more efficiently."
About TWiki Web-Based Collaboration Platform
TWiki extends the free-form and creative world of Wiki systems where content can be shared as easily as e-mail; it adds structure to content, which can be browsed, searched, grouped, categorized, filtered and access restricted. TWiki looks and feels like a normal intranet or web site. In addition, an Edit link on every page allows users to freely create and change content. TWiki is installed on a web server and can be operated from any web browser, without requiring special browser Plugins. Features include automatic link generation, full text search, authorization based on groups, web form handling, reporting, e-mail change notification, file attachments to web pages, revision control of pages and attachments, a modular templating system with skins, and more.
TWiki with its server-side plug-ins API is a platform where developers can build groupware applications in an efficient way. More then 120 Plugins and add-ons are currently available for download at the TWiki.org web site, including an Action Tracker Plugin, Calendar Plugin, Chart Plugin, Database Plugin, Headlines Plugin to display RSS news feeds, LDAP Plugin, Poll Plugin, Slideshow Plugin for web-based presentations, Spreadsheet Plugin, XML XSL Plugin, XP Tracker Plugin, Mail to TWiki Add-On, Publish Add-On to generate static HTML pages, Web Services Add-On, and more. TWiki is available for download from the TWiki.org website. For more information, contact: Peter Thoeny at peter@thoeny.com
About TWiki.org:
TWiki.org's mission is to provide a leading edge, web-based collaboration platform targeting the corporate Intranet world. TWiki fosters information flow within an organization; lets distributed teams work together seamlessly and productively; and eliminates the one-webmaster syndrome of outdated intranet content. TWiki has been downloaded tens of thousands of times and is in use at major corporations and also at many public web sites.
(Submitted by Peter Thoeny of TWiki)
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