Network Computing Review: Wikis in the Enterprise

Network Computing have published a detailed review of the four leading Enterprise Wikis - Confluence, JotSpot, Socialtext and CustomerVision. Having embraced Confluence as our chosen hosted Wiki solution it's pleasing to see it come out ahead against its peers to take the Editor's Choice award.

If you're curious about Enterprise Wikis then the full article is worth a read. Here are some highlights...

"Our Editor's Choice, Atlassian Software Systems' Confluence 2.1.2, has all the features that suit an enterprise wiki. It's easy to install and set up, yet flexible and extensible. It supports user and group access controls down to the page level. The price is reasonable, and, most important, the software doesn't demand extensive training or users with degrees in rocket science.

After taking support, security, management, configuration, features and price into consideration, we picked Atlassian's Confluence as our Editor's Choice award winner. Confluence is easy to install and configure on a variety of host OSs. The software is reasonably priced, secure enough for enterprise use, and extensible through RPC-XML, SOAP, the Confluence Plug-in APC and the Java API. Source code is freely available to licensed users, so even though Confluence is likely to meet most of your needs out-of-the-box, you can customize and extend the system to your heart's content.

For this review, we considered commercial wiki tools with ample tech support. Four vendors sent us a form of their product: Atlassian Software Systems sent its Confluence software-based wiki tool; JotSpot and CustomerVision gave us access to their hosted solutions; and Socialtext sent an appliance. Despite the different form factors, all four were remarkably simple to set up and flexible to use. Some lack sufficient security, but our winner, Confluence, has it all: good pricing, security, extensibility and customizability. "

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