Introducing Twiki Workspaces - New UI, and New Suite of Apps

Through a silent beta, hundreds of teams have enjoyed a new and easier way to collaborate using Twiki -- Twiki Workspaces. We've gotten great feedback and now we're announcing to the world at large.

For users new to Twiki, you'll find practical tools to help you share and work together better. For existing Twiki users, Workspaces offers an upgrade path from wiki-centric sharing to workspaces based collaboration. Non-technical folks as well as technical individuals can better share existing Twiki content and benefit from the new suite of common collaboration apps.

What is Twiki Workspaces?

Twiki Workspaces includes a new UI to make it much easier for non-power Twiki users to share and collaborate. Workspaces also has collaboration tools such as dashboards, co-worker profiles, search, document share, discussion forums, useful web links, and more for each level in the company: Team, Project, and Organization. Of course, the award-winning Enterprise Wiki which includes the App 2.0 API is available throughout Workspaces.

How Twiki Workspaces came about

We developed features by listening to our user base and focusing on the theme of "Get Work Done!". It is little surprise that we changed the look and feel of Twiki into a fresh, intuitive, and easy to use UI to make it easier to collaborate. We also focused on simple project management, easy document sharing, and quick and easy intranet capabilities. No more DIY for our installed base, its all ready to use out of the box.

The feedback was also pretty consistent. Users wanted :

• 1. Document Sharing - Reduce the use of email to send attachments to the internal team.
• 2. Lightweight Project Management - Give me something much simpler than Microsoft Project but more sophisticated than Microsoft Excel.
• 3. A simple Intranet - I'd like to get to important information fast.
• 4. A new UI - focused on Team Collaboration

and of course:

• 5. Don't lose the Twiki Enterprise Wiki - Probably the most competent Enterprise Wiki available today

We listened and focused our product development with these priorities in mind. Here is a summary of the survey data.

Workspaces in Detail

The best way to learn Workspaces is just start to use it. You can sign up for a Free 2 Week Trial. Another option is to Test Drive (a readonly, pre-set up workspace). We also have some videos to give you an overview.

Here are the key features of Workspaces:

• New UI - Centered around teams, projects, and departments
• Project Management Workspaces and Dashboards - Simple tools for common program and project management
• Team Collaboration Workspaces - With built in utilities such as discussion forums, team profile, team wiki, team doc share, intranet hot links, and more
• User Profiles - A way for team members to tell more about themselves in a searchable format
• Document Sharing - Simple areas to store documents so you don't need to email them around
• Organizational Links - Intranet in a box, and a collection of small utilities for a team, project, or department including Discussion Forums, Contacts CRM, and Calendar.
• Award-wining Twiki - The full blown enterprise wiki with Twiki Markup Language (TML) to allow you to develop your own custom apps

Go to our Twiki Workspaces page for an Overview and Features Page for more details.

How You Can Buy Workspaces!

Twiki Workspaces is available in two ways: OnDemand as a monthly subscription model, or OnSite with our VMWare based Virtual Appliance, sold as a perpetual license. View the pricing options here.

We encourage you to join the Twiki Workspaces Community by signing up for a Free Trial, or trying out the Test Drive.

Send us feedback, we love hearing from you!

2011-08-03 | Jitendra Kavathekar | Category General