TWIKI.NET Announces Hosted TWiki Solutions

TWIKI.NET's TWiki OnDemand Hosted Web 2.0 Application platform now available

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 24, 2008 TWIKI.NET, the leading provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, announced the release of its hosted Web 2.0 collaboration service named "TWiki OnDemand".

"Many IT managers are now looking to minimize the resource overhead associated with providing Web 2.0 services to their organization" said Will Thomas, COO of TWIKI.NET. "TWiki OnDemand" is not only an enterprise class wiki, but a complete hosted Web 2.0 solution based on the proven TWiki platform, fully supporting enterprise class RSS news feeds, tagging, blogging and wiki functionality."

Twiki is widely deployed in major enterprises worldwide, having its roots in the engineering and technical organizations within these companies. These groups rapidly adopted twiki as their standard because of its powerful markup language (TML), vast library of plug-ins and the ability to build applications that use the wiki content. With the introduction of a powerful new WYSIWYG editor, adoption of TWiki now is spreading throughout the enterprise into non-technical departments such as sales and marketing. For the first time, IT has a viable enterprise wiki option which can span the requirements both of non-technical user who demands ease of use, and the advanced engineering and technical user who requires the power to go beyond basic wiki functionality and develop powerful collaborative applications based on a wiki platform.

"With the recent usability enhancements to TWiki, there is no longer any reason for IT departments to manage multiple wikis within an organization. TWiki is clearly the best choice for IT departments wanting to future proof their Web 2.0 platform selection." said Thomas.

For an example of how a small office improved their operations by using TWiki, please see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Fprjhv0bM

In addition to providing a comprehensive Web 2.0 stack, TWiki is unique in that it is a "structured wiki" allowing for the creation of "situational applications" based on structured wiki content that can be associated with any wiki page. Structured content is form based information related to a specific wiki page. A situational application is one that can be written and enhanced by the end user community closest to the business needs, without involving IT programming resources, much in the same way an excel based expense report can be maintained by someone in the finance department.

For an example of situational applications that can be built upon TWiki, please see how IBM uses TWiki at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpdN-sxp9oA

Situational applications offered with TWiki OnDemand currently include:

  • Discussion forum application
  • Enterprise glossary application

TWiki "OnDemand" is based on TWIKI.NET's Certified TWiki Virtual Appliance. Customers who choose TWiki OnDemand have two options: "TWiki OnDemand Standard", typically selected by SMB's, who do not require a high degree of customization such as LDAP/AD authentication integration. "TWiki OnDemand Enterprise" designed for mid-size to large organizations requiring tight integration with their existing IT infrastructure, including unique authentication models and RDBM's.

With TWiki OnDemand, an IT executive can make the decision to provide a Web 2.0 collaboration platform for his company and have it provisioned the same day. Since TWiki OnDemand is a fully integrated Web 2.0 collaboration platform, IT staff no longer have to assemble and maintain separate tools at substantially greater cost.

TWiki OnDemand is available for evaluation. To obtain a login for a 30 day no cost evaluation of the service, please contact sales@twiki.net

TWiki OnDemand servers are hosted at www.equinix.com, a proven co-location service provider.

About TWIKI.NET

TWIKI.NET was founded in 2007 to provide enterprise class software, support, and services based on open source TWiki, the worlds leading open source enterprise wiki. The company offers Certified TWiki for behind-the-firewall deployments where security is the primary concern and a muti-tenant and Enterprise class hosted services solution called "TWiki OnDemand", for organizations wishing to minimize maintenance and support overhead (TCO) via a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The company is committed to supporting the development of open source TWiki and empowering organizations who understand the competitive advantages offered by a structured wiki.

To learn more about TWIKI.NET, visit www.twiki.net

Contact Information: Merrill Freund, Jack Cowett Schwartz Communications 415-512-0770 media@twiki.net

TWiki is a registered trademark of Peter Thoeny, TWIKI.NET. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders.