Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform accelerates Enterprise 2.0 transformation for Chinese government, business and academic institutions

Announcing a mutually exclusive partnership between ChinaSource, a subsidiary of Chinese Academy of Sciences (an agency of the Central Government of the Peoples Republic of China) and Twiki, Inc. to develop, market and sell Enterprise collaboration solutions in Greater China

SUNNYVALE, Calif - November 2, 2009

News Facts

  • Today Twiki, Inc. (http://twiki.net) and China Source, a subsidiary of Chinese Academy of Sciences (an agency of the Central Government of the Peoples Republic of China http://english.cas.cn) announced a mutually exclusive partnership to develop, market, and sell Twiki products and solutions in Greater China.

  • This relationship helps transform Chinese government agencies, enterprises, and academic institutions into highly collaborative organizations by bringing the best of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 collaboration technologies, processes, and cultural shifts to these organizations.

  • Collaborative organizations require technological, cultural, and procedural transformation. Thought leading organizations in the Peoples Republic of China are gaining a competitive edge in the global marketplace by breaking down silos, fostering a shift in organizational culture, and empowering their workforce with the Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform.

  • As an Enterprise 2.0 solution, Twiki offers easy-to-use web-based sharing with wikis, blogs, and enterprise social networking. Additionally, Twiki includes technology to automate enterprise collaboration patterns with Twiki Agile Applications. These include project management, sales automation, document management and content management. The Twiki platform includes connectors to existing Enterprise applications and builds in the enterprise grade security, scalability and availability required of businesses and government agencies. Twiki solutions are available as either a software subscription (Twiki OnSite) or as a hosted software-as-a service, or SaaS, model (Twiki OnDemand).

  • The Chinese Academy of Sciences is an agency of the central government of the Peoples Republic of China. The investment arm of Chinese Academy of Sciences is a majority holder in Lenovo, Huawei, SinoSoft, and many other multinational companies based in China.

  • According to Forester, the global Enterprise 2.0 software market will be $4.6 billion by 2013. Gartner estimates the broader enterprise software market at $220 billion in 2009. Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform enables ChinaSource to address the Enterprise 2.0 market in Greater China as well as empower the larger Enterprise software market by offering solutions to easily upgrade the existing installed base to a more collaborative enterprise using Twiki Enterprise Connectors.

  • The Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform builds on top of an open source core from TWiki.org, which is an active community of more than 40,000 registered users and has been downloaded more than 500,000 times. TWiki was named as a finalist in the "Best Project for the Enterprise" category in the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards in August 2009. Twiki won the Innovation Award at the Plug and Play Fall EXPO, and is a Finalist for best Enterprise 2.0 technology at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, November 2-4, 2009.

Supporting Quotes

  • "In today's financial climate, agility is the key to global success." said Jitendra Kavathekar, CEO and President, Twiki, Inc. "Twiki enables government agencies and businesses in Greater China to make effective use of their key resources - people, information and knowledge - all coming together with Twiki's enterprise collaboration pattern based technology. Our strong partnership with the Chinese Academy of Sciences will help accelerate the transformation to Enterprise 2.0 and Government 2.0 in Greater China."

  • "We are pleased to forge a partnership with the leading enterprise 2.0 technology vendor from Silicon Valley, California" said Larry McArthur, Chairman U.S.Operations, ChinaSource. "Together, Twiki and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are helping shape the transformation of Chinese business, government and academia into a highly collaborative culture empowered with the best web collaboration technology."

About Twiki

Twiki, Inc. (http://twiki.net) is the leading provider of enterprise agility solutions. Twiki is used by more than half of the Fortune 500 and leading Government agencies with more than 60,000 installations in 130 countries and 14 languages.

About ChinaSource

ChinaSource is the U.S. based subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (an agency of the Central Government of the Peoples Republic of China. (http://english.cas.cn)

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