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SMW+ is a semantic enterprise wiki
First of all SMW+ is a wiki. That means it is an effective tool for online collaboration and joint content authoring over the web. A well-known example is Wikipedia where thousands of endusers contribute content and help creating the world's largest online encyclopedia. In enterprise settings a wiki helps companies to cope with the shortcomings of classic groupware and email systems: It leverages information access and retrieval by providing an open platform instead of isolated communication channels. Another great plus of a wiki is its flexibility. It can cope with informal workflows and supports distributed and agile processes.
SMW+ now combines a wiki's social authoring approach with proven semantic technology. Its semantic capabilities allow you to tag, process and query data. Data is not lost content but it can be enriched with meaning. This enables you to query precisely for the needed information and to generate content in the wiki automatically. Thus you can get rid of manually created lists by letting SMW+ compile them dynamically. It also allows you to aggregate information in suitable views and output formats. Users can e.g. dynamically compile their own task lists or present events automatically in form of an up-to-date time line. In general, the semantic features enable a better organization, browsing and retrieval of wiki contents compared to traditional, non-semantic wikis.
The third cornerstone of SMW+ is that it is ready for enterprise settings. Enterprise scenarios often pose additional requirements to a wiki. Essential characteristics are e.g. convenient authoring for endusers, access control and restriction, and the interlinkage with external data sources. SMW+ provides these features and thus ensures the smooth application and usage in corporate environments.
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SMW+ is flexible, ready-to-use and open source
SMW+ is open source. Hence, you have complete control over the code and can customize it to your needs. This is also reflected in the technical foundation of SMW+. MediaWiki, the software powering Wikipedia, builts the basis of SMW+. The huge community around Wikipedia fosters continous further development of the base engine and creates plenty of useful extensions. So the chance is high that a feature you need has already been implemented!
The flexible nature of SMW+ allows to employ it for a variety of applications and usage scenarios. Typical scenarios for which SMW+ is suited is project management, knowledge management, software development and vocabulary building. Click here to learn more about the specific benefits that SMW+ provides in these fields. SMW+ can be compared to a swiss army knife: A tool that is hardly limited to a certain scenario. To get an impression of its universal applicability explore our use case section and learn how others are using SMW+.
SMW+ does not require a complicated installation or configuration. It can be easily set-up in a couple of minutes. If you don't know how to use a certain feature check-out our webinar section or dive into the comprehensive online documentation. We also offer technical support, training, consulting and costumization to help you exploit the full power of SMW+ and tailor it to your needs.
We have made you curious and you want to start right away? Then visit our demo wiki to get a taste of SMW+!
