Wiki

ITA Premium - Small Enterprise: Wiki Collaboration for Small Enterprises by Info-Tech Research Group

Wikis are a key element of the Web 2.0 collaboration toolset. IT and business decision-makers should understand how enterprise wikis work and how they differ from traditional wikis.

This research note covers the following major areas:

• Definitions of wiki.
• Content creation workflow in wikis.
• Site organization for wikis.
• Security concerns specific to wikis.
• Potential uses for enterprise wikis and the business needs they address.

ITA Premium: Enterprise Wiki Appropriateness Assessment by Info-Tech Research Group

An enterprise-class wiki can improve collaboration and communication in the organization, but only if it is carefully matched with business needs. This appropriateness assessment tool includes the following components:

• An appropriateness questionnaire that gauges the relevant aspects of the enterprise environment for wiki applicability.
• A targeted analysis for each response entered in the questionnaire.
• An overall assessment of the enterprise’s suitability for wiki solut...

  

ITA Premium: A Tale of Five Wikis by Info-Tech Research Group

Enterprise wikis sound great in theory, but how are organizations actually using them? Info-Tech presents and analyzes five case studies representing enterprises of various sizes, from a range of different industries.

The research note covers the following usage areas:

• Wikis for collaboration within and between teams.
• Wikis as knowledgebases.
• Wikis for collaborative content creation.
• Wikis as alternatives to portal solutions.
• Wikis as trai...

  

ITA Premium - Small Enterprise: Success Stories: Five Small Enterprise Wikis by Info-Tech Research Group

Wikis have great potential as collaboration tools, but enterprise decision-makers must understand how to target the implementation to realize that potential. Info-Tech presents and analyzes five case studies representing a range of different industries and solutions, including software-as-a-service (SaaS) and open source options.

The research note covers the following usage scenarios:

• Wikis for collaboration within and between teams.
• Wikis as knowledgebases.
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Wikis at Work by Yankee Group

“Social software is software that we really can’t use if we’re not on the network or that’s not useful to us just sitting in front of an isolated PC.” That statement by Harvard Business School Associate Professor Andrew McAfee—an expert on social software and the originator of the term “Enterprise 2.0”—sums up the nature and allure of social networking and the power of social software applications like wikis to connect people on common int...

Collaboration and Wikis and Blogs, Oh My! How Web Publishing Tools Could Change Collaboration by IDC

This IDC Insight looks at the emerging interest in using Weblogs (blogs) and wikis for collaboration. It explores what these technologies are, what they offer for collaboration, and how they are expected to impact collaboration, including collaborative solutions, over the next several years.

Enterprise Wikis by Jupiter Research Corporation

Site operators are increasing the deployment of wiki solutions to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing, despite the security and work flow limitations of existing open source solutions.

The 2009-2014 World Outlook for Corporate Wiki Applications by Icon Group International, Inc.

This econometric study covers the world outlook for corporate wiki applications across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region and of the globe. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a country vis-à-vis others. Using econometric models which project fundamental economi...

Survey of Academic Library Use of Instructional Technology by Primary Research Group

The Survey of Academic Library Use of Instructional Technology examines use of information literacy computer labs, classroom response "clicker" technology, whiteboards, and many other educational technologies used by libraries. In an era in which library education has become an increasingly important part of the academic librarian's duties, this report provides insights on how peer institutions are allocating their educational budgets and choosing the most effective technologies and practices in...

Spreadsheets, 2.0 Style by Ovum Plc

Spreadsheets have always been the true loners of the corporate IT desktop. The software has been designed as a personal productivity desktop application — with “personal” being the operative word. Despite their wide-scale use across the enterprise, spreadsheets have never worked well for collaborative group work. Wiki pioneer Socialtext wants to change that. It has introduced new software to its social business computing platform called SocialCalc that makes spreadsheets more &...

B2B Marketing Online: Business Meets Social Media by eMarketer

Last year was the first time trade shows—or “face-to-face” media—surpassed business publications in share of total revenue. The emphasis on socialization—and social media—is growing for digital media, too.

The B2B Marketing Online report tracks the tectonic shifts that are shaking up the once solid and predictable world of long, complicated sales cycles.

Of course, reaching the ultimate decision maker is still the key goal, but marketers a...

Nordic Consumer Survey, Personal Communications by IDC

This study is part of a series of studies and represents the findings from IDC's annual consumer survey. In addition to the document, an Excel tool is provided for in-depth analysis of the results.

"Online and mobile communication services are rapidly being adopted," said Anders Elbak, IDC research manager and author of the study. "Social networking in particular will be in demand and will fuel adoption, as more communication features are incorporated into the social Web sites."

Web 2.0 and The Enterprise: Strategies to maximize new opportunities towards Web 3.0 by Business Insights

Web 2.0 and The Enterprise: Strategies to maximize new opportunities towards Web 3.0

""In 2007, venture capitalists pumped a record $1.34 billion into 178 Web 2.0 deals in the US, an increase of 88 per cent on the previous year...""

Web 2.0 and The Enterprise is a new report published by Business Insights tthat examines how the underlying concepts behind Web 2.0 and the technologies and services it enables are filtering into the corporate world.
While there is much debat...

Mobile Web: State of the Market, Technology, and Business Issues by Mind Commerce Publishing

World Wide Web (WWW or Web) usage has expanded dramatically over the last decade. Billions of users have used the Web to perform thousands of actions each that facilitate their lives through entertainment, information, and commerce. Mobile Web represents a great opportunity for all constituents including portals, media companies, service providers, application providers, and mobile network operators.

However, accessing and using the Web while mobile is completely different than fixed...

Pushing the Boundaries of On-line Collaboration - The Web-based Collaboration Services Market by Frost & Sullivan

This research service reviews the emerging market for web-based collaboration services, comparing these new service opportunities with the related, developing technologies of conferencing and collaboration applications, Software as a Service (SaaS), and the Web 2.0 paradigm. The environmental drivers and enablers are examined to understand the history and background from which this new class of service has come. The varying types of technology and tools deployed in services now available is also...

Nordic IT Investment Guide 2008: Communications by IDC

The Nordic communications market continues to top the list of investment priorities. Mobile investments are particularly in the focus of Nordic enterprises.

"Nordic enterprises are embracing the opportunities to make mobile employees more efficient and more accessible," said Research Manager at IDC Nordic, Brian Troelsen.

Nordic enterprises are changing their focus towards more advanced mobile applications such as mobile access to ERP systems. "There is a clear tendency towards...

2007 Technology - Internet - Volume 2 - Web Development & Audio-Visual Coding by Paul Budde Communication Pty Ltd

This new biennial report covers the key technologies of the World Wide Web and audio visual coding (compression) technologies: SSL/TLS Transport Layer Security, HTTPS, HTTP 1.1, web forms, MIME, ETag, log file analysis, cookies, WebDav, Web Services, SGML, XML, HTML 4.01, XHTML, browser compatibility, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Document Object Model (DOM), WebFeed, RSS, Atom, PodCasting, Java, JavaScript, ECMAScript, SMIL, XUL, Ajax, XSLT, SHTML, JavaBeans, Java Servlets, Java Platform Enterp...

Web 2.0: The Next Generation Internet Is More than a Red-Hot Marketing Buzzword by TowerGroup

The underlying principles of Web 2.0, which rely on collaboration and creating software as a service, have the potential to change the software industry and the everyday workplace. The term "Web 2.0" is a vague, often contentious label that refers to a second generation of Internet-based services that use the Web as a platform, employ rich user interfaces, involve some level of collaboration, and rely heavily on user-contributed data. Common tools in the Web 2.0 sphere including blogs, wikis, an...

Corporate Library Benchmarks, 2009 Edition by Primary Research Group

Corporate Library Benchmarks, 2009 Edition presents extensive data from 52 corporate and other business-oriented libraries; data is broken out by company size, type of industry and other criteria.

The mean number of employees for the organizations in the sample is 16,000; the median, 1700. Some of the many issues covered in the report are: spending on electronic and print forms of books, directories, journals and other information resources; library staffing trends, number of lib...

Online Social Media and Travel - International by Mintel International Group Ltd.

In practically no other industry is current, topical information so important in the consumer decisionmaking process. In fact, information is often called the ‘lifeblood’ of the travel sector, as without appropriate information, the potential customer’s incentive and ability to book are severely limited.

Travellers need access to relevant facts before going on a trip to help them plan and choose between options, and also increasingly need even more detailed destination-...

Hardcopy Peripherals: Document Solutions Update, July 31, 2008 by IDC

This IDC update provides a summary of the product, corporate, and marketing announcements affecting document solutions for the hardcopy peripherals market during the period ending July 31, 2008.

Business Process Management (BPM) Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014 by Wintergreen Research

WinterGreen Research announces the following study: Business Process Management (BPM) Strategies, Market Shares, and Market Forecasts, 2008 to 2014.

Business process management promises to drive enterprise markets going forward by implementing automated process more efficiently. Automation of business process must be balanced with human exception management, which is managed by workflow. Business processes are enhanced by the ability to interconnect a range of different applications syst...

Canadian Market Opportunity for Social Networking and Web 2.0 Software by IDC

This IDC study examines the adoption of social networking and Web 2.0 technologies within Canadian enterprises and discusses the key drivers, inhibitors, and preferences for adoption. The social networking and Web 2.0 revolution is happening whether Canadian organizations are ready for it or not. This study examines how well social networking and Web 2.0 technologies have been adopted in Canada and delves further into some of the factors that are driving and inhibiting adoption of these tech...

Finding the Business Value in Web 2.0 by Frost & Sullivan

This insight explores the value of various Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, social networking, RSS feeds and mashups. Further, it seeks to identify opportunities for these technologies in the enterprise market. Finally, the study provides some recommendations to vendors and end customers with regard to deploying Web 2.0 technologies efficiently in the business market.

Digital Asset Management (DAM) Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014 by Wintergreen Research

WinterGreen Research announces that it has a new study on digital asset content management markets. Systems are poised for significant growth as the entertainment and media industry adopts digital media technology. The costs of making and distributing film goes way down, video and images are repurposed and reused, different types of entertainment is being developed based on what ordinary people create and watch on UTube. Changes relate to purchase of marketing and Web 2.0 based applications base...

Content Management Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014 by Wintergreen Research

WinterGreen Research announces that it has a new study on enterprise content management markets. Systems are poised for significant growth as people move to purchase for new marketing and Web based applications based on XML and Web technologies.

Enterprise content management (ECM) systems are basic infrastructure for unstructured information. Unstructured information is becoming more structured as it is tagged with XML tags and managed in components enabling reuse and repurposing of cont...