Stack Overflow for Teams vs. XWiki

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Stack Overflow for Teams
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Stack Overflow for Teams is a team knowledge management and Q & A platform for development billed per teammate, featuring roles and permissions, and integrations with popularly used collaboration tools.
$7
per month per teammate (up to 250 teammates)
XWiki
Score 8.2 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
XWiki is an open-source collaborative platform designed to enhance business collaboration and streamline knowledge management for companies of all sizes. As a an alternative to proprietary knowledge bases, XWiki offers a structured second-generation wiki with over 900 pre-made extensions, enabling businesses to add features and customize their XWiki instance to meet specific needs. Key features and benefits: Structured wiki concept: XWiki organizes knowledge…
$300
per year 10 users
Pricing
Stack Overflow for TeamsXWiki
Editions & Modules
Basic
$7
per month per teammate (up to 250 teammates)
Business
$14
per month per teammate (unlimited)
Enterprise
Custom
Starter
€300
per year for up to 10 users
On-Premise
Custom Pricing
(Pro Plans available for On-Premise deployment)
Basic
starting at €1443
per year for up to 25 users
Business
starting at €10890
per year for up to 250 users
Enterprise
starting at €33000
per year for up to 500 users
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Stack Overflow for TeamsXWiki
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.Discount available for multi-year pricing and higher user volumes. Up to a 50% discount available for NGOs and institutions of higher learning.
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Community Pulse
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Small Businesses
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Medium-sized Companies
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Stack Overflow for TeamsXWiki
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(10 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Stack Overflow for TeamsXWiki
Likelihood to Recommend
Stack Overflow
In my opinion, Stack Overflow for Teams is well suited for an organization that is on a hiring spree for the engineering teams. The reason for it is because instead of catering to doubts of new joinees individually, they can be asked to refer to the Stack Overflow and hence will save a lot of time for both new joiners as well as the existing employees.
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XWiki SAS
XWiki is very well suited for a very wide range of web collaboration and web development.
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Pros
Stack Overflow
  • Sharing technical solutions to problems we encounter in our internal development environment.
  • Sharing best practices we find in external resources.
  • Discussions on design patterns and conventions we can use in our projects.
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XWiki SAS
  • XWiki makes it easy to manage semi-structured information, which is at the heart of every knowledge nexus of organizations. It makes it easy to manage in a single system both structured data (such as memberships, projects), and unstructured data.
  • XWiki offers a very rich API for creating enterprise applications quickly that are easy to maintain and evolve collaboratively.
  • XWiki templating and skinning system is extremely flexible and powerful.
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Cons
Stack Overflow
  • I would recommend an increased engineering focus on the Microsoft Teams integration.
  • It would be nice to make more medals.
  • Easier ways to earn points.
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XWiki SAS
  • While the basic pieces are available for turning XWiki into an advanced semantic system, some features could be made available more prominently to the user for easing the use of faceted and typed links, paving the way for a new era of collaborative knowledge sharing.
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Alternatives Considered
Stack Overflow
It's easier to use Stack Overflow for Teams Q&A to maintain our knowledge base over time, over the Confluence wikis that we also maintain. You don't need to bother about folders, filenames, templates - just ask a question and answer it or get it answered. It feels less formal, so developers feel more free to add content.
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XWiki SAS
XWiki key differentiators in my opinion:
  • Fast app development framework with very rich API
  • Open-source strategy, opening the way to collaborative innovation
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Return on Investment
Stack Overflow
  • It makes the search for answers more efficient, so devs can focus in more important things.
  • Knowledge is not lost, even if people leave the company.
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XWiki SAS
  • XWiki has a positive impact on the OW2 communication and collaborations strategies. It saves time when developing applications.
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ScreenShots

XWiki Screenshots

Screenshot of an XWiki homepageScreenshot of knowledge management, in XWiki.Screenshot of the granular rights access feature, that helps users to manage big teams.Screenshot of some of the customizations available in every aspect of an instance, from theme to templates and page structure.Screenshot of an example of migration from Confluence using the dedicated migrator.