XWiki is the ultimate solution for collective intelligence over the Web
April 20, 2016
XWiki is the ultimate solution for collective intelligence over the Web
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with XWiki Collaboration Suite
XWiki Collaboration Suite (XCS) is used across the whole OW2 organization and the OW2 community. XCS is also one of the key components on top of which OW2 is implementing its Quality Program Platform. XCS addresses two types of issues: collaboration related issues, and application development ones. On the collaboration side, XWiki makes it seamless to create and evolve collaborative knowledge bases. On the development side, XCS provides a rich API and a large number of extensions speeding up considerably the development of powerful Web applications.
- 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.
- 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.
- XWiki has a positive impact on the OW2 communication and collaborations strategies. It saves time when developing applications.
XWiki key differentiators in my opinion:
- Fast app development framework with very rich API
- Open-source strategy, opening the way to collaborative innovation