Category Archives: Intranets

Three reasons you’ll want to know more about the Navigation Menu Editor for Confluence

The Confluence user interface cannot be personalized very much and the standard version does not offer a global navigation menu. That’s why //SEIBERT/MEDIA developed the Navigation Menu Editor to solve these issues and to let your company work more efficiently. With this plugin, you can quickly and easily integrate a navigation bar into the Confluence interface so you can access important pages directly. Here are three reasons why this Confluence plugin might interest you.

Billing for Atlassian licenses: Payment terms and procedures

Atlassian offers returns on licenses within 30 days of purchase. Customers who purchase Atlassian licenses from //SEIBERT/MEDIA have this period of time to reimburse us for the licenses. This is how we conduct the licensing process: When you order a license for an Atlassian product from us, we cover the fees for you. As soon as we receive the license code, we use our credit card to make an advance payment directly to Atlassian for the license fees. We then send you a normal invoice that you must pay within two weeks.

Enterprise Wikis: Advantages of Confluence compared to Foswiki and MediaWiki

In our article, “Enterprise Wikis: Criteria and important topics in the evaluation of wiki software” we discussed the diverse and unique requirements an enterprise wiki needs to meet. Decisions about choosing the right wiki system cannot be made using generalizations, but rather only by taking into account the specific needs of the company. In this article, we will draw a concrete comparison between the approaches of the Atlasssian Confluence commercial system and the open source systems Foswiki and MediaWiki. What are the strengths of Confluence compared to Foswiki and MediaWiki?

Enterprise Wikis: Criteria and important topics in the evaluation of wiki software

Wikis for intra-company usage are becoming well established as both commercial and open source applications. This article gives an overview of criteria and requirements involved in the decision making process, along with a comparison of our proprietary Wiki Confluence System and its open source competitors, Foswiki and MediaWiki.

Confluence and Foswiki Plugins – A Comparison

All wiki systems have the same basic functions: opening, editing and saving documents. These functions can be covered in a single Wikipedia paragraph. The functions of a more advanced business wiki, however, are more complex. A business wiki is not simply a web lexicon, but rather is intended to systematically handle a variety of processes in the company.

Organizational differences between intranet and Internet

You do not need to be an Internet professional to recognize the basic difference between a company’s intranet and its online presence. An intranet, the internal system, is protected against external access and contains non-public information. Online content, however, can be accessed by anyone. If you take a closer look, it’s clear that many different aspects must be considered and play an important role. We will therefore turn our attention in these two articles to the question of how to differentiate between an intranet and a website. First, we will look at the organizational aspects before dealing with the technical aspects in the following article.

Wikis in an Intranet Part 2: TWiki in Actual Company Practice

In general, the establishing of a wiki must be supported through a series of measures. If these activities are successful, the system – as I know from my own experience – will quickly be accepted and used by employees. At //SEIBERT/MEDIA, TWiki has been used since June 2007, now containing a total of eight Webs. The main Web alone grew to contain more than 1000 topics within just a few months.