TWiki

What do you like best?

It was simple and easy to use, and You can install own version of your TWiki in your organization, It also has various plugin supports and and can be integrated with other software's like LDAP etc.

What do you dislike?

To efficiently use the features of TWiki it require certain level of training, it will not be a straightforward things. Users need to understand how the Concepts of Web, Topic and attachment is linked. and there could be the cases where One Topic acts as a Parent for another Topics. So this architecture will involve certain learning curves.

Also initial setup will require certain efforts, like setting up Apache Web server first, then we need to install perl module / compile the perl module in apache.

It is nice to have exposure of PERL for a TWiki administrator.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

TWiki as a Content Management option could be great, but you need to have a good administrator who can smoothly setup TWiki for you and can look upon issues on day to days basis.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We were trying to develop plugin in TWiki which will serve the Topic content to 3rd party software's like Google Search Appliances and other search engines. As TWiki pages are rendered from template it cannot be a straightforward web crawling, by crawlers. as 'view source' operation on TWiki page will just render template code, without any html body it's difficult to crawl the page.

The plugin which we developed help the Google Search Appliances and other Search engines to get the exact content from the template so the search can be fired upon such content.