Confluence+wiki+system

=Confluence= []
 * Software systems / Confluence, from Atlassian**


 * Confluence** is an enterprise wiki software solution from Atlassian Software. It is available free of charge to proven not-for-profit organisations, and there is a free trial version, but essentially this is a wiki system which you either buy and host on your own servers, or subscribe to a hosted solution. Pricing is based on the number of users. Customers include IBM, CERN, Nike, Vodaphone, the BBC, Adobe, UNESCO, many banks, big companies and government agencies.

Some of Confluence’s features:
 * WYSIWYG editor for simple edits, and a wiki text markup system for more sophisticated functions
 * Pages can be edited in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice, then saved back to the wiki
 * Pages and other facilities can be organised into workspaces, e.g. to support the work of a particular enterprise team
 * Pages can be organised into hierarchies; this autoamtically adds a breadcrumb trail to the pages in the hierarchy
 * Strong search capability, including ‘did you mean?’ feature for near misses; attachments can also be searched
 * Emails within an enterprise team can be included in the wiki for easier email discussion management
 * Unusually for a wiki engine, Confluence also supports blogs. Each user could have a blog.
 * Discussion threads can be added to wiki pages and blog post pages
 * Individual users can have their own personal space, and can also post Twitter-like status messages
 * Very fine-grained permission control exists at the space level and the individual page level, to define who can see, create, edit, export pages
 * Plugins support things like calendars, SQL querying of external databases, display of tabular materials in dynamically-generated chart form, connection to SharePoint document management, flowcharting and other diagram types.

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