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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1 BlueSpice free
- 2 BlueSpice pro
- 3 BlueSpice editions at a glance
- 4 Use Cases
- 5 Functions at a glance
- 5.1 Content structuring
- 5.2 High performance search
- 5.3 Visual editor
- 5.4 Dynamic content
- 5.5 Document management
- 5.6 Reporting
- 5.7 Export
- 5.8 Administration
- 5.9 Infrastructure and security
- 5.10 Personalization
- 5.11 Layout & Design
- 5.12 Responsivity
- 5.13 Quality assurance (BlueSpice pro)
- 5.14 Manuals (BlueSpice pro)
- 5.15 Data analysis / Semantics (BlueSpice pro)
- 5.16 Collaboration (BlueSpice pro)
- 6 About Us
- 7 Related Links
BlueSpice free
BlueSpice free is a free of charge open source company wiki for teams and small businesses. It is based on MediaWiki, the software of Wikipedia (therefore "BlueSpice MediaWiki"). BlueSpice enhances MediaWiki with numerous business-relevant functions (see 5 "Functions at a glance").
MediaWiki itself is not changed in order to ensure the upgradeability of the entire system.
The software is programmed in PHP and can be operated on Windows and Linux systems. BlueSpice was published under the GPL v3 license. BlueSpice free is an outcoupling from BlueSpice pro with a smaller range of functions.
BlueSpice pro
Just like BlueSpice free, BlueSpice pro is based on MediaWiki. As an enterprise wiki, it is delivered with an extended range of functions with high utility value for enterprises. The software is optimized for use in medium-sized and large enterprises as well as public sector institutions. The functions that differentiate BlueSpice pro from BlueSpice free are (see point 5 "Functions at a glance" for further details):
- a workflow tool for professional quality assurance,
- a book function including an export function (PDF),
- comment and blog functions (BlueSpice Social), as well as
- the possibility to work with forms and metadata (semantics)
By the way, this test wiki is operated with BlueSpice pro.
BlueSpice editions at a glance
The following table illustrates the differences between MediaWiki and the BlueSpice editions free, pro and farm:
| MediaWiki | BlueSpice free | BlueSpice pro | BlueSpice farm | |
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| developer | Wikimedia foundation and MediaWiki community | Hallo Welt! Ltd. and MediaWiki community | ||
| Open Source | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| target audience | platform for Wikipedia and sister projects, as well as private individuals and smaller organizations | company wiki for teams and smaller organizations | enterprise wiki for medium-sized and large companies and organizations | |
| use case/s |
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| visual editor | plugin | yes | yes | yes |
| professional search | plugin | yes | yes | yes |
| quality assurance | Nein | plugin | yes | yes |
| manuals | plugin | plugin | yes | yes |
| data analysis / semantics | plugin | plugin | yes | yes |
| BlueSpice Social | no | no | yes | yes |
| subwikis | no | plugin | plugin | yes |
| connections | plugin |
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| technical
support |
community support | community support | professional support (contingent) und community support | |
| complementary services | no |
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| technical provision | self installation |
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| flexibility | within the scope of the given product | step-by-step development of further enterprise functions by Hallo Welt! Ltd. | ||
Use Cases
BlueSpice free
BlueSpice free is mainly used by teams and smaller companies / organizations that need a central knowledge base or are looking for a MediaWiki with more convenience and business functions.
BlueSpice pro
BlueSpice pro is an enterprise wiki for medium-sized and large companies or organizations. Typical use cases are:
Integrated management system (IMS)
An IMS combines individual management systems such as knowledge or quality management to form a system of holistic corporate management. It serves the systematic and structured documentation of processes, structures, information and company knowledge and minimizes misconduct.
Documentation
With BlueSpice, you ensure that your employees professionally document business-critical information and quickly find it when needed. Classic applications are, for example, IT documentation, technical documentation or project and software documentation.
Organizational manual
In addition to facts on corporate development and other organizational issues, an organizational manual often collects information from individual management systems. Quality management, for example, is the source of the quality manual. This can be stand-alone or integrated into the organizational manual.
Flexible knowledge base
When it comes to the organization of operational knowledge and information, BlueSpice can be used to realize knowledge- and information-based offers of all kinds for employees, customers, partners and other interest groups. This includes, for example, online helpdesks (FAQ, best practices ...), solutions for the organization of team and department knowledge or a knowledge base for public relations.
Functions at a glance
Content structuring
Link and organize knowledge like in Wikipedia
Whether classically structured or highly dynamic: BlueSpice pro is the software of choice to optimally manage your company knowledge. You work with exactly the same tools that have made Wikipedia unbeatable: categories, references and links, rooms for protected content, forwarding, templates and much more.
High performance search
Find information quickly and reliably
Search articles and file attachments (e.g. PDF and office documents) with a high-performance fulltext and title search as well as a fuzzy search. Filtering the search results delivers fast and perfect results. You can also find your content by searching and browsing the metadata.
Visual editor
Create and edit appealing articles
Your employees work with a fully developed WYSIWYG editor with table functions and numerous company specific adaptations. You can insert images using drag & drop. Working with links and categories is just as convenient as inserting tags and checkboxes.
Dynamic content
Enhancing articles with functions
Extend your wiki pages with additional features and dynamic content. For example, use search and input fields, add videos, draw flowcharts (e.g. draw.io), add content from other content pages or output metadata in calendar formats, timelines, or charts.
Document management
Direct access to office documents
Add Word, Excel or PDF documents to Wiki articles – multiple uploads, categorization and versioning included. With the appropriate server configuration, office documents can be sorted and edited directly in your Wiki. This is convenient, time-saving and improves productivity substantially.
Reporting
Trace changes to content in a targeted manner
BlueSpice pro provides the unique set of reporting and notification functions from Wikipedia. This allows you to track the latest changes in name- spaces, categories, linked pages or user changes. You can also find content that has not been edited for a long time. Your dashboard keeps you informed at all times.
Export
Process wiki contents externally
With BlueSpice pro articles can be exported in numerous formats: DOCX, XML, HTML and PDF. The „export tables“ function is particularly helpful: Not only tables from articles, but also overviews from the Wiki administration can be converted into CSV or XLXS tables and further processed (e.g. the overview of user rights).
Administration
Manage user rights conveniently
BlueSpice pro makes the administration of your wiki child‘s play. You can set up users, namespaces, groups and rights using graphical interfaces and assign defined roles. As an administrator, you can also rename and merge accounts, copy articles or replace text parts in all articles.
Infrastructure and security
System integration and secure interfaces
„Under the hood“ BlueSpice pro offers important security functions. The connection to a central authentication system (LDAP /AD, SAML) is as self-evident as the provision of APIs. In general, the script language Lua opens up many design possibilities for developers, e.g. the automation of templates.
Personalization
Customizable user interfaces
The user page not only gives you access to your online profile, but also allows you to store notes. User settings help you to configure functions such as notification mails. And with the help of the dashbo- ard and your personal navigation bar, you can get straight to the topics that are of particular interest for you.
Layout & Design
Adaptation to your corporate design
We can adapt the user interface of BlueSpice pro to your corporate design according to your wishes. This is done by adapting the BlueSpice skin or by in- troducing your own individual skin. The quickest way to design your wiki is using the FlexiSkin function and adapt the logo, colors and backgrounds there.
Responsivity
Access your wiki on the road
You can search, browse and edit articles in your wiki with your mobile devices such as tablet or smartphone. Or take a look at your latest notificati- ons on the go and stay up to date wherever you are.
The following functions are exclusively included in BlueSpice pro:
Quality assurance (BlueSpice pro)
Coordinate appraisals and approvals
Observe articles and get notified about changes. You can assign articles to specific editors or activate a review and approval mechanism. Further functions such as the resubmission of articles or the marking of an article as „obsolete“ complete the quality assurance.
Manuals (BlueSpice pro)
Easy to create and export
Combine individual articles from your Wiki and create manuals, documentations or instructions including navigation. Export your manuals and add file attachments, a clickable table of contents and a cover page in your individual corporate design.
Data analysis / Semantics (BlueSpice pro)
Linking and reading metadata
BlueSpice pro supports the handling of metadata like no other Wiki. Thanks to simple forms, articles can be conveniently enriched with additional information that can be used elsewhere for queries and diagrams. Typical metadata is, for example, the release date, the date of the last editing or information about the author.
Collaboration (BlueSpice pro)
Discuss revisions in a team
With BlueSpice pro you can discuss changes to an article, follow discussions and collect and evaluate ideas. In a central timeline, discussions are merged and become individually filterable. And in the wiki‘s internal blog employees learn about major revisions, campaigns and news from the author community.
About Us
Idea, history and present
BlueSpice is the result of a multitude of MediaWiki projects. Starting point was the development of a company-wide Wiki for IBM Germany in 2007. The project named bluepedia was initiated by Gunter Dueck. The complementary software components were initially distributed under the name HalloWiki Sunrise. In 2010, the "Hallo Welt! Medienwerkstatt" decided to publish their solution under the name BlueSpice for MediaWiki as free software. Today BlueSpice is a brand of Hello Welt! Ltd, a worldwide leading provider and consultant for MediaWiki solutions. With our growing team of over 20 employees, we serve over 200 national and international customers.
Business model
Our company finances itself by selling BlueSpice pro subscriptions. Various services complement our offer (installation, support, customizing, training ... ). In this way, we ensure that your wiki project is professionally planned and optimally implemented and supported after a successful start. In addition, Hallo Welt! Ltd. supplies project customers to implement highly adapted and individually developed wiki solutions.
Sounds interesting? Let‘s wiki together!