SMW: a good working environment for small businesses

Ad Strack van Schijndel

29−10−2013

SMW as working environment for small businesses

Topics

• Some background and context

• Why is SMW a good platform for small businesses

Small businesses

Find prospects

Make proposals

Agree on work

Execute work Send invoice

Provide support

BookkeepingPricing

Hrs, mat

CRM

Projects

Invoicing

DocumentsInstructions

Standard software generally provides sub-optimal solution

Standard software solution

My workflow

This is a problem, also for small businesses that cannot afford custom built software

SMW provides an excellent platform for custom made solutions

SMW + extensions

Standards, features, reeusables

Custom wiki

Why is Semantic MediaWiki such a good platform for small businesses?

• All information in one place

All information in one place

• Database type

• Wiki type

• Document typeIn

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Flex

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Why is Semantic MediaWiki such a good platform for small businesses?

• All information in one place

• Support for the workflow

Support for the workflow

Find prospects

Make proposals

Agree on work

Execute work Send invoice

Provide support

Printing (CSS)

Flexibility (Regex)

Flexibility with regex Enabled by 'the SMW way'

• Input: First name, Last name • Properties: First name, Last name, Initials, last name

prefix, last name body

• Input: (020) 1234 567 • Property value: +31 20 1234 567

• Input: email message text • Property: text, sender, receiver, relates to order,

Why is Semantic MediaWiki such a good platform for small businesses?

• All information in one place

• Support for the workflow

• Response to change requests

Response to change requests

Extension:CategoryWatch

} < 1 hr - never

Why is Semantic MediaWiki such a good platform for small businesses?

• All information in one place

• Support for the workflow

• Response to change requests

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Questions?

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