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Five Enterprise 2.0 Startups To Watch: Page 2 of 2

  • OpenTeams: OpenTeams claims it has "reinvented" the wiki, and sure enough it's come close with an interface that greets users with a three-pane look and feel reminiscent of Microsoft Outlook. The left-hand pane is a list of topics and colleagues to track, the middle pane lists documents that fall within individual topics or are created by those colleagues, and the right pane shows an individual document. OpenTeams also makes it easier to track changes to the wiki -- something often tough to do without looking at individual page history -- by notifying users of any changes made to a page they've been tracking. Another smartly added feature: integrating related wiki pages into a hierarchical "briefing" or narrative view of an idea or proposal.
  • Mindquarry: It's advisable to pay attention when SAP co-founder and chairman Hasso Plattner invests in something. One of those ventures is Mindquarry, an open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint that includes a Java-based desktop client with features for file and document sharing, task management, wiki editing, and collaboration in chat rooms and forums. The current product is downloadable, but next week at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, the company will announce a hosted service for businesses that want to get Mindquarry up and running quickly.