USI 2009 Session

Collaborative offers for businesses are exploding, and we’re seeing two types of tools dominate the market: Wiki and CMS. Wikis are bulking up with so-called second-generation functions, supporting applications and structured content. CMS, on the other hand, are offering more and more tools to collaborate on content for publishing.

Although CMS and Wikis tend to resemble each other, this presentation will highlight their radically different approaches:
 

• the organization of the companies using them (closed versus open, i.e. security a priori or security a posteriori)

• the organization of content (structured versus unstructured)

• application development (traditional \"application then data\" versus \"data then applications\" development)

However, with the arrival of new technologies pushed by Google, Facebook and Yahoo in particular (social networks, gadgets, Ajax, APIs Javascript) the technological platforms of collaborative tools are converging. We will present our view of the collaborative platform of the future.