Make this use case easier, or just parts of it; for all critical IT infrastructure that isn't core to my business:
I'm looking for a wiki program to run. I want to force people to login before they can read any of the wiki (it's for internal use). It also needs to support LDAP.
Currently, I load up Wikipedia and find their table (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software). I can then take that table and import it directly into a Google Spreadsheet, which lets me do better filtering. Hopefully the table on Wikipedia has the fields for the comparison I want. If not, I have to go and fill out the list myself (and then add it to Wikipedia). I then spend the next few days playing around with the short list until I'm satisfied with my choice; then implement.
Thats all well and good. But I'm not the IT department! Okay, as a startup, I am, but it isn't core to my business. And I feel like it has got to be a solved problem. How about for inventory tracking? A trouble ticket system? Etc.
This shouldn't be that difficult.
Asking people what they use certainly helps, but they may or may not have the same requirements.
As an app, a better way to use tables on Wikipedia would be great (especially when things are split across multiple tables as the list of wiki software is).
(I'm not affiliated, but while writing up my use case, I came across this: http://www.wikimatrix.org )
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Make this use case easier, or just parts of it; for all critical IT infrastructure that isn't core to my business:
I'm looking for a wiki program to run. I want to force people to login before they can read any of the wiki (it's for internal use). It also needs to support LDAP.
Currently, I load up Wikipedia and find their table (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software). I can then take that table and import it directly into a Google Spreadsheet, which lets me do better filtering. Hopefully the table on Wikipedia has the fields for the comparison I want. If not, I have to go and fill out the list myself (and then add it to Wikipedia). I then spend the next few days playing around with the short list until I'm satisfied with my choice; then implement.
Thats all well and good. But I'm not the IT department! Okay, as a startup, I am, but it isn't core to my business. And I feel like it has got to be a solved problem. How about for inventory tracking? A trouble ticket system? Etc.
This shouldn't be that difficult.
Asking people what they use certainly helps, but they may or may not have the same requirements.
As an app, a better way to use tables on Wikipedia would be great (especially when things are split across multiple tables as the list of wiki software is).
(I'm not affiliated, but while writing up my use case, I came across this: http://www.wikimatrix.org )