# TWiki Reviews **Vendor:** TWiki **Category:** [Knowledge Base Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/knowledge-base-software) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 ## About TWiki TWiki - the Open Source Enterprise Wiki and Web Application Platform ## TWiki Reviews ### 1. Used it for intranet in our company **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carmen B. | Operations Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2022 **What do you like best about TWiki?** It was our first intranet in the company before we migrated to Confluence. Opensource is a plus, as far as i remember, the look was rather rudimentary **What do you dislike about TWiki?** The look of the interface back then, 9 years ago, search indexing **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** Intranet, all documentation in one place ### 2. Powerful platform to collaborate in more secure way with feature to extend functionalities :) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2021 **What do you like best about TWiki?** I have used other collaboration tools, but believe me, TWiki is a gem for developers. The way it provides the option to extend features or content management in a secure manner is incredible. **What do you dislike about TWiki?** if you new to TWiki you need to give time **Recommendations to others considering TWiki:** if you are concerned about your content, you should use it. personally, i like it **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am admin for TWiki in a MNC and daily fixing lot of issues reported by end users ### 3. TWiki is a PERL based content management system, quite effective, lightweight and easy to use. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit K. | Senior Technology Lead / Lead Engineer - HCL Contractor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2020 **What do you like best about TWiki?** It was simple and easy to use, and You can install own version of your TWiki in your organization, It also has various plugin supports and and can be integrated with other software's like LDAP etc. **What do you dislike about TWiki?** To efficiently use the features of TWiki it require certain level of training, it will not be a straightforward things. Users need to understand how the Concepts of Web, Topic and attachment is linked. and there could be the cases where One Topic acts as a Parent for another Topics. So this architecture will involve certain learning curves. Also initial setup will require certain efforts, like setting up Apache Web server first, then we need to install perl module / compile the perl module in apache. It is nice to have exposure of PERL for a TWiki administrator. **Recommendations to others considering TWiki:** TWiki as a Content Management option could be great, but you need to have a good administrator who can smoothly setup TWiki for you and can look upon issues on day to days basis. **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were trying to develop plugin in TWiki which will serve the Topic content to 3rd party software's like Google Search Appliances and other search engines. As TWiki pages are rendered from template it cannot be a straightforward web crawling, by crawlers. as 'view source' operation on TWiki page will just render template code, without any html body it's difficult to crawl the page. The plugin which we developed help the Google Search Appliances and other Search engines to get the exact content from the template so the search can be fired upon such content. ### 4. Best Platform to learn **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kathula Santhosh K. | Business Development Manager/US IT Recruiter/Bench Sales Recruiter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2021 **What do you like best about TWiki?** I like the best thing to see each subheadings for all skills to learn and made easy to search. lot of information to learn **What do you dislike about TWiki?** I like to see more videos..also i see just Home button at top...try to add more there and some some heading are not working **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** Best way to web search about my work skills ### 5. Plenty of features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhawani S. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2021 **What do you like best about TWiki?** It is a great tool to manage the test planning and design documents. **What do you dislike about TWiki?** It would be nice if Twiki would have Bugzilla/Jira plugins that can be integrated so that updates to documents can be easily synched. **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to manage multiple process documents. Twiki has rich features that give us the flexibility to maintain process documents. Some of the plugin used were: ChartPlugin: helped to plot charts to analyze data. SlideShowPlugin: helped to created a nice presentation out of design documents. ### 6. Twiki for visualization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vijayalaxmi B. | Deputy Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2021 **What do you like best about TWiki?** Twiki is a powerful platform to visualize the data from different sources. Connection to database. Very easy to plot different charts. Easy queries. **What do you dislike about TWiki?** The error messages from twiki can be improved. **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** Plotting charts from a database. Helps in my presentations to the management. ### 7. Twiki made collaburation easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pradeep J. | S, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2021 **What do you like best about TWiki?** Easy markup like feature. Makes documentation & tracking easy **What do you dislike about TWiki?** Was not in a position to upload any pictures **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** Project co-ordination ### 8. An excellent knowledge sharing base & handy tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Animesh B. | Corporate Strategy - Senior Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2021 **What do you like best about TWiki?** Ease of use & sharing being an open source platform **What do you dislike about TWiki?** Sometimes feels crowded in the user interface bit needs tweaks **Recommendations to others considering TWiki:** Ease to launch internally. Will help individuals sharing it as knowledge base **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping spread knowledge ideas for game development ### 9. TWIKI newgen wiki next **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2021 **What do you like best about TWiki?** Internal wiki contents, easy to modify, scalable, and has coding similar to WikiMedia, have all features that support the entire feature wiki. **What do you dislike about TWiki?** Updating Twiki content template is quite challenging for newbies **Recommendations to others considering TWiki:** I will recommend for Linux version TWiki **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** Twiki used during my work at RV-VLSI Design Center and enriched rich experience in modifying and upbringing wiki ### 10. Brad's Twiki Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bradley B. | Technical Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2021 **What do you like best about TWiki?** I enjoy the kbs knowledge bay where you can get answer to common FAQs **What do you dislike about TWiki?** Some of the interface is slow on loading content **Recommendations to others considering TWiki:** Nothing at this time **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** Adding additional knowledge and documentation. Very good reference bank. ### 11. It is quite friendly when it comes to preparation of tWiki pages featuring taks and tables **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2021 **What do you like best about TWiki?** The ease of scripting langues and syntax **What do you dislike about TWiki?** The fitment of pages and minimal dynamic editing **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tasks Repository , Maintenance of data, records ### 12. Twiki is really good tool for documentation. It provides lots of flexibility to user. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2020 **What do you like best about TWiki?** It has many features which users can use while developing low level design for any application. **What do you dislike about TWiki?** There’s nothing which I didn’t like..... **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped me developing very interactive flow diagrams. ### 13. Great tool for storing and sharing documentations in companies **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shandong H. | Senior Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2019 **What do you like best about TWiki?** It can either store the data in a database, or in files directly. The latter is also the traditional way for TWiki to store data. I prefer the latter since it's very easy to manage those directories and files, and problems if any can be fixed very easily. Storing data in database may sound convenient since you can query the data easily using SQL, but when it's not a short string or some numbers but a whole article, then personally I think that storing in files is a better way. This distinct it from other wikis. **What do you dislike about TWiki?** It is made in Perl in the CGI way, which is kind of a very old technology, and it could be slower comparing with wikis made in PHP or other languages. Personally I used mod-perl to solve this problem, but other wikis can achieve similar performance without such additional effort. **Recommendations to others considering TWiki:** I like TWiki and I am still using an old version of it (with many modifications by me) at home to keep my own information. I'd like to recommend it to anyone interested in finding a wiki tool to manage documents. **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I joined Lehman Brothers and started a new project, I found that there was no official way to keep and share documents (at least in that department). I prefer to document important things for my own use as well as sharing with other people. So I installed TWiki in a Linux box. It became so popular that I was asked to create some separate topics for other teams. Eventually the company adopted it and asked system admins to install it officially for teams to use. ### 14. Easy to create a knowledge base and daily update sheet **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2020 **What do you like best about TWiki?** In our organisation we used twiki for documantion and knowledge base. We have almost create a complete knowledge base for each team's regarding there task , research and also added the supported documents. We have used twiki as organisation Google page where any one can find any information regarding the team who create knowledge base for their team. **What do you dislike about TWiki?** It should flexible with excel. The table created in Excel we cannot directly copy and paste inside the twiki page. We need to first check in html fix it's styling then the page looks correct. **Recommendations to others considering TWiki:** Go for it. **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** Twiki provide my organisation a platform where each team kept here valuable information and if information is shared other member can use it from same place altering is very easy. ### 15. Awesome Product for documentation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Drayanna L. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2019 **What do you like best about TWiki?** I like that multiple people could access and contribute to the documentation in our department. **What do you dislike about TWiki?** Perhaps the original setup is a little tedious but if you take the time to make it right you good to go for duration of the product. **Recommendations to others considering TWiki:** Great product for collaborating team tasks **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collaborating together as a team for a single cause to have the best documentation that is specific to our purpose. ### 16. TWiki as a collaborative and authoring tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitish R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2019 **What do you like best about TWiki?** I liked the various plugins and version history feature **What do you dislike about TWiki?** I dislike the user interface of TWiki platform **Recommendations to others considering TWiki:** Twiki is effective authoring tool **What problems is TWiki solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solved the licensing problem of our software through various TWiki Plugins ## TWiki Discussions - [What is TWiki used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-twiki-used-for) - 1 comment - [View TWiki pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/twiki/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+16%3A05%3A50+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d495d242-259f-4041-a71d-a69b3a1374bc&secure%5Btoken%5D=7b2213a718bb0be4e9e45e3d597e6399025b26a096300dcfdfe33a64af13affc&format=llm_user) ## TWiki Features **Knowledge Pages** - Templates - In-Content Feedback - Versioning and Version History - Decision Trees - Duplicate Detection - Content Editor **Knowledge Base** - Q & A - Link Sharing - Searchable **Knowledge Dissemination** - Page Analytics - Permissions - Knowledge Sharing - Notifications - Advanced Search - Browser Extension - Organization - Other Integrations - Knowledge Integrations **Security** - Verification - Role-Based Permission - Public vs Private **Agentic AI - Knowledge Base** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Content** - Trackable Analytics - Import - File Viewing - Update Notifications **Communication** - Social Features - Tagging - Upload - Comments ## Top TWiki Alternatives - [Confluence](https://www.g2.com/products/confluence/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (4,225 reviews) - [Notion](https://www.g2.com/products/notion/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (10,700 reviews) - [Guru](https://www.g2.com/products/guru/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,254 reviews)