Summary of Article: Wiki's Use in Companies

In May of 2008 David Weekly in the LinuxInsider noted how wiki's are improving collaboration in addition to productivity, and providing a straightforward platform for teamwork. The wiki platform is especially useful for teams that are distributed around the world because wiki's allow for a more effortless development overtime due to how easily change is adopted by the wiki. Not only is the wiki beneficial to the distributed team but it also works well within small offices as the staff at Design Commission has discovered. This tight knit company uses their wiki to record notes from various meetings, store important information for software and Web-based tools, store contact information, and plan for events. Studio Director of Design Commission David Conrad states, "We figure that we save on the order of an hour per week for each of our six team members, and we hope it will be more than that in the long run. Conservatively, we're improving productivity at least $2,000 per month." (Weekly). Whether the business model is expansive or condensed wiki's are beneficial to the collaborative efforts and productivity of teams and the business on a whole when they are used by companies.