Ask Slashdot: Knowledge Management Systems?

Tom writes: Is there an enterprise level equivalent of Semantic MediaWiki, a Knowledge Management System that can store meaningful facts and allows queries on it? I'm involved in a pretty large IT project and would like to have the documentation in something better than Word. I'd like it to be in a structured format that can be queried, without knowing all the questions that will be asked in the future. I looked extensively, and while there are some graphing or network layout tools that understand predicates, they don't come with a query language. SMW has both semantic links and queries, but as a wiki is very free-form and it's not exactly an Enterprise product (I don't see many chances to convince a government to use it). Is there such a thing?

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enterprise grade is weasel.

[nimbius]

Kinda offtopic, but bear with me. Enterprise grade is what closed source rolled out once they started losing sales to well maintained and stable open source projects. it comes with support contracts and licenses, but not much else. Just as many closed vendors will disappoint you with their support as open source. You could argue wikimedia is enterprise grade, because it supports 1.21 million accounts. but unless and until the business is committed to defining exactly what they mean by "enterprise grade" you have nothing to go on other than "software that requires a purchase order and recurring license"

that having been said, check out foswiki. search and control are all pretty good.

Re:enterprise grade is weasel.

[Kohath]

Theoretically. In actual reality, seeking a legal remedy is very expensive and is reserved for extreme problems.

The real leverage is the money you're going to pay them next year. Or not pay them.

The answer would seem to be "no"

[msobkow]

Seeing as I've seen Tom reject every single suggestion anyone has had, I guess the answer to his question is "No."