The advantages of the Content Services Platform

The Wikibase Content Services Platform offers many advantages over Confluence, read all about the applications and USPs of our Content Services Platform.

Content Services Platforms help organizations manage documents, records and related content items. The Wikibase Solutions Content Services Platform (CSP) is an open source, integrated platform that uses the MediaWiki framework. A CSP is an important component in modern digitization.

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What is a Content Services Platform?

As a powerful tool for collaboration, the CSP supports digital business operations and digital transformation and offers:

Knowledge platform as a central source of all knowledge and data within the organization	Content use cases from across the organization for excellent team integration	Installation, setup and configuration - made easy
Functionality through (sub)services in CSP modules, cloud-based	Flexible (sub)services, solutions and business processing tools focused on content	Repositories and APIs are shared

The Wikibase CSP offers interesting advantages over Confluence.

What is the difference between Confluence and MediaWiki?

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	Confluence	Mediawiki	Mediawiki + Wikibase CSP
Open Source
Enterprise tools
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Customization possible
WYSIWYG + Storage of structured data
Easy setup of structured data
Smart search with facet filters
Revision management
Responsive UI
Custom e-mail notifications
No license cost

What are the advantages of our CSP?

Open source from codebase to deployment
License costs and vendor lock-in are avoided
Secure environment, security patches are provided from the community
Flexible structure of spaces and user groups
Free cloud choice, accessible and responsive through use of Kubernetes
All within one domain
State of the art search functionality:
- ElasticSearch-based search engine that automatically accommodates to the metadata structure of the platform
- Filters are dynamically matched to the search
- Create your own search pages with preset filters
- Neo4j graph database

VisualEditor: a state of the art text editor that is also used on Wikipedia. Seamlessly combined with any metadata you wish to add.

Integrations with, for example, GitLab as an online, intuitive DevOps tool
Flexible customization that supports your specific organizational processes through the following functionalities:
- Use queries for overviews, like for example a list of recent contributions
- Add metadata to documents: add any metadata you like, to create a system of queryable content
- Create advanced pages, showing queried data
- Insert templates, such as checklists
- Create layouts, such as a full-page layout or a split-page layout
- Expand, extend or customize your platform with great ease

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