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SMW+ is an open source semantic enterprise wiki that makes it easy for your team to cope with knowledge-intensive processes and to leverage the hidden knowledge locked in content. SMW+ combines the collaborative authoring approach with proven semantic technology. This section is dedicated to use cases, customer stories and applications of SMW+. Let us know if you have an interesting use case to report on.

Use Cases

	BI-Team, Netherlands, uses SMW+ as Knowledge Management platform for its Business Intelligence framework. Read more on how SMW+ supports BI processes via iterative knowledge formalization and structuring.
	UNESCO/IOC, uses SMW+ as online encyclopedia and training center about marine data and oceanic knowledge. Read more about UNESCO's OceanTeacher to see how SMW+ leverages target appropriated presentation and collaboration on wiki contents.
	A Fortune 100 Pharma company, applies SMW+ as self-service portal for its R&D department. Read more about the R&D portal in pharma industry to learn how SMW+ supports the process of generating reports, integrating and assembling data from distinct data stores.
	The Italian cooperative bank Banca Romagna Cooperativa employs SMW+ for a Business Process Reengineering project involving the conduction of task surveys, analysis and process consolidation. Learn more about this use case.
	Siemens China deploys SMW+ as cross-organizational platform for Communities of Practice. Learn more how the communities benefit from the semantic capabilities for effectively sharing and retrieving knowledge.

Who else is using SMW+

	3M Health Information Systems, runs an SMW+ powered wiki to facilitate collaboration among consumers and developers of health care terminologies.
	DHBW Karlsruhe, Germany, applies SMW+ for internal project management purposes and training materials.
	ETH Zürich, jointly operates SMW+ as a knowledge backend with other research institutes to collect and organize neuroanatomical knowledge (read the semantic minds interview with the founder of "Connectome", a spin-off of this initiative: interview with Stephan Gerhard).
	Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart, Germany, aims to use SMW+ to realize an integrated knowledge management for products, processes and machines for flexible production on industrial shop floor level.
	Mayo Clinic, employs several SMW+ powered wikis in collaboration with the NCI and the WHO for the distributed development of medical terminologies and ontologies.
	Monitor Group, USA, provides its consulting workforce with a team wiki based on SMW+.
	Siemens AG, Germany, maintains an internal portal for employees to better serve internal support requests.
	Stream, a dutch consulting company runs the SMW+ enabled ProcessWiki, as an platform for sharing business process models.
	Umicore, Germany, evaluates SMW+ due to the beneficial ontology functions, which can be applied profitably in the core business.
	AOK Systems, Germany, employs SMW+ as a knowledge base of an expert system for error analysis and as knowledge management tool for administrators that can be used in collaborative way. Read more (external link).

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