Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) is the international investment banking arm of Dresdner Bank. Based in Europe, but with a global reach (London/Franfurt/Tokyo/Singapore/Hong Kong etc), DrKW provides a range of capital markets and advisory services, including: mergers and acquisitions assistance; listing companies that wish to go to market; providing structured finance for the funding of large scale projects; treasury and capital markets transactions; and risk management solutions.

They have implemented SocialText for their Enterprise Wiki, Socialtext carries a case study of the same. Please find below excerpts of the same:

"We already had a wiki that was heavily used by IT," said Myrto Lazopoulou, Director of User Experience, "but we wanted to bring business people on board to enhance collaboration and communication between IT and the business. We wanted a platform for both groups, not something that's used just by IT."

The first wiki at DrKW was installed in 1997, at a time when the bank was using Documentum, Media Surface and Frontpage to create a static intranet. Having learned how useful wikis can be, DrKW wanted to expand their wiki usage and began examining Socialtext in March 2004. They tested it in July 2004 and then installed a Socialtext appliance in the third quarter of 2004.

The DrKW installation of Socialtext, internally branded as DrKWikipedia, sits alongside a traditional intranet; B2Evolution blogs; the Microsoft Sharepoint collaboration and communication service; and the MindAlign instant messenger client. The aim was to allow users to swap instantaneously between different modes of communication, depending on which is most appropriate.

According to JP Rangaswami, who was then Global CIO and is now Head of Alternative Market Models, Socialtext was chosen because "they were a company willing to work with us on the implications of better authentication, permissioning and sharing of information between communications silos. We needed to work with an organisation that understands where the future is heading, has the right attitude to building technology, and understood that the information needs to migrate across multiple communications mediums.

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Prashanth Rai