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Tiki Wiki CMS (opens in new tab) is a powerful open-source content management system that can be used to create websites, intranet, and web applications. It’s known as Tiki for short.
Tiki functions particularly well as a web-based collaboration tool, and its modular nature allows you to create all manner of websites. For instance, you can add articles, forums, image galleries, quizzes, chats, webmail, and FAQs to your Tiki site.
As Tiki is open source, you can install and use it on your own web hosting at no cost. To better facilitate this, TechRadar has teamed up with Hostinger (opens in new tab) to offer a free shared hosting deal.
The quickest way to start using Tiki is to install it using Hostinger’s Auto Installer. In the Hostinger web administration panel menu, browse to Auto Installer and choose Other. Select Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware from the list.
On the first page of the wizard, you’ll be asked to enter a name for your website and to set administration login details. You can specify the site to be installed in a subdirectory and choose which MySQL database to use.
The second page of the wizard asks which version of Tiki you want to install and whether you want the software to update automatically. Click Install when you’re finished choosing your preferred settings.
On the Auto Installer page, right-click on Tiki and choose Manage. You’ll be taken to the home page for your Tiki installation. You can edit this page later. For now, click on Log in and enter the administrator user credentials you created in step 1.
You are now offered several options for setting up your Tiki site further. Click Start the Wizardry to begin the Configuration Profiles Wizard.
This wizard presents several commonly used template sites to choose from. For instance, you can choose to apply the Company Intranet profile to set your Tiki site to include sections for company news, file repository, and wiki. Or, you could choose Personal Blog and Profile so your site will include a blog, image gallery, RSS integration, and a video log.
Besides these large template profiles, you can also choose to apply smaller profiles that only change certain elements of your Tiki site. You can apply multiple profiles at the same time to customize your site further.
After applying your preferred profile(s), log out and log back into your Tiki site. Select Start Configuration Wizard. This wizard includes all the most common preferences you’ll typically want to change on your Tiki site to make it your own.
The wizard has 18 pages in total, but the pages available to you depend on the features you currently have enabled. For example, if you applied the Small Business Presence profile in step three, File Storage settings will not be covered in the Configuration Wizard because you’re not using that feature.
Run through each page, choosing the right option for your project, and click Save and Continue until you’ve completed the Configuration Wizard.
Further configuration can be performed in the admin menu. Click on the blue cog at the top of the page and click on Features. Here, you can choose a list of features to enable or disable.
By clicking on Control Panels in the System Menu, you can alter the settings of each of the features you enabled.
Browse to any page on your Tiki site and you can click on the Edit button to alter the page’s content.
Tiki uses wiki syntax for formatting. For example, surrounding text in two underscores (e.g., __text__) means the text will be displayed in bold to website visitors. Tiki includes an editor that makes wiki syntax easier to generate as well as a pop-up help tool to remind you of all the available wiki code syntax.
In this guide, we’ve covered how to install Tiki Wiki CMS, a powerful web-based content management system with strong team collaboration features. Tiki requires more initial configuration than the average website application because it offers so much versatility. Ultimately, the ability to fine-tune your website so much leads to a site that better serves your specific purposes.
Versatility is Tiki’s greatest asset. Not only is it a great online collaboration tool (opens in new tab), it is also a powerful content management system (opens in new tab). Tiki can be used as a document management tool (opens in new tab), to build a corporate website (opens in new tab), or for personal blogging (opens in new tab). By giving Tiki the time it deserves to understand its varied and complex systems, it can be used as the foundation for a huge range of internet and intranet applications.
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Polish startup building a solution for traditional document management transition to web 3.0 world, DoxyChain has raised €2.2 million to speed up security, transparency, and business workflow automation.
The early seed round was led by Level2 Ventures and backed by CV VC, Satus Starter, and Müller Medien. The fresh capital infusion will support further product development and foreign expansion to the European and U.S. markets.
Founded in 2019, DoxyChain offers infrastructure for documents, combining traditional frontends with Web 3.0 features. Talking about what’s in the pipeline in the coming months, Gabriel Dymowski, CEO and Co-founder of DoxyChain informed: “In October, we are launching DoxyCert and DoxyConnect. DoxyCert is a toolkit that allows clients to issue blockchain certificates, also as NFTs, which will be used as undeniable proof of authenticity or ownership. The second major platform feature is DoxyConnect, which will serve like a data room. Built on the blockchain, it lets the parties of a document exchange transact in a secure and easy way never seen before.”
Piotr Żelazko, CTO and co-founder of DoxyChain said: “The startup is now building a modular infrastructure that allows clients to develop their own tailored advanced workflows and use cases on top of it. Such an infrastructure will be our seed milestone.”
“The main economic value relies on process automation with smart contracts. Instead of building costly blockchain foundations software developers will focus on improving processes and user interfaces, leaving entire decentralisation and automation to DoxyChain,” added Adam Rudowski, co-founder of Level2 Ventures fund.
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There are many ways that project management can contribute positively to audit quality. It can assist with the management of the audit team and associated resources, with aspects of audit planning, execution and completion, internal and external collaborations and communications, optimising the economics of engagements, and more. When the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) reviewed results of root cause analysis (RCA) of audit weaknesses the shortlist of findings included ‘ineffective project management’.
In a previous Audit & Beyond article, we looked at How to improve audits with project management (at tinyurl.com/AB-Project-Manage). We considered the importance of audit project management, what a framework for this might look like and offered tips to assist firms in shaping and enhancing their approach. In this article we turn our attention to software.
Software can potentially be used to address various aspects of audit project management and this is reflected in the many different types of software and tech-enabled services that may be used to support and enable this. The approach you take will depend on many factors relating to the specific circumstances of your firm. These include, but are unlikely to be restricted to:
It may seem obvious, but for the avoidance of doubt it’s worth stating that when considering technology to enhance aspects of audit project management, the options are not limited to the sorts of tools that come neatly labelled or categorised as ‘project management software’ or specifically signpost their ‘project management’ functionality. For those who want to research and assess a range of options, a brief overview may be helpful.
Depending on the particular circumstances, preferences and priorities of your firm, you may or may not want or need to consider software and services from some or all of the following product groupings (being mindful that some products or services may sit comfortably in more than one grouping). To increase the utility of the following groupings, some of the many available products are offered as ‘examples’, but inclusion does not equate with recommendation.
1. Accountancy-specific and audit-specific systems with functionality that can (be accessed or switched on to) assist with aspects of audit project management.
Examples include the suites of tools provided by the likes of CaseWare and Iris, offering tools for practice management, audit automation and a great deal more accountancy-specific assistance. Karbon is another example, with its collaborative work management platform for accountants. Then there are audit management systems such as Circit and Wolters Kluwer TeamMate, and digital audit platforms such as Inflo.
2. Specialist project management systems that are not sector-specific. The term ‘project management software’ is used to describe software that can be used to manage a project with a start date, an end date and a deliverable (often including workflow automation functionality). You’ll also find the term being used to describe tools for managing ongoing work/workflow and collaboration (although the latter is also in category 3, below).
Examples of project management systems include: Asana, Ganttpro, Height, Hive, Microsoft (MS) Project, Monday, Teamworks, Trello, Smartsheet and Zoho Projects.
3. Software that addresses specific problems or use cases that could assist with some aspects of audit project management.
Some of these function in isolation, and some can be connected to work with other systems, and some ‘add-ons’ operate only when connected to another system or systems (often, with the support of the application programming interfaces, more widely referred to as APIs).
When it comes to the automation of aspects of audit project management, examples range far and wide, from tools that can be used to manage and automate parts of the bank confirmation process (Confirmation), through those that keep engagement financials on track (Dayshape), to tools that enable secure online document sharing – and they are just a few of the many possibilities.
The latter product category alone includes myriad variations on the theme. Suralink, for example, offers a request list and document workflow platform that auditors can use to automate and organise their requests, share documents and track progress. There are also numerous data room and data vault tools and platforms that can be used to securely share and track documents. At one end of the spectrum are relatively simple solutions such as Dropbox Vault; at the other end are the various multifaceted options offered by providers such as Citrix and Microsoft.
4. General-purpose spreadsheets, some of which offer built-in and/or bolt-on functionality that may be used by auditors (and other professionals) for aspects of project management.
As well as the ubiquitous MS Excel, spreadsheet examples include Apple Numbers, Google Sheets and Zoho Sheets, to name but a few.
If your firm is an MS 365 subscriber, you may want to explore MS add-ins for Excel and Teams; this may come in useful for some aspects of audit project management, such as task allocation. Look out for Planner, Tasks by Planner and To Do, which will eventually be renamed as Tasks. Why pay for additional products and services if you don’t need to?
By virtue of its flexibility, the spreadsheet offers almost limitless possibilities. It could be as simple as entering your budget, task list, audit phases, man hours and other things you want to track into multiple sheets. Or you may want to create a visual timeline chart to help you map out a schedule and phases for each audit engagement. If you think a Gantt chart might help with progress tracking, use Excel to create one.
5. Low-code and no-code workflow and business process management tools and platforms that can be used to model, develop/build and deploy automated workflow and processes – both simple and complex – by people with little or no formal coding expertise. These typically work on the ‘drag and drop’, visual design principle. Pre-built functionality and re-usable components that represent particular steps or capabilities can all be connected to create workflows, automate processes and build complex applications. Some of the categories above offer this potential for use with their products so that users can extend and or tailor the functionality already on offer. There are also standalone low-code and no-code tools available.
A recent two-page Audit & Beyond article explored the audit automation possibilities of no-code and low-code tools, so we won’t go into any more detail here.
None of the grouping types or products mentioned are necessarily better or worse than each other, or better able to meet your firm’s needs; there are simply too many variables to consider.
As with many software-related decisions, somebody in your firm will need to do some research. When assessing and comparing products, be sure to consider matters such as: ease of use and implementation, features, functionality, privacy and security, customer support and cost. These can all vary widely.
At some point on your journey, try to make time to explore products that are available as free versions and/or for time-limited free trials, particularly if you are a sole practitioner or in a small firm. It’s worth noting that some of the most expensive products are also the most fully featured and the most complex, so the price and the learning curve can be pretty high.
There’s a great deal of information available online to inform your decision-making process. Watch free demonstrations and check out what’s being said by members of user groups and product groups on social media. There are numerous product-related tutorials available from providers and ‘how to’ tips from users, and you can learn a lot from reviews. Hopefully, this article will equip you with some basic information to get you started.
“Be warned, project management is about a lot more than using software to plan and coordinate activities. IT is a useful tool, but can’t do the entire job for you.”
“Project management tools show us where things are with the audit, to avoid late surprises. They mean audit teams have a better understanding of the status of the audit at any point in the audit process.”
“Using workflow software to set up predefined sequences of steps for some processes and tasks can make things easier for those who are new to the audit team or less experienced.”
“We’ve got better at communicating our expectations to clients during the audit. Better project management technology means we can say: ‘You know what, you’ve not given us these things yet.’”
“If you haven’t used project management software, it’s hard to understand the appeal. There are free online offerings you can play with.”
“A lot of our time is spent in project management. We’ve got a lot of project management tools, so we can actually see the status of the audit.”
“Our project management tools monitor the status of the repository for deliverables and automatically send alerts to remind the client what’s outstanding.”
“When project management is not given the focus it needs, this can lead to inefficiencies within our audit work, which can have both commercial and, more importantly, risk implications.”
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Microsoft has launched Microsoft Syntex, a rebranding of the application as the company transforms it into a set of content apps, low-code tools and services that uses AI to streamline how organizations work with content.
Part of a new category of technology that Microsoft calls “content AI,” Microsoft Syntex—announced at the company’s Ignite conference Wednesday, and formerly called SharePoint Syntex—uses AI to automatically read, tag and index large volumes of content, connecting it where it’s needed in context and integrating offerings from across the Microsoft Cloud, from Microsoft 365 (the newly rebranded Office 365) and Azure to Power Platform and Microsoft Purview.
As processes have become increasingly digitized during the past 10 years or so, a growing number of businesses have moved all their documents into the cloud. Jeff Teper, president of collaborative apps and platforms at Microsoft, says that for Microsoft 365, that rate has grown tenfold over the last five years alone, with an average of 1.6 billion documents added to Microsoft 365 every day.
While moving toward a paperless society brought with it the promise of efficiency, the number of documents now being stored digitally has reached a critical point, meaning people are wasting vital time searching and sifting through digital files to find necessary information. Furthermore, organizations are estimated to spend $46 billion a year storing and managing content from which they derive little value.
“It’s not to say you shouldn’t have lawyers review contracts, but if you can have the AI scan a 200-page contract and say: ‘These are the three clauses that changed from the boilerplate,’ that can dramatically save companies time and money,” Teper said.
Microsoft Syntex supports more than 300 different types of content and comprises 11 capabilities. These are:
Larry Cannell, senior director analyst at Gartner said that rebranding SharePoint Syntex as Microsoft Syntex indicates that the new capabilities will play a broader role in Microsoft’s AI portfolio.
Cannell added that he’s skeptical of Microsoft’s use of “content AI” to describe Syntex, as its description of this market looks a lot like what the industry has called content management for years.
“Nevertheless, if the value is there, Syntex will give Microsoft customers more choice in meeting their content processing needs,” he said.
Teper explained that the technology Microsoft uses for its so-called prebuilt AI models, which include optical character recognition or language translation, have become increasingly refined as part of Azure Cognitive Services. This has allowed Microsoft to take platform capabilities from elsewhere in its technology stack and build them into Syntex.
However, while Microsoft is still offering APIs for professional developers, the company has tried to identify patterns that make it possible for customers to solve their unique needs without writing any custom code.
As a result, many of the capabilities that make up Microsoft Syntex employ the use of low code and no code, enabling users with little to no coding experience to get the most out of Microsoft Syntex.
Built on Microsoft’s Power Platform, a set of low-code tools for building apps, workflows, AI bots, and data analytics, Teper explains that the coding capabilities will allow users to easily create workflows and automate business processes in a way that allows them to be tailored to their exact needs.
“Success with this integration will be more dependent on Power Automate’s resiliency than Syntex’s ability to call a flow,” Gartner’s Cannell said, adding that although he is intrigued by Syntex’s integration with Power Automate, it’s still unclear if customers will embrace the use of a no-code solution built into their mainstream content processes.
Microsoft Syntex is available now, including document processing, annotation, content assembly, content query, accelerators and more. More services are coming to public preview later this year with the rest to follow in 2023.
Microsoft will also be introducing a consumption business model for Syntex, allowing customers to scale up the family of services to best suit their needs.
Charlotte Trueman is a staff writer at Computerworld. She joined IDG in 2016 after graduating with a degree in English and American Literature from the University of Kent. Trueman covers collaboration, focusing on videoconferencing, productivity software, future of work and issues around diversity and inclusion in the tech sector.
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