Intranets or communities that want a fully FOSS stack, and do not want to or can't rely on external services.

Distributed SME

• Small and medium enterprises including co-ops and nonprofit organization
• Typically with at least one physical office
• 10-100 employees *If an organization has less than 10 employees, it may not be necessary to have the complete Suite with LDAP and all. It can be simpler to just use Tiki and e-mail accounts from typical shared hosting. When the organization grows and needs increase, it's easy to migrate from "Just Tiki" to the complete Tiki Suite.
  • Good proportion of knowledge workers
  • Typically with some Homesourcing
  • Not just full-time staff but freelancers & partners need access to the information system.
  • Diverse clients (Windows/MacOS/Linux/Tablets/Mobile)
  • In a service/knowledge industry but not manufacturing
    • OK to have a web shopping cart and inventory

This represents millions & millions of organizations.

Examples

• A law firm
• Charity
• Economic development agency
• Think tank
• Municipality or Government agency (less than 100 employees)
• non-governmental organization (NGO)
• Marketing/digital agency
• Sports Association, Community organization, etc.
• Web shop
• Insurance broker
• Real estate broker
• Translation agencies
• Travel agency
• etc.

Web agency

A web agency uses Tiki to deploy various Web projects for its customers. An example of this is CGCOM.

Tiki along with shared hosting does a great job of this out-of-the-box. However, if the web agency wanted to manage the hosting including e-mail with FOSS, this will be covered in a second phase of Tiki Suite.

SMEs are using Tiki as part of their operations while Web agencies are using Tiki as part of their services. Of course a web agency is also an SME and could also use Tiki for its operations.

ERP

Tiki Suite is intended first for a typical SME. A law firm, a web agency, a charity etc. ERP typically involves manufacturing and a warehouse. This is not planned for phase 1 of Tiki Suite, but could be added if enough people get involved to make it happen.

Other use cases

As we go, we'll perhaps add more. Please see: Tiki Suite Specialized components

And see Use Cases