WikIT42 - Structure for IT Division and IT Products

After introducing Confluence three times in three different companies I made a template which consists the best practices of how you could structure your IT Division and IT Products within your organisation. Although the three different companies have completely different domains (marketing, payment and environmental services) the stucture of the division and products are quite the same. So if you need to introduce Confluence in your company and you would like to bring the "product team" together, just take a look at WikIT42: http://bit.ly/wikit42en

A German version can be found here: http://bit.ly/wikit42de

For discussion I open a Gitter chat at: https://gitter.im/wikit42

Enjoy,
Lofi

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Introduction
Last week I had a chance to try the Smart Home solution from Gigaset Elements. I read some articles about this product which said how easy to install this product for dummy users. Those articles woke my interest and I began to google products for Smart Home solutions.

In this article (German language) you will find a nice overview about some products for Smart Home, which can be bought in Germany. The Nest product from Google is still not available in Germany. Although it seems that RWE will offer Nest products in Germany in couple of months.

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Points to mention
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