# About Abilian SBE

## Features

Abilian SBE (Social Business Engine) is a platform for social business applications, and more specifically collaborative / enterprise 2.0 business applications, such as enterprise social networks (ESN).

Abilian SBE revolves around the concept of *communities*, which are collaborative spaces with services such as lightweight document management, discussions, wikis, user timelines, etc.

It is written in Python and based on Flask and SQLAlchemy.

Abilian SBE is used by several major customers in production, since mid 2013.


## Installation

See [installation instructions](./installation.md).
