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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". This list is divided into proprietary or free software, and open source software, with several comparison tables of different product and vendor characteristics. It also includes a section of project collaboration software, which is a standard feature in collaboration platforms.
General
Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.
General Information
Comparison of unified communications features
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| Name | E-mail server | Faxing | Instant messaging | Telephony | Videoconferencing | Web conferencing | Data conferencing | Application sharing | Electronic meeting system | Synchronous conferencing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Rh| IBM Sametime | No, integrated with Lotus Domino | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Template:Rh| IBM Lotus Domino | Yes | Yes | Yes with integrated Sametime | Yes with integrated Sametime | Yes with integrated Sametime | Yes with integrated Sametime | No | Yes with integrated Sametime | Yes with integrated Sametime | No |
| Template:Rh| IceWarp Mail Server | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Template:Rh| Microsoft Exchange Server | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Template:Rh| Microsoft Lync Server | No, integrated with Exchange Server | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Template:Rh| Microsoft SharePoint | No, integrated with Exchange Server | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Template:Rh| Nextcloud | Yes | Yes, email to VOIP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes collaborative editing with integrated video conferencing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Name | E-mail server | Faxing | Instant messaging | Telephony | Videoconferencing | Web conferencing | Data conferencing | Application sharing | Electronic meeting system | Synchronous conferencing |
Comparison of collaborative software features
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| Name | Wikis | Web publishing | Calendaring software | Project management | Workflow system | Document management | List management | XML Forms management and workflow | Discussion | Blogs | Surveys | Time tracking | Business intelligence | Charting | Bookmarking, Tagging, Rating and Comments | Social software | Enterprise search | Office suite |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Rh| Easy Redmine | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Template:Rh| EGroupware | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, web, webdav |
| Template:Rh| Google Workspace | Yes, Sites | Yes, Sites | Yes | No | No | Yes, simple | No | Yes, simple | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Template:Rh| IBM Connections | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, simple | Yes | Yes, simple | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Template:Rh| IBM Lotus Domino | No | No | Yes | Yes, simple | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Template:Rh| IceWarp Mail Server | No | No | Yes | Yes, simple | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Template:Rh| InLoox | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, limited | Yes | Yes | Yes, MS Office Interface |
| Template:Rh| Jive Software | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, simple | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, MS Office Interface |
| Template:Rh| Kune | Yes | In development | Yes | Yes, simple | No | Yes | yes, wave-based | No | Yes | Yes | yes (gadget) | No | No | No | In development | Yes | No | Real-time collaborative documents |
| Template:Rh| Microsoft Exchange Server | No | No | Yes | Yes, simple | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Template:Rh| Microsoft Office | No | No | No | No | No | Yes, simple | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes, desktop |
| Template:Rh| Microsoft Project Server | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Template:Rh| Microsoft SharePoint | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, simple | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, web |
| Template:Rh| Microsoft Team Foundation Server | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Template:Rh| Nextcloud | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, limited | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes, limited | Yes | Yes, limited | Yes | Yes, limited | Yes |
| Template:Rh|Smartsheet | No | Yes[9] | Yes[10] | Yes[11] | Yes[12] | Yes[13] | Yes | No | Yes[14] | No | Yes[15] | Yes[16] | No | Yes[17] | No | No | Yes[18] | Yes, MS Office Interface |
| Template:Rh| Traction TeamPage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, simple | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes, plug-in | Yes, basic | No | Yes, usage charts, API | Yes | Yes, plug-in | Yes | Yes, web, webdav |
| Template:Rh| Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, simple | Yes | Yes | Yes (newsletter) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes (basic) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, web |
| Template:Rh| Wrike | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes, web |
| Template:Rh| Xaitporter | No | No | Yes, limited | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes, webdav |
| Template:Rh| Trello | No | No | Yes, limited | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Template:Rh|XWiki Enterprise | Yes | Yes | Yes, extension | Yes, extension | Yes, extension | Yes, extension | Yes, extension | Yes, extension | Yes, extension | Yes | Yes, extension | No | No | Yes, extension | Yes, and extension for rating | Yes | Yes, (Lucene/SolR) | Yes, web |
| Template:Rh|Zoho Projects | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes, limited | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, limited | Yes | No | Yes, web |
| Name | Wikis | Web publishing | Calendaring software | Project management | Workflow system | Document management | List management | XML Forms management and workflow | Discussion | Blogs | Surveys | Time tracking | Business intelligence | Charting | Bookmarking, Tagging, Rating and Comments | Social software | Enterprise search | Office suite |
Comparison of targets
| Name | Public | Intranet | Extranet | Personal Sites | Team Sites | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Rh| IBM Connections | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Template:Rh| IBM Lotus Domino | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Template:Rh| IBM Lotus QuickPlace | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Template:Rh| Microsoft Exchange Server | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Template:Rh| Microsoft Office Live Communications Server | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Template:Rh| Microsoft SharePoint | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Template:Rh| Microsoft Team Foundation Server | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Template:Rh| Nextcloud | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Name | Public | Intranet | Extranet | Personal Sites | Team Sites | Developer |
Open source software
The following are open source applications for collaboration:
Standard client–server software
- Access Grid, for audio and video-based collaboration
- Axigen
- Citadel/UX, with support for native groupware clients (Kontact, Novell Evolution, Microsoft Outlook) and web interface
- Cyn.in
- EGroupware, with support for native groupware clients (Kontact, Novell Evolution, Microsoft Outlook) and web interface
- Group-Office groupware and CRM
- Kolab, various native PIM clients
- Kopano
- OpenGroupware.org
- phpGroupWare
- Scalix
- SOGo, integrated email, calendaring with Apple iCal, Mozilla Thunderbird and native Outlook compatibility
- Teambox, Basecamp-style project management software with focus on GTD task management and conversations. (Only V3 and prior are open-source.)
- Zarafa
- Zentyal, with support for native groupware clients (Kontact, Novell Evolution) natively for Microsoft Outlook and web interface
- Zimbra
- Zulip
Groupware: Web-based software
- Axigen
- Bricolage, content management system
- BigBlueButton, Web meetings
- Collabora Online, Enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice enabling real-time collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics
- DotNetNuke, also called DNN: module-based, evolved from ASP 1.0 demo applications
- EGroupware, a free open source groupware software intended for businesses from small to enterprises
- EtherPad, collaborative drafting with chat
- Feng Office Community Edition
- FusionForge, has wiki, forums, mailing lists, FTP, SSH, subdomains, hosting, email alias, backups, CVS/SVN, task management
- Group-Office, Web-based groupware for sharing calendars, files, e-mail, CRM, Projects, Mobile Synchronization and much more.
- Horde
- HumHub a free and open-source enterprise social network solution
- IceWarp Server
- Jumper 2.0, collaborative search engine and knowledge management platform
- Kolab Groupware, integrated Roundcube web frontend
- Kune, collaborative federated social network, based on Apache Wave
- Loomio, for making decisions together (AGPL).
- MediaWiki, which provides core content management and integrates with many other tools via extensions
- Nextcloud, file hosting service, functionally similar to Dropbox, Office 365 or Google Drive when used with its integrated office suite solutions Collabora Online or OnlyOffice
- OnlyOffice Community Server, available for Microsoft and Linux
- OpenBroadcaster LPFM IPTV broadcast automation tools
- Overleaf for creating LaTeX documents
- phpGroupWare
- Simple Groupware
- SOGo, integrated email, calendaring with Apple iCal, Mozilla Thunderbird and native Outlook compatibility
- Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, has wiki, forums, calendar, ticket system, workflow engine
- Tine 2.0
- Tonido, free collaborative software with workspace synchronizing, Web access from personal desktop; cross-platform
- Zarafa, full MAPI MS Exchange replacement for Linux, GPL+proprietary
- Kopano, full MAPI MS Exchange replacement for Linux, GPL+proprietary
- Zentyal
- Zimbra
Other
- Alfresco, enterprise content management system: document management, workflow, and portal
- Drupal Framework, open source content management framework: document management, web pages, attachments, forums, photos, social profiles, collaboration tools
- Liferay Enterprise Portal, open source enterprise portal: document management, wiki, social tools, workflow
- LogicalDOC, document management system: document management, workflow
- Nuxeo EP, enterprise content management system: document management, workflow
- OpenKM, open source document management system: document management
Project collaboration software
Web-based software
- 5day.io, is a modern work management tool
- Ceiton, workflow-based project management with Gantt chart, scheduling calendar and time-tracking
- Central Desktop, has project management, wiki, file upload, review and approve, calendar, document management
- Clarizen, online on-demand, collaborative project execution software
- dotProject
- Easy Redmine, open-source project management software
- Easy Projects
- EGroupware, is free open source groupware software intended for businesses from small to enterprises
- Feng Office Community Edition
- Fle3
- Gitea
- GitLab
- Group-Office, Web-based groupware for sharing calendars, files, e-mail, CRM, Projects, Mobile Synchronization and much more.
- Horde
- InLoox, web-based project management and collaboration software with Outlook integration
- LiquidPlanner, web-based project management and collaboration software
- Mindquarry, has document synchronizing, wiki, task management
- PBworks is a commercial real-time collaborative editing (RTCE) system
- phpGroupWare, has a project collaboration module
- Plone, content management
- project.net
- Projectplace, full suite of collaborative project tools
- Redmine, for software projects includes issue tracking, wiki, basic file and document management with hooks to major version control systems: SVN, Git, etc.
- Simple Groupware
- TeamLab, has forums, blogs, bookmarks, wiki, task management, instant messaging, mobile version, CRM, online document editors
- TogetherJS by Mozilla, an open-source javascript library that can transform any web application into a real-time collaborative editor.
- Trac, has wiki, document management, ticket system and version control system
- Traction TeamPage integrated action tracking, wiki, live status, notification, and streams organized by person, task, project, and shared permissioned space.
- web2project, a dotproject fork with active current development and some innovations: subprojects, etc.
- WiserEarth, social network and database that include an open-source Groupware (closed)
- Wrike, interactive web-based project management software and tools for remote collaboration
- Zoho Projects, a web-based project management software with collaboration features[19] such as Interactive Feeds, Chat, Calendar, Forum, Wiki Pages and shared Document management
Other
- Croquet project, collaborative virtual environment
- Open Wonderland, open source Java toolkit to make collaborative 3D virtual worlds
- Wiki engines: see List of wiki software
- Realtime editors: see Collaborative real-time editor
- Revision control for software engineering projects: see Comparison of revision control software
- Collaborative development environment
- Tools for collaborative writing such as O'Reilly Media's wiki-like git-managed authoring platform Atlas[20][21]
Comparison
| Name | Mail transfer agent | Mail storage type | IMAP server | IMAP shared | Calendar format | Calendar shared | IM server | WebDAV | Web UI | Contacts shared | Files shared | Web admin UI | Antivirus | Spam filter | Notes |
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| Template:Rh| Axigen | SMTP proprietary RFC compliant | proprietary indexed storage | proprietary RFC compliant | Yes | iCal | available from Microsoft Outlook & Webmail | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ClamAV | SpamAssassin, Sieve, others | Mobile synchronizing using full compliant ActiveSync, Ajax GUI, multiplatform, Microsoft Outlook connector with online/offline modes |
| Template:Rh| Bynari | SMTP Postfix | IMAP | Cyrus IMAP | Yes | iCal | iCal | Jabber | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ClamAV | SpamAssassin and Sieve | Mobile synchronizing using full compliant ActiveSync, Ajax webapp, Microsoft Outlook connector |
| Template:Rh| Citadel/UX | Custom | Berkeley DB | Custom | Yes | iCal | Yes | Yes | GroupDAV and WebCal support | Yes | Yes | various methods | Yes | ClamAV on SpamAssassin | SpamAssassin, or pre-processed with Postfix or qpsmtpd | Hot backups need retained recent database logs |
| Template:Rh| EGroupware | SMTP | IMAP server dependent | Cyrus or any IMAP server | Yes | iCal | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes on Linux- any external | Sieve filters | Ajax GUI, Mobile responsive template, integrates with: mobile devices (Z-Push), any IMAP client |
| Template:Rh| Feng Office Community Edition | Sendmail, SMTP | Database or File system | Any IMAP server | No | SQL, iCal | iCal | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Any external (e.g., ClamAV) | Mail server dependent (e.g., SpamAssassin) | Ajax GUI; runs on any operating system with Apache, PHP and MySQL, e.g., Windows, Linux, macOS); commercial support via Feng Office |
| Template:Rh| Group-Office | Custom Postfix | IMAP server dependent | Custom | Yes | iCal | Web interface | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ClamAV | SpamAssassin, DSPAM | Synchronizes with: Microsoft Outlook, iPhone, Android, Symbian, Palm OS, Pocket PC, other SyncML or ActiveSync clients |
| Template:Rh| Horde | Sendmail, SMTP | No | Cyrus, others | No | No | DB, ICAL export | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | rule-based filtering | integrates into Kolab, has SyncML-interface |
| Template:Rh| Jumper 2.0 | No | No | Custom | No | SQL, iCal | iCal | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Shares any content, media, or data | Yes | No | No | Enterprise bookmarking engine, uses peer and social networking principles to tag and link distributed data resources for universal search regardless of vendor, format, or location |
| Template:Rh| Kolab | Postfix | IMAP (Kolab-XML format) and LDAP | Cyrus and (experimental) Dovecot | Yes | iCal and Kolab-XML format | IMAP, iCal- and HTML-Export | No | Yes | Roundcube | IMAP and LDAP | Yes | Yes | ClamAV, others | SpamAssassin, others | Runs on almost all Unix/Linux; integrated Roundcube webfrontend, and ActiveSync (via Syncroton), and serves most common PIM-clients such as Kontact, Microsoft Outlook (with connector plug-in) and others. |
| Template:Rh| OpenGroupware | Postfix | Mail Dir | Cyrus | No | No | Export to iCal | XMPP, if purchased | No | No | No | No | If purchased | |||
| Template:Rh| Open- Xchange |
Postfix[22] | IMAP server dependent[23] | Cyrus, Courier, Dovecot[24] | Yes | iCal[25] | LDAP, CalDAV, Google, Export to iCal[26] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | If purchased | ClamAV, others | SpamAssassin, others | Ajax GUI, Microsoft Outlook integration, tasks module |
| Template:Rh| PhpGroupWare | No | No | No | Template:Unk | Template:Unk | ICAL | Yes | Template:Unk | Yes | Template:Unk | Yes | Yes | Quite similar to eGroupWare | ||
| Template:Rh| Simple Groupware | SMTP | IMAP server dependent, Database | Cyrus, Courier IMAP, UW IMAP, others | Yes | SQL, iCal and XML format | Database, ICAL import/export | Built-in chat module | Planned for 0.3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ClamAV, others | Mail server dependent | Synchronizes with: Outlook, Symbian, Pocket PC, mail notifications, document preview |
| Template:Rh| Tine 2.0 | Postfix or any other SMTP Server | SQL | DBMail or other IMAP-server | if IMAP server support | SQL | not yet CalDAV or iCal | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Uses external IMAP server; synchronizes with: Symbian, Palm OS, Pocket PC, other ActiveSync clients |
| Template:Rh| Tonido Workspace | No | No | No | No | Synchronizing, Web-based access | Built-in chat module | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Free, for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux; built-in web server allows P2P synchronizing similar to Microsoft Groove and usual guest workspace access via Ajax-based WebUI |
| Template:Rh| Twproject | relies on existing SMTP | synchronizes with clients | No | Yes | iCal | iCal | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Synchronizes with: Outlook, Google calendars, mail; full project management module |
| Template:Rh| Wrike | No | No | No | No | iCal | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Mobile synchronizing using full compliant Dropbox & Google docs, rich Ajax web access, Microsoft Outlook & iMail connector |
| Template:Rh| Zarafa | Postfix, Exim, Qmail, Sendmail, others | MySQL, optional attachments on filesystem | Yes | Public Folder available | Outlook, WebApp, Webaccess, iCal, Z-Merge | Outlook, WebApp, Webaccess, Z-Merge | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ClamAV, others | SpamAssassin, others | HTML5 WebApp (with Videoconferencing functionality and (large) file sharing), Ajax WebAccess, online and offline Outlook compatibility, fully ActiveSync compatible using Z-Push (Symbian, Pocket PC, iPhone (firmware 2.X), Nokia (mail4Exchange)), integrates with AD and LDAP, own serverside integration framework Z-Merge |
| Template:Rh| Kopano | Postfix, Exim, Qmail, Sendmail, others | MySQL, optional attachments on filesystem | Yes | Public Folder available | Outlook, WebApp, iCal, Z-Merge | Outlook, WebApp, Z-Merge | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ClamAV, others | SpamAssassin, others | HTML5 WebApp (with Videoconferencing functionality and (large) file sharing), Ajax WebAccess, online and offline Outlook compatibility, fully ActiveSync compatible using Z-Push (Symbian, Pocket PC, iPhone (firmware 2.X), Nokia (mail4Exchange)), integrates with AD and LDAP, own serverside integration framework Z-Merge |
| Template:Rh| Zentyal | Postfix | IMAP server dependent | Dovecot | No | Outlook, Webaccess, iCal | Outlook, Webaccess | Template:Unk | Template:Unk | Yes | Yes | Template:Unk | Yes | ClamAV | SpamAssassin | Ajax Web UI, online and offline Outlook native compatibility, fully ActiveSync compatible using SOGo integrates with Samba AD server |
| Template:Rh| Zimbra | Custom Postfix | Mail Dir w/ index db | Custom | No | iCal | ICAL | (Removed in v8) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ClamAV | SpamAssassin, DSPAM | |
| Name | Mail transfer agent | Mail storage type | IMAP server | IMAP shared | Calendar format | Calendar shared | IM server | WebDAV | Web UI | Contacts shared | Files shared | Web admin UI | Antivirus | Spam filter | Notes |
See also
- Cloud collaboration
- Collaborative workflow
- Collaborative editor
- Comparison of project management software
- Comparison of wiki software
- Document collaboration
- Document-centric collaboration
- List of wiki farms
- List of wiki software
References
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