List of collaborative software

General

Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

General Information

Comparison of unified communications features

Main article: unified communications

Comparison of collaborative software features

Main article: collaborative software

Comparison of targets

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
• 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
• Cryptpad, open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative office suite focused on privacy
• 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 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

Comparison

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