List of collaborative software

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

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

General Information

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Comparison of unified communications features

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Comparison of collaborative software features

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Comparison of targets

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Open source software

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The following are open source applications for collaboration:

Standard client–server software

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Groupware: Web-based software

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  • 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

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  • 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

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Web-based software

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  • 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[30] such as Interactive Feeds, Chat, Calendar, Forum, Wiki Pages and shared Document management

Other

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Comparison

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See also

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References

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