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
Comparison of collaborative software features
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 GroupOffice 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 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 Elium, enterprise knowledge management system: lifecycle management, AI, collaboration, wiki and portal 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 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 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 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
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