List of collaborative software
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This is a list of collaborative software (or list of groupware) applications. Wiki software is on a list of wiki software.
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[edit] Open source / free software
The following are open source or free software applications.
- Real Time Audio, Video and Data Collaboration
- Access Grid
- TalkAndWrite-Professional whiteboard with voice and video. Powered by Skype, with a freeware version.
- Groupware
- classic client-server solutions
- Citadel (Groupware) is community-oriented collaboration combined with classic e-mail and calendar features
- phpGroupWare
- LibreSource
- Kolab
- exchange4linux
- OpenGroupware.org
- Group-Office
- eGroupWare (KDE PIM ready)
- Scalix
- Zimbra
- web based solutions
- Citadel/UX
- Claros in Touch
- eGroupWare
- Epiware - Project and Document Management
- Group-Office
- Horde
- Open-Xchange
- phpGroupWare
- Simple Groupware
- TUTOS
- Zimbra
- PHProjekt
- Collaborative Media
- Scoop
- SlashCode software that runs Slashdot
- everything engine, backing the everything2 site
- Bricolage used by salon.com
- Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server: content management and collaborative platform based on Zope
- Other
- KnowledgeTree Document Management System: document management, workflow, portal
- Croquet project
- Jahia content management, corporate portal, document management, collaboration suite
- Alfresco (software) content-management, workflow, and portal
- ResourceSpace: digital asset management
- classic client-server solutions
- Project Collaboration
- web based solutions
- Group-Office
- Open-Xchange
- Wrike
- eGroupWare
- PHProjekt
- phpGroupWare Includes a project collaboration module
- TUTOS
- Trac
- project.net
- Horde
- Microsoft Office Groove, a peer-to-peer collaboration software
- dotProject
- web based solutions
- Wiki engines: see list of wiki software.
[edit] Comparison chart
Name | Mail Transfer agent | Mail Storage Type | IMAP Server | Shared IMAP | Calendar Format | Shared Calendar | IM Server | WebDAV | Web UI | Shared Contacts | Shared Files | Web Admin UI | Anti-Virus | Spam Filtering | Notes |
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Citadel/UX | Custom | Berkeley DB | Custom | No | No | Export ICAL | Jabber | No | No | No | No | No | Hot backups can't be made unless all the database logs are kept. | ||
Group-Office | Custom Postfix | IMAP server dependent | Custom | No | iCal | Web interface | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ClamAV | SpamAssassin, DSPAM | Synchronizes with: Microsoft Outlook, Symbian, Palm OS, Pocket PC, Other SyncML clients |
Zimbra | Custom Postfix | Mail Dir w/ index db | Custom | No | iCal | ICAL | Jabber | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ClamAV | SpamAssassin, DSPAM | |
Atmail | Custom Exim | Mail Dir | Custom | No | No | SQL, Outlook MAPI | No | No | No | No | No | No | ClamAV | SpamAssassin | Commercial with Source |
OpenGroupware | Postfix | Mail Dir | Cyrus | No | No | Export to ICAL | Jabber, if purchased | No | No | No | No | If purchased | |||
PhpGroupWare | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | |||
Open- Xchange |
Postfix | IMAP server dependent | Cyrus or any IMAP server | Yes | iCal | LDAP, Export to ICAL | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | If purchased | ClamAV and others | SpamAssassin and others | AJAX GUI, Microsoft Outlook integration, Tasks module |
Kolab | Postfix | IMAP (Kolab-XML Format) and LDAP | Cyrus | Yes | iCal and Kolab-XML Format | IMAP, iCal- and HTML-Export | No | No | Horde | IMAP and LDAP | No | Yes | ClamAV and others | SpamAssassin and others | Runs on almost all UNIX/Linux; many clients: Kontact, Microsoft Outlook, Horde and others |
Horde | Sendmail, SMTP | No | Cyrus and others | No | No | DB, ICAL export | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | rule-based filtering | works with Kolab |
- Feature Comparison Table
[edit] Proprietary software
The following are proprietary software applications:
- Basecamp by 37 Signals is a web based project collaboration and management tool.
- Atlassian Confluence is an enterprise wiki used for collaboration and knowledge sharing.
- BrainKeeper is an online enterprise wiki system used for knowledge management and collaboration.
- BSCW Basic Support for Collaborative Work
- Calandra CMS, forum and system used for knowledge management and collaboration.
- Central Desktop wiki-based on demand team collaboration software for small and medium sized businesses.
- codeBeamer Collaboration Platform with integrated Application Life Cycle Management for distributed software development using SVN.
- Collab from MercuryGrove is a Web 2.0 collaboration software.
- Collab software for music collaboration with FL Studio.
- Collaber is Eclipse (software) based peer-to-peer platform.
- Collabnet provides solutions for distributed collaborative software development.
- CoMotion by General Dynamics C4S Viz (formerly MAYA Viz Ltd) is a multi-tiered client-server collaborative workspace system with extensive data visualization, annotation, and organizational tools. Used in systems from the Army's Command Post of the Future to Array BioPharma's drug discovery tools.
- Contactizer Pro by Objective Decision, for Mac OS X only. Decentralized collaborative sharing of contacts, tasks and events.
- Coventi Pages allows people to create web pages that their co-workers can discuss and edit together.
- CrossLoop provides free, easy and secure software for screen sharing.
- EditGrid is an online spreadsheet with access control and revision history support, whose RTU (real-time update) feature allows multiple users to collaborate on the same spreadsheet simultaneously.
- Elluminate is a web based, realtime collaboration tool with audio, video, whiteboard, application sharing simultaneously between Windows, Macs, and Linux users.
- FirstClass
- GForge Advanced Server distributed software development as a web based platform with numerous plugins to interact with Eclipse IDE as well as Microsoft Visual Studio to handle the full software life cycle.
- Groove is a Microsoft Windows based peer-to-peer platform
- GroupVille - Web-based Groupware package for desktops and smartphones
- JotSpot Wiki supports calendars, spreadsheets, file repositories, and photo galleries. Built for ease of use
- IBM Lotus Notes and Domino
- IBM Lotus QuickPlace (name changed to Lotus Team Workspace in version 6.5.1 only)
- IBM Workplace-branded products
- IBM Lotus Instant Messaging (Sametime)
- inKontext by Anapasoft is a realtime collaboration portal for engineering groups and consultants
- Marratech Realtime collaboration with audio, video, whiteboard and chat.
- Microsoft Exchange Server and the Microsoft Outlook client
- Microsoft Netmeeting
- Microsoft Live Meeting
- Microsoft Office Live Communications Server
- Microsoft SharePoint Services and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
- Novell GroupWise
- Office.com is a Web-based integrated suite of 15 applications that includes group calendaring, document management, contact management, email, wiki and other collaborative tools.
- Open Text Corporation Livelink is an Enterprise Content Management solution
- Oracle Corporation Oracle Collaboration Suite a suite of e-mail, calendar, tasks, IM, web conferencing and document management
- PabloDraw — Collaborative text and ANSI/ASCII art editing on Windows
- Ramius Corporation Online community systems for virtual collaboration and knowledge sharing. Product is named CommunityZero.
- Scalix
- Socialtext provides wiki and weblog web-based collaboration
- SubEthaEdit – Collaborative text editing on Mac OS X
- TalkAndWrite-Professional whiteboard with voice and video.Powered by Skype, with a freeware version.
- TeamIntegrator by Helicon Soft is a web-based groupware for joint project activities, collaboration and communication. Supports mobile devices.
- Traction TeamPage - Traction's model focuses on collaboration within and among groups using a sophisticated permission model that aggregates multiple blog/wiki spaces using a web-based Journal modeled on the principals of Douglas Engelbart's On-Line_System (NLS).
- Vignette Collaboration
- WebEx web based collaboration tools
- Webasyst online group collaboration software
- Workspot is a web service providing Linux desktops, which can be shared securely through a browser.
- WorkSmart.net is a hosted asynchronous collaboration service providing functionality in the areas of document management, calendar sharing, contact management, e-mail, forums, project management and on-line database
- Wrike
- Zing Technologies AnyZing and ZingThing - Electronic Learning and Meeting System software for team rooms and networks.