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 or free software
The following are open source or free software applications:
- Groupware
- Classic client-server solutions
- Access Grid for audio and video based collaboration
- eGroupWare with support for native groupware clients (Kontact, Novell Evolution, Microsoft Outlook) and web interface
- Group-Office
- Kolab
- LibreSource
- OpenGroupware.org
- phpGroupWare
- Scalix
- Zimbra
- Web based solutions
- Bricolage Content management system
- DotNetNuke: previously known as DNN: module based, evolved from ASP 2.0 demo applications
- eGroupWare
- Group-Office
- Horde
- Open-Xchange
- phpGroupWare
- ProjectPier
- Simple Groupware
- SlashCode Software that runs Slashdot
- TikiWiki CMS/Groupware. Includes a wiki, forums, a calendar, a ticket system and a workflow engine.
- Other
- Alfresco Enterprise Content-Management System: document management, workflow, and portal
- Jahia Integrated Java Enterprise Portal and Content Management System
- KnowledgeTree Document Management System: document management, workflow, portal
- Nuxeo CPS: Content management and collaborative platform based on Zope
- OpenKM Document Management System: document management
- Nuxeo EP: Enterprise Content-Management System: document management, workflow
- ResourceSpace: Digital asset management
- Scoop
- Classic client-server solutions
- Project collaboration (projectware)
- Web based solutions
- dotProject
- eGroupWare
- Fle3
- Group-Office
- Horde
- JavaForge a collaborative platform for Java projects
- Mindquarry Includes document synchronization, a wiki and task management
- Open-Xchange
- phpGroupWare Includes a project collaboration module
- project.net
- SharpForge includes forums, work item tracking, release management, wiki and version control management
- Simple Groupware
- Trac Includes wiki, document management, ticket system and version control system
- Other
- Croquet project Collaborative Virtual Environment
- Web based solutions
- Wiki engines: see List of wiki software
- Realtime editors: see Collaborative editor
[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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atmail | Custom Exim | Mail Dir | Custom | No | No | SQL, Outlook MAPI | No | No | No | No | No | No | ClamAV | SpamAssassin | Commercial with Source |
| Citadel/UX | Custom | Berkeley DB | Custom | Yes | iCal | Yes | Inbuilt | GroupDAV and WebCal support | Yes | Yes | Yes - various methods | Yes | ClamAV on top of SpamAssassin | SpamAssassin, or pre-processed with Postfix or qpsmtpd | Hot backups can't be made unless all the database logs are kept. |
| Collaber | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | p2p Tools based architecture. Works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux |
| eGroupWare | Exim | SQL | DBMail or other IMAP-server | Yes if IMAP server support | Yes SQL, iCal | Yes iCal | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes on linux- any external | Yes SpamAssassin or other | Uses external IMAP server. Synchronizes with: Microsoft Outlook, Symbian, Palm OS, Pocket PC, Other SyncML clients and Apple iCal |
| 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 |
| Horde | Sendmail, SMTP | No | Cyrus and others | No | No | DB, ICAL export | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | rule-based filtering | works with Kolab |
| i-sense | Sendmail, SMTP | IMAP server dependent, Database | Any IMAP server | ? | iCal | iCal and custom export/synchronisation services | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | SpamAssassin and others | AJAX GUI and Microsoft Outlook integration |
| Instant Business Network | SMTP | Mail Dir | Any IMAP Server | SQL and XML | Web | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Rule-based filtering/whitelists/blacklists | Help Desk and Project Management solution |
| Kerika | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | graphical wiki that combines whiteboarding and document management; runs on Windows, Mac OS X & Linux; support private networks |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| OpenGroupware | Postfix | Mail Dir | Cyrus | No | No | Export to ICAL | Jabber, if purchased | No | No | No | No | If purchased | |||
| PhpGroupWare | No | No | No | ? | ? | ICAL | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Quite similar to eGroupWare | ||
| Simple Groupware | SMTP | IMAP server dependent, Database | Cyrus, Courier IMAP, UW IMAP and others | Yes | SQL, iCal and XML Format | Database, ICAL import/export | built-in chat module | No planned for 0.3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ClamAV and others | Mail server dependent | Synchronizes with: Outlook, Symbian, Pocket PC, mail notifications, document preview |
| Zimbra | Custom Postfix | Mail Dir w/ index db | Custom | No | iCal | ICAL | Jabber | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ClamAV | SpamAssassin, DSPAM | |
| 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 |
- Feature Comparison Table
[edit] Proprietary software
The following are proprietary software applications:
- Adobe Acrobat Connect is a hosted online training, web conferencing, and learning solution that leverages Adobe Flash technology.
- Basecamp is a web based project collaboration and management tool.
- BSCW Basic Support for Collaborative Work
- Central Desktop wiki-based on demand team collaboration software for small and medium sized businesses.
- Clearspace web-based suite integrating forums, blogs, wiki, chat, and VOIP.
- Collaba is an integrated collaboration and communication platform server.
- Collaber is an Eclipse based peer-to-peer platform.
- Collabnet provides solutions for distributed collaborative software development.
- Collanos Workplace is a server-less, cross-platform, on- and offline p2p collaboration solution for teams working beyond enterprise platforms
- CoMotion by General Dynamics C4S Viz is a multi-tiered client-server collaborative workspace system with extensive data visualization, annotation, and organizational tools.
- Contactizer Pro by Objective Decision, for Mac OS X only. Decentralized collaborative sharing of contacts, tasks and events.
- e is a collaborative editor which works as a live revision control system. It uses an edit-and-commit style of collaboration.
- 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 is a client/server groupware
- 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.
- i-sense is a fully featured, web based groupware application including organizer and collaboration as well as customer relationship and enterprise resources functionality. It is free for non-commercial users and organizations.
- Instant Business Network Project Management and Help Desk
- 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 Sametime
- JavaForge a collaborative OpenSource platform for Java projects.
- JotSpot Wiki supports calendars, spreadsheets, file repositories, and photo galleries. Built for ease of use
- Kerika: graphical wiki that combines whiteboarding and document management; runs on Windows, Macs & Linux; supports private networks; free for educational/academic users.
- Kerio MailServer is a mail and groupware server
- Marratech Realtime collaboration with audio, video, whiteboard and chat.
- MatchWare Mediator, a multimedia authoring tool with multiuser editing support
- Microsoft Exchange Server and the Microsoft Outlook client
- Microsoft Groove is a peer-to-peer collaboration application
- Microsoft Netmeeting
- Microsoft Live Meeting
- Microsoft Office Live Communications Server
- Microsoft SharePoint Services and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
- Novell GroupWise
- Open Text Corporation Livelink is an Enterprise Content Management solution
- OpenTeams is a web-hosted environment with wiki, blog, bliki, tags, file attachment (with version history), discussion, WYSIWIG editing, and "What's New" change monitoring functionality in an email-like 3-pane Web 2.0/Ajax interface.
- Oracle Corporation Oracle Collaboration Suite a suite of e-mail, calendar, tasks, IM, web conferencing and document management
- Owis workflow management, document management, knowledge base, calendar, IM and collaboration suite
- PabloDraw is a collaborative text and ANSI/ASCII art editing tool on Windows
- Pichat is a software to exchange information in a peer-to-peer network, a community chat system with webchat.
- PictureTalk is a cross-platform web collaboration software. It supports Mac, Windows and Linux family.
- Ramius Corporation Online community systems for virtual collaboration and knowledge sharing. Product is named CommunityZero.
- Seefile Web-based interface for image collaboration.
- Socialtext provides wiki and weblog web-based collaboration
- SubEthaEdit – Collaborative text editing on Mac OS X
- 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 is a content management system
- WebEx web based collaboration tools
- Workspot is a web service providing Linux desktops, which can be shared securely through a browser.
- Wrike is a tool for project management and collaboration
- Writeboard is a collaborative text editor
- Zarafa is meant as an alternative to Microsoft Exchange Server.
- Zing Technologies AnyZing and ZingThing - Electronic Learning and Meeting System software for team rooms and networks.
- Zoho Writer is a web-browser-based collaborative editor
