Nextcloud ist eine integrierte Plattform für die Zusammenarbeit vor Ort, die sich für deine Organisation oder dein Unternehmen in allen Bereichen eignet, von der Regierung über das Bildungs- und Gesundheitswesen bis hin zu vielen anderen.

Triff Nextcloud auf spannenden Messen wie dem Zukunftskongress und der DMEA in Berlin oder dem EdTech Congress Barcelona in Spanien, wo das Nextcloud-Team die neueste Version von Nextcloud Hub 4 und vieles mehr vorstellen wird.

Nimm an den folgenden Veranstaltungen teil!

EdTech – Lernen im Zeitalter der KI

Die EdTech-Konferenz in Barcelona ermöglicht es dem Bildungs- und Regierungssektor, auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung im Bereich Bildungstechnologie zu sein.

Barcelona, Spanien

19. und 20. April

Für nationale und internationale Bildungsleiter, das Management von Universitäten und Bildungszentren, EDTech-Unternehmen und Manager der öffentlichen Verwaltung

Nextcloud ist fit für Universitäten

In der Fallstudie erfährst du, wie die Meiji Universität in Japan Nextcloud zu ihrem Vorteil nutzt.

DMEA – Digitale Gesundheit verbinden

Arbeitest du im Gesundheitswesen?

Komm zu uns in die Berliner Messehalle und erfahre, wie deine Organisation von Nextcloud profitieren kann, wenn es darum geht, Patientendaten zu schützen und vertrauliche Dateien sicher zu speichern.

DMEA,Berlin, Deutschland

25-27 April

Für Manager und Entscheidungsträger in der digitalen Gesundheitsbranche

Krankenhäuser vertrauen Nextcloud

See how ZGT Hospital in the Netherlands benefits from Nextcloud in the case study.

Plane für weitere Veranstaltungen!

Zukunftskongress

Der Zukunftskongress veranstaltet seine 9. Jahreskonferenz mit dem Schwerpunkt auf der Steuerung der digitalen Transformation. Hauptredner sind die aktuellen Ministerpräsidenten, Bundesminister und Staatsminister in Deutschland.

Berlin, Deutschland

19-21 Juni

Für Führungskräfte in Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz

Nextcloud ist sicher für Regierungen

Finde heraus, wie die Stadt Genf Nextcloud einsetzt.

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Sharing of knowledge and data is the bedrock of any scientific or research community. Data needs to be sharable among peers so different communities can work together in a collaborative fashion. As important as access to data, equally important is access control; who can or can’t access this data. This has been a big challenge for organization who work together and collaborate online.

ZECM, the IT service center of the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) offers tubCloud to the users of TU Berlin and several members of DFN (Deutsches Forschungsnetz), a collaboration of universities and research institutions in German.

tubCloud is a file sync and storage solution that’s based on Nextcloud, an open source enterprise file sync and storage project. It’s a competitor to services like Dropbox, which protects users privacy and ownership of data. tubCloud offers standard functionalities that users would expect from commercial services like Dropbox, including data storage and synchronization, online music playback, picture gallery and more. But unlike those other services, data stays at the TU Berlin, under control of its system administrators, under German law.

Based on Nextcloud

When evaluating available solutions in 2011, TU Berlin chose ownCloud due to its ability to meet most of their requirements. However, after the contract with ownCloud expired in May 2017, the team decided to migrate tubCloud from ownCloud 9.1 to Nextcloud 11. Today, TubCloud is powered by Nextcloud Hub 3, version 24, empowering TU Berlin’s students and faculty with advanced collaboration and file-sharing capabilities.

After migrating from ownCloud 9.1 to Nextcloud 11, tubCloud experienced significant performance improvements, resulting in over 38% lower database load during peak times and faster service for its users. The migration also led to the implementation of better security practices and introduced new features to tubCloud.

Today, tubCloud, powered by Nextcloud, serves over 70,000 users across 35 instances and manages hundred millions of files. « Most of these files are small 1kb – 2kb files, but these are critical files – text files, which could be research articles, meeting protocols, sample data from research and what not. Then there are bigger files that take up couple of gigabytes, in most cases these are raw data from research instruments, » said Dr. Thomas Hildmann, head of the infrastructure department at tubIT and chairman of the DFN forum cloud-services. At the moment Nextcloud is helping tubCloud manage over 0.8 PB (PetaByte) of data from these DFN members.

Sharing is caring

Sharing of this data with other universities and teams within the same organization is critical to DFN members. It allows them to work together and collaborate. At the same time, Germany has some of the strongest data privacy laws in the world, so tubCloud needs to maintain the balance between sharing and privacy. Nextcloud Hub also has these two functionalities – ability to share, and total control over privacy – baked in at its core. They are offering privacy and collaboration features that are not found in even the most popular commercial software, for example advanced sharing and end-to-end encryption. Teams can offer fine grained access control to files, such as expiration of sharing after a certain time, or restrict access in certain regions.

All of that above, while keeping things simple. « When a new team is created, Nextcloud creates a team folder that’s shared with every member that the admin adds to that team. Each member gets the same UI and experience, » said Hildmann. « At the moment, 90% users use file or folder sharing. That’s the most used feature here and it’s very important for our users to have their files synced with multiple computers »

tubCloud Apps

Meanwhile, the Nextcloud community is actively developing new features and functionalities for Nextcloud Hub, some of which have been incorporated into tubCloud for the benefit of its users. These new features include online collaboration tools, audio and video chat, group chat, and project management capabilities, which are currently being used by DFN-Cloud users.

Online Collaboration

tubCloud has built-in support for plain text editing features. But users can achieve a Google Docs like experience. TU Berlin has been working with Collabora Productivity and some research partners to offer a Google Docs/Office 365 like online collaborative service to tubCloud users. While some research partners will start using Collabora Online, along with Nextcloud in January, TU Berlin plans to start it later this year, as they have to conduct extensive testing before it’s deployed to serve more than 30,000 users.

tubCloud has built-in support for basic text editing features. However, for a more comprehensive online collaborative experience similar to Google Docs or Office 365, TU Berlin has integrated OnlyOffice and Collabora Productivity into tubCloud to provide their users with a robust online collaborative service.

Project Management

tubCloud offers a tightly integrated project management solution to its users through Nextcloud Deck, an app that is fully integrated within the Nextcloud Hub stack and supported by Nextcloud. Deck is heavily used by tubCloud users for project planning and team meetings, making it an important tool for collaboration and productivity.

Infrastructure tubCloud

There are two important aspects of the tubCloud infrastructure to mention: first, the use of their own-developed storage file system called tubFS; and second, the use of OpenStack to manage the cloud environments for Nextcloud Hub. We will be diving into these topics in more detail now.

tubFS

TU Berlin is currently using their own storage file system called tubFS, which is based on the open source CEPH FS project. One of the primary reasons for building tubFS is to address use cases where a sync client is not feasible, such as in terminals where the virtual machine is respawned when a user logs out. In such scenarios, users are unable to access tubCloud data, but tubFS provides a solution by allowing users to access data from the front end using Nextcloud or Samba share. It is planned to integrate tubCloud with tubFS so that regardless of the device used to access it, users will always see a data directory that looks the same.

OpenStack

TU Berlin migrated their infrastructure to OpenStack, which allows them to create and manage scalable, secure, and flexible cloud environments that are compatible with multiple technologies. The university’s goal is to create a centralized platform where all members of TU Berlin/DFN can access their files, collaborate with each other, and utilize various features such as collaborative editing, file sharing, chat, and more.

Future plans

We have several plans in store for tubCloud, and one of our top priorities is implementing encryption. Following our successful migration to OpenStack, we have end-to-end encryption on our roadmap and plan to introduce it soon.

End to End Encryption

tubCloud users may require strong encryption for private or sensitive data that is mandated by law in certain use cases. In addition to the existing on-storage encryption which is usefull in scenarios of third-party storage provider, Nextcloud has developed an industry-first solution for full end-to-end encryption. This solution allows users to choose any number of folders for complete end-to-end security, a feature that is not offered by even popular platforms like Dropbox. TU Berlin is considering implementing this end-to-end encryption solution in tubCloud for highly sensitive data. Doing so would be a significant milestone for tubCloud and its users.

Sharing Experience and Knowledge

ZECM, the IT service center of Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), is eager to learn from other organizations that use Nextcloud Hub at scale. The university welcomes feedback and ideas from the community, and encourages further collaboration on this topic.

In the meantime, Thomas Hildmann would like to highlight an upcoming webinar on scaling Nextcloud that will be jointly offered by TU Berlin and Nextcloud. In this webinar, Thomas will provide a detailed overview of the implementation and configuration of managing 35 instances for 50,000 users at the university. We invite anyone who is interested in this topic to sign up for the upcoming webinar.

This article is based on an article by Swapnil Bhartiya, originally published in German on cloudcomputing-insider.de, and has been updated with information from recent presentations by TU Berlin on this topic. You can find the original article here.

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Proprietary SaaS plaforms like Sharepoint and MS 365 have become major cash cows, and on-premises solutions get discontinued across the tech sector to force customers into vendor-locked clouds. Organizations dealing with critical or sensitive data respond by looking to maintain their strategic autonomy by deploying on premises solutions. In collaboration with a number of European government organizations, the market leader in the open source, on-premises collaboration space today announces the expansion of it’s offering to provide a full SharePoint replacement, complete with migration services. Showing the strong trend towards digital sovereignty, the announcement comes shortly after the highest EU Data Protection authority, the EDPS, announced they deploy and recommend Nextcloud.

We believe that development based on real world requirements and demand, rather than a strategy of forcing customers into a vendor lock-in, results in better products. Demand for an open, on-premises structured data platform as part of Nextcloud has been huge, and several customers have already signed up to deploy our technology.

Frank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud GmbH

The imminent end of SharePoint Server support has created a huge demand for solutions that offer similar functionality without compromising user control over data and meta data. The risks around data sovereignty and vendor lock-in is particularly pronounced for government agencies, many of which for reasons of autonomy, cost and compliance, tend to rely on on-premises tools for collaboration and document management.

A number of customers from the public sector has worked with Nextcloud to integrate a structured data management application into Nextcloud Hub. German state Schleswig-Holstein already announced their intention to replace SharePoint with Nextcloud in 2020 and since then several government organizations have already committed to the platform. Even more are providing feedback and information on their requirements with an eye to adopting Nextcloud as their on-premises SharePoint replacement.

Nextcloud’s initiative to offer a digitally sovereign, open-source alternative to Microsoft Sharepoint is to be welcomed. That’s why we work together with Nextcloud to optimize Nextcloud Tables.

Ralf Sutorius, Leitender IT-Architekt, Stadt Köln

Nextcloud Hub is well established as a collaboration platform, providing easy document collaboration and sharing for teams and work groups, as well as integrated knowledge management. The introduction of Tables rounds the platform out with management of structured data. It allows customers to build, manage and work with data structures, putting together easy ‘apps’ and connecting them to various other components in Nextcloud for automation.

Users will be able to create a table to track any other type of data that is relevant to their organization, such as expenses, projects or sales leads. The flexibility of Tables allows users to tailor the table to their specific needs.

The first release of Tables is available now on the Nextcloud app store.

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Le contrôleur européen de la protection des données est une organisation indépendante chargée de surveiller et de garantir que les institutions de l’UE respectent le droit à la vie privée et à la protection des données des citoyens. Il y a un an, dans un rapport sur les systèmes de gestion des informations personnelles, le EDPS avait déjà mentionné Nextcloud comme exemple d’une excellente solution pour gérer les données personnelles, sensibles à la vie privée, de manière responsable.

Aujourd’hui, nous sommes fiers de vous annoncer que le EDPS a lui-même déployé Nextcloud, et plus encore, qu’il travaille avec notre partenaire TAS Cloud Services pour le rendre disponible à toutes les institutions de l’UE ! Cela signifie que l’UE dispose désormais d’une plateforme de collaboration puissante et complète, conforme aux lois européennes sur la protection des données et non seulement approuvée, mais utilisée et proposée par le contrôleur indépendant de la protection des données de l’UE. Citons le contrôleur européen de la protection des données lui-même, M. Wojciech Wiewiórowski :

Les logiciels libres offrent des alternatives respectueuses de la protection des données aux fournisseurs de services en nuage à grande échelle couramment utilisés, qui impliquent souvent le transfert des données personnelles des individus vers des pays non membres de l’UE. Des solutions comme celle-ci peuvent donc minimiser la dépendance à l’égard des fournisseurs monopolistiques et le verrouillage préjudiciable des fournisseurs. En négociant un contrat avec un fournisseur de services en nuage basé dans l’UE, le CEPD respecte ses engagements, tels qu’ils sont énoncés dans sa stratégie 2020-2024, pour aider les institutions européennes à montrer l’exemple en matière de protection des droits numériques et de traitement des données de manière responsable.”

Wojciech Wiewiórowski, EDPS

Comme beaucoup d’entre vous le savent, de nombreuses organisations gouvernementales de l’UE, comme en Suède, en France et en Allemagne, qui sont préoccupées par la confidentialité et la sécurité, recommandent et déploient Nextcloud depuis des années. Il est formidable de voir la plus haute autorité de l’UE en matière de respect de la vie privée mener cet effort maintenant !

Le EDPS a déployé Nextcloud pour « partager des fichiers, envoyer des messages, faire des appels vidéo et permettre la rédaction collaborative,dans un environnement cloud sécurisé« . (souligné dans la citation originale). Pour permettre l’adoption de Nextcloud dans l’UE, le CEPD a travaillé avec nous chez Nextcloud et notre grand partenaire TAS Cloud Services pour améliorer l’intégration de Nextcloud avec EU login, le service d’authentification des utilisateurs de la Commission européenne. Les services cloud du CEPD et de TAS offriront aux autres institutions, organes et agences de l’UE la même solution que celle déployée au CEPD.

Cela signifie que tout institut de l’UE, de la cour de justice au parlement, peut désormais disposer facilement d’une plateforme de communication et de collaboration sécurisée, facile à utiliser et entièrement conforme. Il n’est plus nécessaire de risquer la souveraineté des données en s’appuyant sur des plateformes cloud non européennes !

Nextcloud offre le moyen le plus simple d’obtenir le contrôle et la souveraineté numérique sur les données et la communication pour les organisations qui traitent des contenus sensibles ou critiques pour l’entreprise. En tant que plateforme de collaboration sur site et à code source ouvert, elle offre une transparence et un contrôle qu’aucune plateforme SaaS non européenne ne peut offrir. Citation du communiqué de presse du EDPS :

En se procurant le logiciel libre auprès d’une seule entité dans l’UE, on évite le recours à des sous-traitants secondaires. Ce faisant, le EDPS évite les transferts de données vers des pays non membres de l’UE et permet un contrôle plus efficace du traitement des données personnelles.

Les parties intéressées peuvent contacter Nextcloud ou notre partenaire TAS Cloud Services pour déployer une preuve de concept de la plateforme de collaboration que le EDPS a déployée.

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In this blog, we inform you about the Swedish government organization who advocates against the mainstream platform, Zoom, and why they’re pushing for more open source solutions like Nextcloud.

eSam Advises Against Zoom

eSam is a digitalization organization for the Swedish government that comprises of 34 central government organizations. Together, they identified and analyzed collaboration platforms based on open source and open standards. Based on their findings, they provided the government advice in their exclusive report.

In eSam’s most recent report, they advise against government’s use of Zoom.

The conclusion is based off a comprehensive assessment of Zoom which identified and examined key risks to the platform and service agreement. These include data that may be made available to US cloud service providers, aggregation risk, End-to-End encryption issues and much more.

Government entities have far too much sensitive and confidential data to put their institution or its citizens at any form of risk.

Swedish government recommends Nextcloud

In a previous report from 2021, eSam recommends Nextcloud as a premier solution for digital collaboration including file storage and kanban. eSam claims Nextcloud meets their requirements due to Nextcloud being an actively managed solution, providing a wide range of features and applications and its ability to be hosted on its own IT infrastructure and data centers. They were also intrigued by the option of a Swedish supplier implementing Nextcloud, as the organization advocates for public services to only use Swedish cloud services to handle confidential information.

There is a great deal to be said in hosting in your own data center, or on a server managed by you on-premises. It entails 100% control over your data and 100% compliance satisfied. You can even have on-premises video conferencing and chat with Talk – Nextcloud’s compliant, online meeting platform that beats Zoom out the park.

Nextcloud Talk: Your video, chats and data are secure

Nextcloud Talk is the secure, open source alternative where you can host and participate in online meetings with your security in check. Unlike Zoom’s extraordinary data leak history, Nextcloud Talk reduces risk of leakage due to all data being held safely on your own server.

Talk is made for communication – whether that’s private, group or public video calls or chats. It enables all essential features and functionalities including integrated screensharing, collaboration through file sharing, whiteboards and more while prioritizing security and confidentiality more than any other platform.

Nextcloud Talk security features:

• Multi-layered encryption
• Brute force protection
• Video verification options
• Access, authentification and privacy permissions
• AI based suspicious login detection
• Backing of Security Big Bounty Program (Worth $10,000)
• GDPR compliant

Sweden forges future of digitilization

Sweden is one European country at the forefront of digitilization and confronting change in the industry monopolized by Big Tech. The Swedish government just announced the launch of a 4-year digitalization plan to transform the country’s public sector.

Several government entities have already chosen Nextcloud as their secure file storage and collaboration platform. The Swedish Aviation – National Air Traffic Management with partner Iver Sverige AB, and the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Forsakringskassan) with partners Kafit and Atea are proud Nextcloud users. Other enterprises and organizations in Sweden from schools to businesses are also deploying Nextcloud.

As reported by WIRED, the « Zoom Boom » is over, and if you don’t take it from us, take it from the Swedish government’s highly trusted IT partner eSam: Zoom is effectively an untrustworthy solution for protecting your data concerning their fuzzy policies on third-party agreements, past data leak scandals and the unbeknownst risk of what could come next.

Regain control over your data with Nextcloud and immediately tick security with a .

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Nextcloud Office est composé de Write, Spreadsheet, Present, Draw et Text. Nextcloud Write est dédié à la rédaction et à l’édition de documents, Spreadsheet à la création de feuilles de calcul complètes, Present à la création de diapositives et de présentations, Draw au brainstorming par le biais de croquis, de diagrammes et de graphiques et Text à la prise de notes rapide.

Montage collaboratif

Dans Nextcloud Office, vous pouvez collaborer avec vos collègues en éditant et en interagissant de la manière qui vous convient le mieux. Travaillez en solo et suivez les modifications que vous avez apportées, qui apparaissent dans une couleur différente pour que l’auteur puisse les assimiler facilement. Travaillez ensemble à distance et en silence avec l’édition et les commentaires en temps réel, également en plusieurs couleurs. Ou travaillez ensemble dans un appel vidéo virtuel et éditez simultanément un document.

De plus, tout se fait sur une seule et même plateforme. Oubliez l’ouverture d’une nouvelle application – les documents Office, les présentations et les feuilles de calcul peuvent tous être visualisés et modifiés directement dans votre Nextcloud.

• Modifiez des documents en temps réel avec plusieurs autres éditeurs
• Insérer et répondre aux commentaires
• Invitez d’autres personnes sans compte Nextcloud pour l’édition anonyme de fichiers – en utilisant un dossier partagé par un lien public !

Une suite bureautique intégrée

L’une des caractéristiques de pointe de Nextcloud Office est sa forte capacité d’intégration. Office est intégré au reste de votre Nextcloud, y compris Fichiers, Photos, Talk et plus encore, afin qu’ils puissent être utilisés de manière interopérable. Par exemple, vous pouvez :

• Insérez des images directement dans un document/une feuille de calcul/une présentation à partir de votre Nextcloud
• Partagez un document dans un salon de discussion pour le modifier avec les participants, et lancez un appel audio ou vidéo pendant la modification.
• Partagez des liens internes et externes avec des options d’accès protégées
• Modifiez des documents à partir de la pièce jointe d’une tâche, d’un élément de calendrier, dans le salon de discussion et à de nombreux autres endroits dans Nextcloud.

Sur le côté droit d’un document, d’une feuille de calcul ou d’une présentation, l’onglet ou la barre latérale des médias ouvre la porte au suivi de l’activité, au chat, aux commentaires, à une multitude de capacités de partage et au suivi des versions.

Comment installer

1. Configurer un serveur Collabora Online

Nextcloud Office est construit sur Collabora Online qui nécessite un service dédié fonctionnant à côté de Nextcloud. Il existe plusieurs façons de faire fonctionner ce service :

Nextcloud All In One : Nextcloud Office est préinstallé prêt à l’emploi dans la configuration Nextcloud All In One et permet un déploiement et une maintenance faciles avec la plupart des fonctionnalités incluses dans cette instance Nextcloud unique.

Installation par le biais de paquets de distribution : Il existe des paquets pour toutes les principales distributions Linux qui permettent de déployer un serveur Collabora Online en l’installant par le biais de la gestion habituelle des paquets. Pour un exemple de guide d’installation sur Ubuntu, voir : Exemple d’installation sur Ubuntu 20.04.

Installation par Docker : Des images Docker sont disponibles pour déployer le serveur Collabora Online dans des environnements de conteneurs. Pour un guide détaillé étape par étape, voir : Exemple d’installation avec Docker.

Serveur CODE intégré : Le serveur de code intégré est une application Nextcloud qui vous permet de fonctionner sans configuration de serveur supplémentaire et fournit toutes les fonctions d’édition de documents de Collabora Online. Il est facile à installer et est destiné à un usage personnel ou à de petites équipes. Cependant, il est un peu plus lent qu’un serveur autonome sans les fonctions d’évolutivité avancées. L’installation peut être effectuée en activant l’application Nextcloud. Vous trouverez de plus amples détails dans la documentation de l’application.

Dans la plupart des scénarios, l’exploitation d’un serveur dédié de Collabora Online nécessitera la mise en place d’une sorte de proxy inverse devant celui-ci. Pour plus de détails, voir Reverse proxy.

2. Activez l’application Nextcloud Office

Naviguez dans la gestion des applications de vos instances Nextcloud et activez l’application « Nextcloud Office ».

3. Connectez l’application Nextcloud Office au serveur Collabora Online

Pour connecter vos serveurs, vous devrez entrer l’URL du serveur Collabora Online dans les paramètres de Nextcloud Office. Après avoir cliqué sur enregistrer, vous pouvez commencer à utiliser Nextcloud Office. Pour construire le serveur CODE, vous n’avez pas besoin d’entrer une URL, il suffit de cocher l’option « Utiliser le serveur CODE intégré ».

Le seul bureau privé de données

Dans le monde du bureau en ligne d’aujourd’hui, votre vie privée est menacée plus que tout. Les informations, documents et données confidentiels ne peuvent plus être enfermés dans un classeur. Toutes les données sont constamment vulnérables au piratage, aux systèmes non cryptés, aux menaces, aux fuites et plus encore. Il n’y a aucune garantie de protection de vos données, à moins que vous n’utilisiez un bureau auto-hébergé où elles restent en permanence sur votre serveur. Avec Nextcloud Office, vos informations privées, vos idées révolutionnaires ou vos stratégies commerciales sont en sécurité.

Comment se compare Nextcloud Office ?

Nextcloud Office est construit en collaboration avec Collabora Online, une suite bureautique basée sur LibreOffice et possède toutes les fonctionnalités des autres plateformes bureautiques populaires, plus encore. Voyez comment certaines caractéristiques et fonctionnalités se comparent :

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It’s no wonder companies today are faced with so many different solutions, as people turning to home office has resulted in explosive growth of new innovations used in modern organizations worldwide. To combat the issue of too many choices, many companies have decided to consolidate all tools and applications into a single, productivity platform.

The single platform has become a one-stop-shop for all your work life: your files, contacts, collaboration efforts and more. This IT innovation saves on cost, improves security and productivity of employees.

In this blog, we will explain the factors influencing companies and governments to choose integrated productivity platforms like Nextcloud over an assortment of individual tools.

Costs

There is a financial cost associated with using multiple platforms for work productivity. Let’s take a look at what some popular platforms are charging businesses and how Nextcloud, a single, integrated platform, compares, from a reputable hosting partner, Deutsche Telekom:

As you can see, when businesses choose to use multiple different platforms, costs will add up significantly. Luckily, this is entirely avoidable with a single productivity platform that is an all-in-one. For a fraction of the cost, you can have all the tools you need for your employees. That goes without noting Nextcloud is entirely open source, avoiding vendor lock-in and protecting your customers’s data privacy.

But there is more to the cost. In most organizations, purchasing a SaaS service or another is a very easy and informal process. And with all those vendors you end up with, getting an overview of what you spend IT budget on is nearly impossible. It is no wonder that studies show over 1/3rd of SaaS spending is wasted. Much of that is due to subscriptions on apps that are no longer used, for employees who left the company, and so on. But here’s the trick: having less vendors means it is easier to get control over your spending!

Now let’s talk about the next benefit, productivity.

Productivity

Switching between different user interfaces all day may seem like second nature, but it adds up in more ways than one. As stated in the Harvard Business Review study, research in psychology and neuroscience have shown that jumping between tasks — also called “context switching” — is cognitively taxing. It slows you down, derails your focus causing more opportunities for errors and ultimately decreases your daily work productivity.

Take this example: You’ve finally finished a project with an important customer and you’re ready to show the final report to your manager. However, you can’t remember where your final report is located. Did you upload it onto Dropbox? Or was it in that long email chain? Or rather, did your colleague put it on his daughter’s USB stick while he was working from home? As you can see, a file can get lost quite easily if you don’t have one dedicated place for it, not to mention the communication and workflow involving the file. In Nextcloud’s single platform, your file is stored where you left it – in one folder.

Not only is everything in one place making things easier, but tools are integrated. Back to our example, once you’re in a video call to show your manager your final report, you can simply share the file right into the conversation. With Nextcloud Talk, you can share any file, document or spreadsheet in a chat or video call. Forgetting your final report’s location is a problem simply in the past.

More examples of Nextcloud’s interoperability are:

• Sharing a document within the document itself in the media tab where you can even configure restricted access if necessary
• Sharing a document directly in a Talk video call or chat
• Sharing a document in an appointment in Calendar so it’s readily available for all parties
• Sharing a document in a Deck card to better collaborate

Your collaboration possibilities are truly endless when you never have to leave the platform.

Security

In just the first half of 2022, there have been 236.1 million ransomware attacks worldwide. Given this incredible rise of ransomware attacks, it’s vital for your organization or company to take protective action. Using 5 different applications means 5x the risk of a breach, and often, due to password re-use or single-sign-on, a breach in one spreads to the others. So, using a single collaboration platform decreases the security risks of an organisation or company.

As a Nextcloud Enterprise user, you have access to early security and stability patches and if you host on-premises or in a local data center, it’s all under your control too. No need to wait for a third party to inform you of the breach or hope they act competently.

Ease of maintenance

Each platform you run or use has to be managed and maintained. And especially when you host them yourself, you need to have and maintain the inhouse expertise to run the system. Certainly, running a Java, PHP, Go and Node.JS each require different skills to maintain, security reports to keep up to date with and so on. Besides the different down time schedules this would result in, scaling is another concern: each of these technologies scales in a different way, horizontally or vertically, and has different bottlenecks (CPU, memory, bandwidth and so on).

Certainly, having such a heterogenous environment might be fun for sysadmin. But it won’t be for the rest of the organisation, at least in terms of cost, security and long term stability. And when a problem shows up and the different products and their support teams all point fingers to each other rather than taking responsibility and fixing the problem, even the system administrator will lose interest…

While Nextcloud uses various technologies where it makes sense, including Rust, Go, PHP and C++, it is a well understood and designed whole, scaling consistently. We take responsibility for the entire product, saving cost and improving reliability.

A trend just begun

Integrated, single platforms like Nextcloud are just at the beginning of a trend that’s really just begun. Larger companies like Microsoft and Google have already been working towards single platforms for years because they see the benefits for their customers and cost advantages. Even one-product companies like Zoom are now looking towards expanding into an entire « Zoomtopia » complete with mail and calendar.

But are those separate solutions not better?

Often you’ll hear: pick the best tool for the job. And yes, will Calendly have, somewhere tucked in a corner, a feature you won’t find in an integrated solution from Microsoft, Google or Nextcloud? Perhaps.

Certainly, not all software is the same, and for a feature you lose left, you gain another on the right. But the benefit of an improved user experience often outweighs the occasional feature difference, certainly for less technical users. Is it worth the additional security risk, additional administrative overhead, maintenance work and cost?

If you rely on multiple platforms for their product just because they are « the expert » on their product, you might want to think again. By using a single platform, you save in cost, increase productivity, can rely on high security and maintenance.

What our users have to say

Our users have experienced first-hand what a single platform can do for their business. Read on to see what some of them say about how Nextcloud meets and exceeds their productivity, security and maintenance goals.

“Collabora, Nextcloud Talk, News, Announcement Center is what bounds me within the software. I don’t have to use different applications to communicate with my colleagues, don’t need different applications to sync my files, don’t need different applications to read my atom feeds, etc. You know where I’m going. Nextcloud is the complete set of application. It has indeed replaced Dropbox, Google Drive, Zoom, Google RSS Reader, and tons of other software from my life.”

Diggaj U., reviewer on Capterra

One of the reasons Sam T. chose Nextcloud for his business was because of the large app ecosystem.

“Its easy to use, stable and dependable, extremely customisable, and works across all mobile and desktop operating systems. Perhaps most importantly, through the built in app store, it serves as a platform for many other key business applications which we need, such as collaborative document editing, calendar and contact sync and share, internal knowledge base (wiki), and more.”

Sam T., reviewer on Capterra

“It’s a brilliant way of sharing files across multiple devices and sharing files with others. I was looking for my own version of Dropbox and Nextcloud fits the bill, and some. Some of the more recent Apps really could make this a complete solution, with the Collarora/Onlyoffice integration, Decks, Circles, Passwords, Email, Talk, etc. And it’s open source.”

Adrian W., reviewer on Capterra

How do you use Nextcloud to better collaborate? What does it mean for you to work on a single platform?

We’d love to hear from you – write a comment below or review us today on one of the many rating platforms that support our product and service.

We hope you enjoyed this article about why using a single platform is more productive and efficient by ten-fold!

Nextcloud Reviews

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2 major releases: Nextcloud Hub 2 & 3

This year, Nextcloud announced 2 major releases of Hub 2 in May and Hub 3 in September.

Nextcloud Hub 2 introduced reactions and a media tab in Nextcloud Talk, undo and schedule sending email functionalities, as well as performance and scalability improvements in the back-end of Nextcloud Files.

Nextcloud Hub 3 was an even greater step forward where we announced our stunning new design, accessibility options and a bunch of new features to improve your digital well-being.

• Nextcloud Photos 2.0: Photo editor, AI powered face and object recognition, tile view, album sharing and more!
• Nextcloud Groupware: Mail 2.0 with improved performance and updated user interface. Contacts introduces organizational chart view
• Nextcloud Talk: Polls, pasted links become widgets, more options –> more details in our blog!
• Nextcloud Clients: updates available for Desktop, Android and iOS clients

One of our greatest releases yet, we hope it’s brought you joy, productivity and a healthier work life balance.

CloudComputing-Insider Awards winner

For the 2nd time in a row, Nextcloud won 1st prize in the Cloud Content Management category of the CloudComputing-Insider Awards. The vote came from approximately 70,000 IT professionals and left behind Microsoft and Dropbox.

We’re very proud of this and we’d like to thank everyone who made this possible, that is, all of you! Especially all of you who voted, but also everyone else who consistently helps spread the word or improve Nextcloud directly with code, documentation, or helping other users on our forums. Every bit makes a difference!

Enterprise Day x2

Nextcloud held 2 Enterprise Days this year – in June and October – for our valued customers. Both events had a great turnout, led to interesting discussions and inspired the Nextcloud team to bring you even better features and functionalities for the future. If you got the opportunity to attend this year, thank you for your participation and those who missed it, we will announce next years soon!

In-person Nextcloud Conference

At the beginning of October, Nextcloud hosted its first in-person conference since 2019. Held over the weekend, we welcomed keynote speakers Maik Außendorf from the German Bundestag and digital rights and data privacy experts Felix Reda and Renata Ávila. From there were 2 panel sessions, 26 lightning talks and 4 workshops!

It was so wonderful seeing many of you in person this year and hope you had a great time meeting new people, listening to all the insightful talks and hacking with old friends.

Hackathon with the European Commission

In April and May this year, Nextcloud and the European Commission held the NextGov Hackathon that brought together 60 participants from 33 countries. There were 5 prize winners with 1st place going to a collaborative maps app by a participant from Germany.

Thank you to all the participants who contributed to our goal of building and protecting Europe’s digital sovereignty.

Check out all the winners here.

Success Stories

Dutch hospital ZGT

Dutch hospital ZGT is one of the first in the medical industry to achieve digital sovereignty with Nextcloud.

Read case study

Stadtsparkasse Munich

Nextcloud partner HKN has provided this Munich city bank with a secure, compliant collaboration platform.

Read case study

City of Geneva

Find out how the City of Genève aims to protect their digital sovereignty with this new case study.

Read case study

Digitally Sovereign Office

European Governments work with Nextcloud to build Digitally Sovereign Office

Read more

Role Model

The European Commission praises Nextcloud as a Role Model for the Open-Source Businesses

Read more

Nextcloud in Sweden

GDPR compliant collaboration coming to 750K students, teachers and researchers in Sweden

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Growing international team

This year has brought exciting growth to the Nextcloud team. We have hired 16 new employees to several departments and have developed our regional marketing team to reach greater audiences around the world.

Available in more languages!

We are excited to offer our reach to more people around the world through our website being available in 4 languages (German, French, Spanish and Italian) as well as introducing new social media channels in 8 different languages!

Follow us on

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• Spanish: @nextcloudesp
• Italy: @NextcloudItalia
• Brazil: @NextcloudBrazil
• France: @NextcloudFrance
• Japan: @NextcloudJapan
• Sweden: @NextcloudSweden
• Norway: @NextcloudNorway

➤ Facebook:

• Spanish: Nextcloud en Español
• Italian: Nextcloud Italia
• Brazil: Nextcloud Brasil

➤ Linkedin:

• Spanish: Nextcloud en Español
• Italian: Nextcloud Italia
• Brazil: Nextcloud Brasil
• France: Nextcloud France
• Germany: Nextcloud Deutschland
• Netherlands: Nextcloud Nederland

8 New Integrations and Partnerships

Shadow

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Rocket.Chat

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OpenProject

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MariaDB

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NUITEQ

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Webex

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Zimbra

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EU Government: Advisory Board

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Ciao 2022! See you in 2023!

2022 was one for the books. Thank you for being part of this journey with us, and see you in the New Year!

And remember, If you would like to receive more Nextcloud news regularly throughout the next year, subscribe to our Nextcloud Newsletter and keep an eye on our Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn profile!

Cheers,

The Nextcloud Team

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Shadow is probably best known for their remote gaming PC platform described as « the only fully realized cloud gaming service out there » and « the definitive cloud gaming experience » by cloudwards. It boasted 100.000 gamers in 2020 and has extended its platform since being bought by OVHcloud founder Octave Klaba. Shadow is now announcing the immediate availability of the Nextcloud based Shadow Drive in all European countries where Shadow services operate. This includes France, UK, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Sweden, and Denmark. Spain will launch on December 7th.

Shadow Drive will allow users to store their data while keeping it accessible from anywhere. Data will be accessible via its web interface and through Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS (still in Beta) applications.

Our ambition to liberate technology from its hardware limitations also passes through Shadow Drive, our cloud storage solution, with the help of our prestigious partner Nextcloud, a partnership for which I thank Frank. We are particularly excited about this joint European project

— Eric Sèle, CEO of SHADOW

Initially soft launched this summer, Shadow Drive already counts nearly 25 000 users ahead of its general launch. The service will also be available on December 7th in Spain, and in 2023 in North America.

Shadow is free for up to 20 GB of storage. And by free, they do not mean freemium: « our users’ data will never be sold or used, and we will never integrate ads », shares Shadow. A premium version of the service offers storage up to 2 TB.

Check the Downloads page for more details. As for all SHADOW services, it’s a non-binding offer, and it’s independent of any Shadow PC subscription.

We live in an age where all of our digital life, all of our communications are now in the cloud, and most of it is hosted overseas. I have no desire to live in a world where five giants own all the files in the world. That’s why I’m excited that we work together with SHADOW, as our two companies share values of excellence, openness, and European sovereignty.

— Frank Karlitschek, CEO of Nextcloud

Shadow Drive is a European-owned and based service, meaning European users’ data will always remain in Europe, through European sovereign solutions.  You can discover more of what digital sovereignty means for Shadow and Nextcloud in a previous blog post.

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