List of collaborative software

This is a list of collaborative software (or list of groupware) applications. Wiki software is on a list of wiki software.

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
  • 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

• 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

• Wiki engines: see List of wiki software
• Realtime editors: see Collaborative editor

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	No	No	No	?	SQL,iCal	iCal	?	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes			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
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

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 functionality. It is free for non-commercial users and organizations.
• 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; Windows, Macs & Linux; private networks; free for educational/academic users.
• Kerio MailServer is a mail and groupware server
• 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
• Kerika: graphical wiki that combines whiteboarding and document management; runs on Windows, Macs & Linux; supports private networks; free for educational/academic users.
• 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

See also

• Comparison of wiki software
• List of wiki software
• List of wiki farms
• Collaborative editor