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
Name Creator Latest stable release Stablerelease date First publicrelease date Database backend License Softwareproductavailable SaaSavailable Adobe LiveCycle Adobe 9 Filesystem Proprietary Alfresco Alfresco Software MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server LGPL Altova MetaTeam Altova GmbH Cloud Proprietary Assembla Assembla Continuous Delivery Proprietary Collaborate HighQ 4.4 Proprietary Collabora Online Collabora n/a as integrates with storage providers MPLv2 ConceptDraw Office CS Odessa 4.4 2018-04-17 Proprietary Confluence Atlassian Proprietary Drupal Drupal 2001 MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Percona Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite GPL 2, 3 EGroupware EGroupware 16.1 2021 MariaDB, MySql, PostgreSQL GPLv2 Easy RedmineEasy Software13.3.0October 20232007MySQL database (Percona)Proprietary Software based on Redmine Elium Elium 4 2024 2009 Proprietary EMC Documentum eRoom EMC 7.4.4 2012 2003 Filesystem Proprietary Google Drive Google Cloud Proprietary GoTo Connect GoTo 4.15.0 2025-05-22 March 2019 Cloud Proprietary Grasshopper GoTo v6.2.2 2025-06-16 2003 Cloud Proprietary HumHubHumHub GmbH & Co. KG; 2014MariaDB, MySQLAGPL IBM Connections Suite IBM IBM Db2 Proprietary IBM Domino IBM 8.5.2 2010-08-24 Proprietary IBM Notes IBM Proprietary IBM Sametime IBM Proprietary ICEFLO Agenor Technology v 3.15.0 2009 IBM SoftLayer Proprietary IceWarp Mail Server IceWarp 14.3.0.4 2026-19-05 Proprietary Jive Jive Software Oracle, MS SQL, Db2, mySQL, Postgres Proprietary Kolab The Kolab-Project and Kolab Systems AG 3.3 2014-08-20 IMAP(File/mail)-based various Free Software licenses Kune Comunes Collective 1.0.0 2015-03-18 AGPL LibreOffice Online The Document Foundation 6.13 2018 MPL 2.0 LogicalDOC Logical Objects Community Edition 8.7.3 2022-02-08 LGPL Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft 2016 2011-08-04 Exchange DB Proprietary Microsoft Live Meeting Microsoft 2007 2007 Proprietary Microsoft Lync Server Microsoft 2010 2010 SQL Server or SQL EE Proprietary Microsoft Office Microsoft 2016 2016 Proprietary Microsoft Project Server Microsoft 2010 2010-06-15 Proprietary Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Microsoft 2013 SP1 2014-04-17 2001 SQL Server or SQL EE Proprietary Microsoft SharePoint Server Microsoft SQL Server or SQL EE Proprietary Microsoft SharePoint Workspace Microsoft Proprietary Microsoft Team Foundation Server Microsoft 2015 2015 SQL Server or SQL EE Proprietary Microsoft Windows Live Microsoft 2011 2010-09 Cloud Proprietary Nefsis Nefsis 3.72 2011-01-07 Cloud Proprietary Nextcloud Nextcloud ; 2016 MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite AGPLv3+ Notion Notion Labs Inc. Proprietary Oracle WebCenter Oracle 11g 2009-07 Proprietary Redmine 2006MultpipleGPLv2 SAP NetWeaver Portal SAP Proprietary Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Tiki Software Community Association October 2002 MariaDB, MySQL LGPL TrackerSuite.Net Automation Centre 3.6 2010-11 SQL Server Proprietary Traction TeamPage Traction Software NoSQL Journal, MySQL Proprietary Wrike Wrike 2013 2007 2006 PostgreSQL Proprietary WPS Office Kingsoft 2019 2019-05-06 1988 SQL Server or SQL EE Proprietary XWiki XWiki May 22, 2007 HSQLDB, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle LGPL Zoho Projects Zoho 5.0 2015-01-20 August 26, 2006 MySQL Proprietary Name Creator Latest stable release Stablerelease date First publicrelease date Database backend License Softwareproductavailable SaaSavailable
Comparison of unified communications features
Name E-mail server Faxing Instant messaging Telephony Videoconferencing Web conferencing Data conferencing Application sharing Electronic meeting system Synchronous conferencing GoTo Connect , virtual fax to email IBM Sametime , integrated with Lotus Domino IBM Lotus Domino with integrated Sametime with integrated Sametime with integrated Sametime with integrated Sametime with integrated Sametime with integrated Sametime IceWarp Mail Server Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Lync Server , integrated with Exchange Server Microsoft SharePoint , integrated with Exchange Server Nextcloud , email to VOIP collaborative editing with integrated video conferencing Name E-mail server Faxing Instant messaging Telephony Videoconferencing Web conferencing Data conferencing Application sharing Electronic meeting system Synchronous conferencing
Comparison of collaborative software features
Name Wikis Web publishing Calendaring software Project management Workflow system Document management List management XML Forms management and workflow Discussion Blogs Surveys Time tracking Business intelligence Charting Bookmarking, Tagging, Rating and Comments Social software Enterprise search Office suite ClickUp Easy Redmine EGroupware , web, webdav Google Workspace , Sites , Sites , simple , simple IBM Connections , simple , simple IBM Lotus Domino , simple IceWarp Mail Server , simple Jive Software , simple , MS Office Interface Kune , simple Microsoft Exchange Server , simple Microsoft Office , simple , desktop Microsoft Project Server Microsoft SharePoint , simple , web Microsoft Team Foundation Server Nextcloud , limited , limited , limited , limited Smartsheet , MS Office Interface Traction TeamPage , simple , plug-in , basic , usage charts, API , plug-in , web, webdav Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware , simple (newsletter) (basic) , web Wrike , web Trello , limited XWiki Enterprise, extension, extension, extension, extension, extension, extension, extension, extension, extension, and extension for rating, (Lucene/SolR), webZoho Projects, limited, limited, web Name Wikis Web publishing Calendaring software Project management Workflow system Document management List management XML Forms management and workflow Discussion Blogs Surveys Time tracking Business intelligence Charting Bookmarking, Tagging, Rating and Comments Social software Enterprise search Office suite
Comparison of targets
Name Public Intranet Extranet Personal Sites Team Sites Developer IBM Connections IBM Lotus Domino IBM Lotus QuickPlace Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Office Live Communications Server Microsoft SharePoint Microsoft Team Foundation Server Nextcloud Name Public Intranet Extranet Personal Sites Team Sites Developer
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 Mayan EDMS, description: document management system with optical character recognition, metadata, tagging, automatic indexes and workflows 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)