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
    • 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

• 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

• Feature Comparison Table

Proprietary software

The following are proprietary software applications:

• Adobe Acrobat Connect is an online training, web conferencing, and learning solution that leverages Adobe Flash technology and is provided as an on-premise and hosted offering.
• Adobe Acrobat provides for synchronous and asynchronous review of PDF's.
• 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.
• EMC Documentum eRoom is collaboration software provided through the browser as on-premise or hosted software.
• 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.
• ProjectSpaces is an online workspace tool for project and team collaboration
• 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