Blog – Case Study

Microsoft Office Online Server Ends 1 January 2027. Get the Self-Hosted Alternative Now

For many years, people worried about digital sovereignty in a Microsoft environment have used on-premise Sharepoint and the embedded Microsoft Office Online (MOO) editors to allow users to collaborate on internal documents with private or confidential data. However – Microsoft has announced that Office Online Server will reach end of...

Ideals to Entrapment: A UK Government Case Study of How Not to Run IT Infrastructure

We’ve just worked through the CMA’s 637-page Final decision report (and a few appendices!) on the UK cloud infrastructure market. It’s packed with genuinely interesting data and analysis — the kind of numbers you rarely see in public (even if some of the juiciest bits are, inevitably, redacted). This post...

How The German Government is Planning for an Open Future

Launching openDesk 1.0 at the Smart Country Convention After previously speaking about our involvement in the openDesk project here, we were very excited to attend the Smart Country Convention in Berlin last week as part of the openDesk platform, where one of the standout moments of the event was the...

New Features in 2 Weeks? A Success Story of Productive Pivoting Spreadsheets

At Collabora Productivity, we like to be productive by name and by nature. One recent feature fix for Danish insurance company – balticfinance, has shown this to be the case. Ten working days after being requested, the updated pivot table functionality was delivered. Pivot tables are an extremely powerful feature,...

Empowering Education with Collabora Online: A Case Study

During the global pandemic, the Friedrich-List-Gemeinschaftsschule in Mössingen, Germany, seamlessly embraced the challenge of transitioning to online learning. Throughout this process, privacy, reliability, and accessibility were held up, with an open-source strategy leveraging Collabora Online as a vital component of their educational toolkit. “It simply works. And it is reliable....