ONLYOFFICE Groups for hosting providers
Supply productivity, security and even more
Want to build a sought-after productivity solution that will have your clientele grow steadily? Or perhaps you decided to improve your service with some additional functionality?
While making business remotely was trending in the previous decade, now it’s a definite necessity to have a full pack of productivity tools at hand.
In this article we’ll spotlight how you can use ONLYOFFICE Groups to meet your customers needs and some attractive points about this solution.
About ONLYOFFICE Groups
ONLYOFFICE Groups is a free online collaboration platform with seven major modules:
- Documents* — a reliable place for storing and managing files of many formats (even multimedia), and sharing data with flexibly variable access rights.
- Projects — a module with tools for assigning tasks, choosing responsible persons, setting up due dates, generating reports and in-depth team productivity analytics.
- Mail — all correspondence centralized, corporate mail domains, access to message history and attached files, templatesand tags for easy communication.
- Talk — XMPP server for instant messaging, mass mailing, creating chatrooms, getting notifications about tasks and events etc.
- CRM — this module allows users to build a contact base, communicate with customers, make voice calls and issue invoices directly from the browser, quickly register potential customers, and track down order fulfillment.
- Community — blogs, forums, wiki and more for easy team interaction and sharing useful information. A separate forum can be created for each particular purpose e.g. for any project branch or FAQ.
- Calendar — an indispensable tool for planning events and meetings, creating personal and group schedules, setting up reminders about important events for the team and integration with third-party calendars.
*Important! Note that document editors are provided separately. Please contact our sales department for an individual offer.
7 reasons to choose Groups
Apart from rich business-oriented functionality, ONLYOFFICE Groups has special advantages that may help you go for it. Here are some of the most important ones:
Open source (Apache) — released under Apache 2.0, Groups comes as a free solution that you can tailor to your needs and distribute under your own brand.
Branding. ONLYOFFICE Groups offers tools for easy configuration and customization of your platform. Put the logo or name of your company, special links, use the built-in color themes and do even more for personalization.
Open API. Some necessary feature missing? We know that each hosting provider has its own target audience and strives to meet its needs. With our open well-documented API you can create custom modules and integrate them into your platform, including payment systems.
Self-hosted solution. ONLYOFFICE offers a huge variety of options for local installation, including .deb packages for Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives, .rpm packages RHEL, CentOS and derivatives, Docker image or .exe package for Windows server. All installation instructions and system requirements are available on our website.
Easy configuration and administration. ONLYOFFICE Groups has an intuitive control panel to easily create multiple portals, manage security and updates, make backups and restore data, activate full-text search in documents and mail. Administrate your portal in a few clicks!
Integration with third-party services. ONLYOFFICE always willingly integrates with popular third-party services. Enable trusted applications to log in, authenticate, connect cloud storages, sign documents etc. (Google, Dropbox, DocuSign, Twilio, Telegram and more) to make your service more comprehensive and easy to use. Currently more than 30 apps are available! But if something is missing, you can use the API documentation to get the integration you need.
Security — keeping your clients data safe is the core factor of earning trust and loyalty. With ONLYOFFICE Groups admins are able to encrypt storage using AES-256, track down audit, portal activity, regularly backup and restore data, centralize access with SSO and LDAP, enable 2FA, move to HTTPS, use IP restriction and more. Also, ONLYOFFICE tools help you stay GDPR compliant. More about security >>
ONLYOFFICE Groups is a free, secure and ready to use collaboration platform. Besides, it gives your customers a large toolkit to literally create your own — the one to meet all requirements. In other words, your opportunities are unlimited!
Need to enable professional online editing features for documents on your platform? Consider integrating ONLYOFFICE Docs.
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