Collabora Online Partners Shine at Open Source Experience Paris 2021

The Open source Experience 2021 in Paris was wonderful. Of course we met a large number of people, but various of Collabora Online partners too! We love to tell you about them.

If you did not visit last week’s open source experience event in Paris, you should do so next year. It was great! And if you did, there is a good change that you saw various active Collabora Online partners! We love to show the good work of no less then five of them, who help their customers and end users in a number of different ways.

First, let us begin by giving credit where it is deserved.

Arawa team

Arawa won the award for best open source innovation strategy in Paris! They deserve it for helping many medium and large size organizations as well as public administrations with moving and consolidating on open source.

Learn more about Arawa

We were also very exited to see friends from Jeci and their nice booth. They are working hard on the next version of their Alfresco-Collabora Online integration.

Learn more about Jeci

Individuals that want a pure and solid hosted Collabora Online, canfind a good one at Workteks, showing their latest service news within Paris.

Learn more about Worteks

Of a complete different magnitude, is the cooperation, project management and teams software offered by Algoo. Their lovely Tracim nicely integrates with Collabora Online.

Learn more about Tracim

Last but not least: we were really pleased to have been invited by Nextcloud to share a booth at the Open Source Experience in Paris. We shared an attractive booth with them, answering all your questions, exhibiting demos, and handing out some t-shirt, stickers & more.

The good people over at Nextcloud are working hard on finishing their next major release, including some wonderful office news 😉

Thanks everyone! We’re really glad that so many have found the way to your secure, privacy respecting software.

Grateful for the rich and diverse partners and support for our work

We are happy to have met many of you & others at the Paris event. Further we feel greatly honoured that our software helps so many businesses in doing great things for their customers and end users alike!

 


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If you want to benefit from partnering with Collabora and from all the possibilities of Collabora Online,
do contact our sales team!

Collabora Online performance wins – an insight into our ongoing work

Optimizing the performance of Collabora Online is one of the central focal points within our current development work. Following improvements in the recent Collabora Online 6.4.10 release, the upcoming 21.11 release will exhibit more of the continuous improvements in this area. The improvements may be noticeably experienced through a variety of daily work done by means of the software. But how exactly does the implementation of massive performance improvements work? It can be compared to solid detective work. Follow us through this search for clues!

Performance improvement for multiple users – a detective story 🔎

In advance of the actual coding, working on performance improvements closely resembles detective work. Simulating multiple users working on the same document, is something that turned out to be feasible with the feature in LibreOffice purposed for displaying a document within different windows (Window > New Window). This was a feature that already existed in LibreOffice predecessor OpenOffice. It may be a rarely used feature on the desktop, but it does mirror the way of collaborative editing with Collabora Online. However, one must then find out how this code scales… The investigator in this story is Collabora developer LuboÅ¡ Luňák. He was on to something big here, which led to significant performance improvements across various levels, ultimately benefiting all users of LibreOffice Technology. The technical details of his search and subsequent conclusions can be seen on LuboÅ¡’ blog.

 

 

Performance wins illustrated 📊

While extensive work continues with its progress, a list of current performance improvements is also available on LuboÅ¡ Luňák’s blog. The following video of the Collabora Online perf-test – a test routine we use to measure performance in Collabora Online – illustrates the performance improvements of the implementations already made. The test simulates the fast, simultaneous typing of six users in a document (the other five are not visible in the video because they are writing elsewhere in the document). The rigorous test setting, which goes far beyond what is required of the software in everyday use, is ideally suited to visualizing performance improvements. In the video, you can see the performance of Collabora Online before the latest optimizations in the upper excerpt, and the significantly better performance in current versions during (middle) and after optimizations have been implemented (bottom).

Optimizing pathological loads – before/during/after

 

Performance talk at COOL Days 2021 🆒

Collabora developer LuboÅ¡ Luňák discussed the various performance improvements in Collabora Online during the Developer Day at COOL Days 2021, a conference hosted by Collabora and dedicated entirely to Collabora Online. His talk “Rendering wastage and performance wins” covered the profiling process, described existing performance issues and displayed a variety of improvements at different levels. Technically interested people can find his talk on YouTube. The corresponding slides are also available for download.

Watch the video!
Download the slides!

 

 

Please try out Collabora Online 21.11 – RC 1, and let us know of any workloads which you find have issues so that we may expand our internal testing & benchmarking to include them.

About Collabora Online

Collabora Online is the powerful LibreOffice-based online office that supports all major documents, spreadsheets and presentation file formats, which can all be easily integrated in many infrastructures and solutions. Key features are collaborative editing and excellent office file formatting support. Collabora Online is excellent for enterprises that need a powerful office suite in the Cloud, or on-premises, that protects their privacy and allows them to keep full control of their sensitive corporate data. Collabora Online – built on LibreOffice Technology – enables Hosting and Cloud businesses to include document viewing and collaborative editing functionality into their service offerings.