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Upgrading your enterprise from Office 2007?

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Office 2007 has reached the end of its support lifecycle, meaning there are no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options. So – it is time to upgrade to Collabora Office, save a fortune in the process, and have a great relationship with real engineers working on the product for you.

Why Collabora Office?

Collabora are one of the largest contributors to LibreOffice, the most powerful free and open source office suite. We strongly believe that deploying Collabora Office provides access to our huge depth of experience, combined with long term support, security maintenance, easy of deployment features (MSP patches, ADMX group policy management), and of course we love to work with our customers to help shape our product features and roadmap as we go ahead.

Long Term Support

Collabora Office’s long term support and maintenance gives you the flexibility to upgrade on your timeline and to suit your certification and integrations – with extended support options available. Collabora Office allows you to file an un-limited number of Level-3 (code fix) tickets with Collabora which we address as part of our product management process as we work together. We also have a token prioritization process – based on your spend that drives our ongoing product development work.

For those who would like an SLA on their issue fixes – with engineers starting work on your timeline with your severity to rapidly fix any issue you may come across – we provide Level 3 (code fix) support entitlement packages to provide the ultimate peace of mind.

How can I get it?

Have a closer look and try out Collabora Office! If you have any questions feel free to contact us today at sales@collaboraoffice.com

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Collabora Office 5.3 Released

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Cambridge, April 21 2017 – Today we released Collabora Office 5.3 and Collabora GovOffice 5.3, which contain great new features and enhancements. They also contains all fixes from the upstream libreoffice-5-3 branch and several backported features.

Changes from 5.1 to 5.3

The biggest change in this release is the inclusion of a long list of new features, combined with many User Interface improvements, making Collabora Office more powerful and at the same time faster and more comfortable to work with. Collabora is privileged to be part of the LibreOffice community and greatfully acknowledges all the amazing work done by everyone. Below is a list of general updates, and Writer, Calc and Impress specific updates.

General updates

The list of new and updated features is extensive, including:

  • Many GUI improvements, including
    • New panels in the sidebar menu
    • Improved and simplified dialogs
    • Improved visibility of Keyboard shortcuts
    • Direct link to user guides in the help menu
  • Safe Mode
  • Improved and new filters
  • And much more, including a long list of bug fixes…

Writer specific updates

  • New Table Styles option
  • New Go to Page Dialog
  • New arrows toolbox
  • General toolbar improvements
  • and more…

Calc specific updates

  • Improved Number Format options
  • Improved Pivot tables functionality
  • New Arrows Toolbox
  • Compatibility with ODF 1.2
  • and more…

Impress specific updates

  • Improved Template Selector functionality
  • New templates (Vivid and Pencil)
  • Improvements in existing templates
  • and more…

Complete list of updates

Check out the complete list of updates in the 5.3 release notes wiki page at the site of The Document Foundation.

Distinctive features

Collabora Office clients can take full advantage of new and useful features that have been created by Collabora for our customers since the 5.3 release, backported in to the enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice with Long Term Support: Collabora Office. New features are backported frequently, and with this Collabora Office 5.3 release already includes:

  • PDF export of Writer and Impress documents now supports embedded and linked videos
  • PDF images inserted via Insert -> Image now use pdfium to create the preview bitmap, providing increased rendering quality
  • Improved roundtrip of PDF images in PDF files for alternative PDF viewers (other than Adobe Acrobat)
  • Exporting SharePoint lists to Calc, with support of .iqy files (Excel Web Query files) and MS ADO recordsets

Manage complex user needs with ease

As with our previous version, Collabora Office 5.3 also allows system administrators to quickly apply per-user configurations to large-scale deployments thanks to extended support for Windows Server ADMX Group Policy templates. Developed by Collabora, this facility allows multiple users on a single machine to have separate local settings, managed centrally by an administrator. These include many options, such as those relating to language, security, and file formats.

Collabora GovOffice

This release also includes a new Collabora GovOffice release. Collabora GovOffice is for the Public Sector, providing 5 years of Long Term Support. Please contact us for more information.

Try a demo of Collabora Office 5.3

You can try Collabora Office 5.3 yourself! Just head to the Collabora Office page and request your demo today.

Hostingcon first ever event in the USA to show Collabora Online

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Collabora Productivity, the developers behind LibreOffice Online, is proud to announce to have a booth at Hostingcon 2017, in Los Angeles, USA. This will be the first ever event in the United Stated where Collabora Online, the enterprise-ready LibreOffice Online office suite, will be shown to the public.

HostingCon is the annual must-attend event for Cloud & Sevice Provider Industry Insiders, designed exclusively to boost their success and help them to grow their business. Among many other interesting stands, you can visit the stand of Collabora Productivity to see a live demo of Collabora Online, LibreOffice in the Cloud!

Why should I check out Collabora’s stand at Hostingcon?

Collabora Online is a powerful LibreOffice-based online office that supports all major document, spreadsheet and presentation file formats, which you can integrate in your own infrastructure.
Key features are collaborative editing and excellent office file format support.

For Hosting and Cloud businesses:
Hosting and Cloud businesses who wish to include document viewing and collaborative editing functionality into their service offering can do this now with Collabora Online.

For Enterprises:
Collabora Online is excellent for enterprises that need a powerful office suite in the cloud, or on-premise, that protects their privacy and allows them to keep full control of their sensitive corporate data.

If you visit our stand at Hostingcon, you’ll be able to see a demo of LibreOffice in the Cloud with Collabora Online, and you can test it out yourself! Plus, you’ll find a wealth of information on how you can grow your business with Collabora Online, either by adding it to your product portfolio as a hosting and cloud business, or as a self-hosted online office suite as an enterprise, on premise or in the cloud.

When and where?

Meet us at Hostingcon from April 3-6, 2017 in the Los Angeles Convention Center – West Hall, Los Angeles, California. The exhibit hall is open on Wednesday, April 5, and Thursday, April 6. You can find us in booth 532, on the main aisle to the lunch area.

Looking forward to seeing you there!