First African partner to offer Collabora Online

Cambridge, United Kingdom – February 23, 2017 – Collabora Productivity, the developers behind LibreOffice Online, has partnered with Retention Range in Botswana, making Collabora Online available for the first time in Africa.

By including enterprise-ready LibreOffice Online with Collabora Online to their product portfolio, Retention Range provides local and regional businesses and institutions with a high quality, Open Source online office suite that improves their productivity, and allows them to stay in full control of their own office documents.

Collabora Online works directly from any modern web browser, without the need of downloading any add-on or plugin, has excellent support for all popular office file formats and includes collaborative editing features, Long Term Support, signed security updates and a SLA.

We are excited to partner with Retention Range” said Michael Meeks, General Manager at Collabora Productivity. “We value partners that listen carefully to the needs of their customers, and aim to exceed their expectations with the best Open Source software solutions out there.

Collabora Online is an impressive online office software” said Selefo Sabone, Managing Director at Retention Range. “Collabora Online, an online office suite will offer our customers a high quality, user friendly and affordable open source alternative to proprietary online office suites that are currently dominating the market. We are giving businesses freedom to grow.

For more information about this partnership, or acquiring Collabora Online, please contact info@retentionrange.co.bw or sales@collaboraoffice.com.

About Collabora Productivity:
Collabora Productivity is the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, providing a range of products and consulting to enterprise and government. Powered by the largest team of certified LibreOffice engineers in the world, it is a leading contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and community. Collabora Office for Desktop and Collabora Online provide a business-hardened office suite with long-term, multi-platform support. Collabora Productivity is a division of Collabora, the global software consultancy dedicated to providing the benefits of Open Source to the commercial world, specialising in mobile, automotive and consumer electronics industries. For more information, visit www.collaboraoffice.com or follow @CollaboraOffice on Twitter.

About Retention Range:
Retention Range is headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. Its offerings include identification of suitable solutions for Governments, Parastatals and the Private Sector; deployment of such solutions, migration from legacy platforms, modifications to improve efficiency of the customer’s businesses, integration with the existing solutions and provide support. Among others we offer Desktop Solutions, Web Development Services and Enterprise Solutions. For more information, visit www.retentionrange.co.bw, Facebook or @retentionrange on Twitter.

Collabora Online available in rural Australia

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Cambridge, United Kingdom – February 16, 2017 – Collabora Productivity, the developers behind LibreOffice Online, and Workman.net.au, an Australian IT services provider, announce a partnership that will bring Collabora Online to remote Australia.

With Collabora Online rural and remote Australians get access to the commercially supported edition of LibreOffice Online, helping them to improve the productivity of their businesses while keeping in full control of their own data. This will have a positive impact on the local communities and the rural economy.

The most recent edition of open source Collabora Online includes the following key features, which are essential for any business that seeks an online office suite: collaborative editing, excellent support for all popular office file formats, Long Term Support, signed security updates, a SLA, and it’s 100% Open Source.

“We are looking forward to work together with Workman.net.au” said Michael Meeks, General Manager at Collabora Productivity. “Workman.net.au’s understanding of the IT needs of rural and remote Australians will be valuable to people in rural Australia that seek to overcome the problems of distance that have always inhibited business development in the Bush.”

“Collabora Online is an excellent product that enables remote and rural Australian businesses to have access to their office documents from any location” said Mark Workman, CEO at Workman.net.au. “With Collabora Online these businesses are able to increase productivity, which will boost the rural economy.”

For more information about this partnership, or acquiring Collabora Online, please contact info@workman.com.au or sales@collaboraoffice.com.

About Collabora Productivity:
Collabora Productivity is the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, providing a range of products and consulting to enterprise and government. Powered by the largest team of certified LibreOffice engineers in the world, it is a leading contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and community. Collabora Office for Desktop and Collabora Online provide a business-hardened office suite with long-term, multi-platform support. Collabora Productivity is a division of Collabora, the global software consultancy dedicated to providing the benefits of Open Source to the commercial world, specialising in mobile, automotive and consumer electronics industries. For more information, visit www.collaboraoffice.com or follow @CollaboraOffice on Twitter.

About Workman.net.au:
In 1980 Mark Workman used an Apple II Plus and an acoustic coupler to send an urgently needed document from a small business in Sydney to a construction site in Perth. The document travelled the 3,297 kilometres in 20 minutes. That began a lifelong passion for computer networking and using its power to overcome the tyranny of distance that hampers Australian business development outside of the capital cities.

Workman.net.au is passionate about servicing the IT needs of rural and remote Australians. At Workman.net.au we want people living in rural and remote Australia to have the same opportunity to benefit from computer technology as those in major cities. Our mission is to ensure that our clients get the return they need from their investment in computers and technology regardless of where they are located.

Studio Storti and Collabora join forces to bring Collabora Online to the Italian market

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Torri di Quartesolo, Italy and Cambridge, United Kingdom – February 14, 2017 – Collabora Productivity, the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, and Studio Storti, the leading provider of Open Source solutions for the Government and Public Administration sector in Italy, announce the first implementation of Collabora Online in Italy.

Collabora and Studio Storti have a long partnership history, and recently a new agreement was signed, adding Collabora Online to the product offering of Studio Storti. Being on top of the needs of enterprises and the Public Sector in Italy, adding stable and supported LibreOffice in the Cloud was the next logical step.

Shortly after, Collabora and Studio Storti worked closely together successfully implementing a fully fledged Collabora Online solution for an Italian customer. With Collabora Online this customer can now access documents from any location, author new content, and increase productivity with collaborative editing features.

We are excited about the first Collabora Online deployment in Italy” said Michael Meeks, General Manager at Collabora Productivity. “Studio Storti has a proven track record of successful open source implementations and we are looking forward to work together on our next Italian Collabora Online customers.

The amount of work Collabora has put in to bringing LibreOffice to the Cloud is impressive” said Paolo Storti, CEO at Studio Storti. “The quick responses of Collabora to meet customer requirements made the first deployment a great success, and this makes Collabora unique.

Collabora Online brings the advantages of the ISO standard Open Document Format (ODF) to the cloud, to provide seamless interoperability with a large number of productivity software.

For more information, please contact info@studiostorti.com or sales@collaboraoffice.com.

About Studio Storti:
Studio Storti, the most referenced provider of Open Source solutions for the Government and Public Administration sector, is the main Zimbra and Zextras Suite integrator in Italy. The sole Italian company within The Document Foundation’s Advisory Board and active member of the LibreOffice community, provides migrations and trainings through a highly skilled staff according to The Document Foundation’s guidelines.

About Collabora Productivity:
Collabora Productivity is the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, providing a range of products and consulting to enterprise and government. Powered by the largest team of certified LibreOffice engineers in the world, it is a leading contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and community. Collabora Office for Desktop and Collabora Online provide a business-hardened office suite with long-term, multi-platform support. Collabora Productivity is a division of Collabora, the global software consultancy dedicated to providing the benefits of Open Source to the commercial world, specialising in mobile, automotive and consumer electronics industries. For more information, visit www.collaboraoffice.com or follow @CollaboraOffice on Twitter.

united hoster selects Collabora Online to add Online Office functionality

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Cambridge, United Kingdom and Stuttgart, Germany – January 31, 2017 – Collabora Productivity, the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, has been selected by united hoster, a German hosting provider with an own data center, to deliver Office file rendering and editing functionality in their cloud storage offering.

The current cloud offering allows syncing and sharing of files, and with the addition of Collabora Online, customers will also be able to securely edit their office documents, directly from the browser, on any location. Collaborative editing and excellent file support are key features of Collabora Online, the commercially supported edition of LibreOffice Online.

Collabora is delighted to partner with united hoster” said Michael Meeks, General Manager at Collabora Productivity. “We are excited about united hoster’s focus on customer satisfaction, and look forward to integrate Collabora Online into their cloud service.

Collabora Online is the perfect addition to our current cloud services” said Alexander Pelz, CEO at united hoster. “We are impressed the collaborative editing features and speed of development. Collabora is doing an amazing job here.

For more information about this release, please contact info@united-hoster.de or sales@collaboraoffice.com.

About Collabora Productivity:
Collabora Productivity is the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, providing a range of products and consulting to enterprise and government. Powered by the largest team of certified LibreOffice engineers in the world, it is a leading contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and community. Collabora Office for Desktop and Collabora Online provide a business-hardened office suite with long-term, multi-platform support. Collabora Productivity is a division of Collabora, the global software consultancy dedicated to providing the benefits of Open Source to the commercial world, specialising in mobile, automotive and consumer electronics industries. For more information, visit www.collaboraoffice.com or follow @CollaboraOffice on Twitter.

About united hoster:
Everything began in 2003 with the aim of enriching the premium class in the “high-quality” market with the innovative solutions from united hoster GmbH. The business has quickly increased and united hoster was the first provider of Windows vServer in germany.

Since 2009, the focus has been on IT solutions from the cloud for professional use – individual, customized solutions. Since the use of Odin Service Automation Cloud Platform, the speed of delivery has been increased and the product portfolio has been continuously expanded. The high-availability data center is located in Frankfurt am Main, just a few hundred meters away from the world’s largest Internet hub (DE-CIX). In addition to the high technical standards, united hoster attach great importance to specialist personnel in all areas in order to offer a comfortable all-round service.

New Collabora partner Rono-IT to add Collabora Online to their list of Cloud Services

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Cambridge, United Kingdom – January 26, 2017 – Collabora Productivity, the developers behind LibreOffice Online, and Rono-IT, a Dutch IT services provider, announce a partnership that will create a new Cloud service in the product offering of Rono-IT: a powerful Online Office suite with Collabora Online.

Collabora Online will allow the customers of Rono-IT, SMBs, enterprises and organizations, to keep in full control of their own data, while increasing productivity. Collaborative editing, excellent support for all popular office file formats, Long Term Support, signed security updates and a SLA are key features of this commercially supported edition of LibreOffice in the Cloud.

We are looking forward to work together with Rono-IT” said Michael Meeks, General Manager at Collabora Productivity. “Rono-IT’s experience with Cloud solutions will be invaluable to enterprises and organizations that want to get their own Open Source office in the cloud with the production ready Collabora Online.

There have been many request from our clients for a powerful and secure Online Office suite, and now we can offer them one.” said Robert Nouwens, CEO at Rono-IT. “Collabora Online has excellent features that fulfill the needs of our clients, and it will attract new clients too.

For more information about this release, please contact info@rono-it.nl or sales@collaboraoffice.com.

About Collabora Productivity:
Collabora Productivity is the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, providing a range of products and consulting to enterprise and government. Powered by the largest team of certified LibreOffice engineers in the world, it is a leading contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and community. Collabora Office for Desktop and Collabora Online provide a business-hardened office suite with long-term, multi-platform support. Collabora Productivity is a division of Collabora, the global software consultancy dedicated to providing the benefits of Open Source to the commercial world, specialising in mobile, automotive and consumer electronics industries. For more information, visit www.collaboraoffice.com or follow @CollaboraOffice on Twitter.

About Rono-IT:
Rono-IT is a Dutch service provider, providing small business’ smart value added common online cloud solutions. We also install on premise solutions and plenty of internet connectivity like dsl, fiber, wireless. As a full service provider we can’t miss voip, and now with the solutions of Collabora we can provide customers with an affordable office solution.
With our 15 year experience and one of the early adopters of cloud solutions provided from our own hardware and datacenters we welcome the solution of Collabora to fulfill our completeness of our portofolio.