What is Nextcloud?
Nextcloud is a collaborative office suite, file storage, and communication platform.
Nextcloud is a deep yet user-friendly platform that facilitates content collaboration, file storage, and communication. Nextcloud not only provides a full suite of collaborative office groupware, but has the ability to incorporate hundreds of other Nextcloud apps as well.
Ideal for a team environment, Nextcloud allows users and apps to complement the strengths of other users and apps while working together within one platform . All this combined with an intentional focus on privacy make Nextcloud “just the thing we’re looking for” for many organizations.
Why Choose Nextcloud?
1) Cost-effective. Deep. High functional.
Whether you are running a business, heading up IT services for a university or government, or trying to be prudent with donations at a church or nonprofit, it’s likely that no one has to convince you that providing capable, high quality software is too expensive.
Nextcloud is a reasonably priced alternative whose single interface contains the powerful tools to help your teams thrive. Chat, voice, videoconferencing, collaborative editing and file sharing, a calendar that makes it easy to sync and schedule, and much more–all with the ability to self-host. Why pay Big Tech fees for several apps when your needs can be covered in one place by Nextcloud? Coupled with Federated’s much-loved engineering and support, using Nextcloud lets you keep more of your time and money.
2) Privacy.
Your data may not be interested in data harvesters, but data harvesters are interested in your data. Nextcloud provides a pleasant alternative, they do not use their product for data harvesting or training AI. Nextcloud as an organization has privacy as a focus. In fact, with the ability to add your own external storage built right in, you can see that Nextcloud was developed with privacy in mind.
Within Nextcloud, ease of collaboration is balanced by each user’s ability to customize permissions and security controls as desired. Apply controls at the individual, team, group, or organization level. You decide.
If you want to own your data and not just “own” it, Nextcloud might be the right choice for you.
#) Flexibility and Scalability.
Users from individuals and small groups to universities and governments use Nextcloud, and its scalability is one of the reasons it’s such a popular platform. There’s no limit on users, so Nextcloud grows with your organization as much or as little as you desire. Add as much or as little storage as you like. Store on your own device or in the cloud. You decide.
Likewise, Nextcloud’s flexibility contributes to its popularity as a platform. Nextcloud’s collaborative features can connect people in the same room or on different continents. Users may run a student group, a business, a monastery, a university, or a city. A unique situation requires a unique solution. Fortunately, Nextcloud’s many apps and configurations allow features, access, and storage to be customized—and Nextcloud users have the peace of mind of being able to customize even more if desired.
4) Simplicity: The Apps You Need with One Intuitive Interface.
With Nextcloud, not only do you not need to pay more for several apps, Stop spending your day hunting for the right tab, opening and closing multiple apps, or even trying to find the app at all. Nextcloud’s customizable toolbar makes getting where you’re going a breeze and is always at the top of your window.
Many of Nextcloud’s apps retain the familiar format of competing applications. A logical layout and intuitive controls make Nextcloud easy to use for employees with varying levels of technical aptitude.