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Kopano available for UCS 5
Monday, Aug 1, 2022

Kopano available for UCS 5

Kopano is now available from the Univention App Center for UCS 5. This clears the way for many existing UCS 4.4 servers to be upgraded to UCS 5.

Video conferencing on Univention: A Short Tour of Kopano Meet
Friday, Jan 17, 2020

Video conferencing on Univention: A Short Tour of Kopano Meet

Great news! The Meet video calling app is now available on Univention Corporate Server. In case you missed it: Meet is Kopano’s secure, open-source and easy-to-use solution for video conferencing. It is peer-to-peer and end-to-end encrypted. This means a conversation always takes place directly between the people in the call, with no other parties in between. Because Kopano developed Meet as a progressive web app, interaction with the app feels the same. No matter the device you are using.

Digital Collaboration with Kopano in Paderborn Schools
Friday, May 31, 2019

Digital Collaboration with Kopano in Paderborn Schools

The city of Paderborn, Germany is special. Not only because of its beautiful Romanesque Cathedral, but because of its school system. Why? Nearly 20 years ago, local political decision-makers decided to take an important step towards digital collaboration. In 2000, they started “Lernstatt Paderborn”, a pioneer project that digitally links all schools in Paderborn, from elementary to high-school level.

Kopano Releases Enterprise Video Calling App "Meet"
Thursday, Feb 21, 2019

Kopano Releases Enterprise Video Calling App "Meet"

Kopano has released Kopano Meet, Kopano’s new video meeting app that combines the benefits of open source with great usability.

Kopano is top messaging app on UCS
Thursday, Jan 31, 2019

Kopano is top messaging app on UCS

Univention has published their third party app popularity chart for December 2018 and Kopano is the top messaging app and in the number two position overall.

Case Study: Standardised E-Mail & Corporate Backup with Univention, Kopano & SEP
Monday, Dec 3, 2018

Case Study: Standardised E-Mail & Corporate Backup with Univention, Kopano & SEP

Learn in this case study how the company Backwelt Pilz consolidated its outdated, heterogeneous IT environment, which was characterized by disparate services and systems. In addition to introducing a standard e-mail system via Kopano, they virtualised on KVM and established a professional business backup with SEP sesam.

DeskApp 2.0, connect to get things done on the go
Friday, Nov 30, 2018

DeskApp 2.0, connect to get things done on the go

Apps are getting more important in workday organization – all the more reason for additional happiness around the release of Kopano DeskApp 2.0, a big milestone in the development of the flagship client for Kopano. Aside from usage of many more modern tools like chat and video meetings, the ‘traditional’ email and calendar tasks take up more than 5 hours a week of my digital work hours. Therefore it is so important to me that DeskApp is designed for the way I work with my colleagues and external …

3 Things To Consider Before Moving To The Public Cloud
Friday, Sep 21, 2018

3 Things To Consider Before Moving To The Public Cloud

Recently we were scared twice: Google reads our emails and with Microsoft Office365, users can be monitored. I was surprised that apparently there are companies that let people read e-mails instead of automatically browsing through content… but that’s beside the point here. More important is the recurring insight that whoever has data, uses it.

LibreOffice Online Packages by Kopano Available for Download
Thursday, Apr 19, 2018

LibreOffice Online Packages by Kopano Available for Download

New packages for LibreOffice Online are now available for public download.

Your Data, Not Your Terms
Thursday, Mar 1, 2018

Your Data, Not Your Terms

As we always say, whatever technology you decide to use, make sure you are in control of your data. In a great talk, Univention CEO Peter Ganten showed us not a future dystopia, or a vision, but reality as it is right now. A reality where not we, but the largest technology companies in this world have control over our most valuable asset: data.