Discover Collaba
Collaba is an integrated collaboration and communication server featuring e-mail, calendaring, forums, multimedia chat and whiteboard, blogs, wiki, files and documents, portfolio, bookmarks, RSS, podcasting, CAS 2.0 single-sign-on, and more.
Get your community
on-line and start using integrated collaboration and
communication tools that work seamlessly together. Thousands of features, but all built with ease of use in mind. First-time users discover a comprehensive, easy-to-use platform, while pro-users just love being able to use that same platform with everything else they work with.
Collaba News
December 1st 2008 - Collaba 7.3 Alpha
SYPECom is pleased to unveil the first public Alpha release of Collaba 7.3. Although the feature set is not yet finalized, some of the features committed to this release are: re-modeled platform architecture based on MVC, migration to Apache Tomcat (embedded or external), migration to the Apache Struts2 framework, beta version of the MySQL connector for Collaba, and much, much more! Alpha versions are available in the Early Access section of the Download Center. October 9th 2008 - Collaba 7.2 is out!
Collaba 7.2 is definitely an exciting release! Our team has cooked up many big new features and hundreds of enhancements, improvements and fixes. Among them are:
- full CAS 2.0 server built-in
- new Projects module
- customizable calendar week views
- To Do feature
- bookmarks import & export functions
- flexible control over access rights for web sites and sections
- support for over a thousand users logged onto a single server
- new high-performance server options
- and much, much more!
Customers can download 7.2 in the Download Center, and visitors can request a 7.2 trial server on the Demonstration page.
One product for all
Educational customers
Most communication and collaboration products on the educational market are enterprise products that have been modified by corporations in the hope to fit their view of educational needs.
Collaba however was created as an education-specific solution by a team whose two thirds were computer-literate teachers and pedagogical counselors. This makes Collaba a strong education-oriented platform that is not trying to fit into a world it isn't coming from, like most others.
In addition to students and teachers, educational customers have another category of users to consider: parents. Collaba provides two free limited-access parent accounts per regular user account, thus allowing you to welcome parents without additional costs.
Non-profit and small organizations
Collaba's new pricing list starts at only one user license per year, and increases on a quantity-discounting slide.
It is therefore very affordable for even the smallest organization, while still including every feature.
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| Enterprise customers
The true relevance of an enterprise-level platform lies in its ability to be cost-effective. In that area, Collaba surpasses other solutions by combining easy installation, easy learning, easy use and low licensing cost. While a few other solutions may claim to be cheaper (or even free) initially, their Total Cost of Ownership is usually much higher because of the level of technical expertise required to install and/or maintain the product. Collaba on the other hand requires only minimal technical knowledge for installation, and no technical expertise at all to learn and use.
Among all the features and technologies embedded into Collaba, many stand out in the corporate world: private/public-keypair-based strong encryption of e-mail, fully-encrypted SSL access (HTTPS, POP3-S, SMTPS), LDAP-driven user base, SMB/CIFS and SAN connectivity, server compatibility with all major operating systems, and more!
Very large sites
Collaba is also designed for large sites that serve hundreds of thousands of users or more. Special pricing is available.
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Expansion and support
We're with
you!
When you purchase a Collaba annual license, you get
a technical support package.
You'll be up and running in no time!
Got Java?
That's all you need to run your own Collaba server! Forget about installing complex database systems or huge web application servers. Collaba is lightweight and ready to use! Drop it on a Mac with MacOS X or a PC with Linux or Windows, and you're good to go!
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| Software integrators
Are you responsible for integrating Collaba seamlessly into your existing network of tools and services? Collaba features several technologies to help you do just that.
Collaba is a great player with other tools and services. It includes many SSO features that handle transparent authentication, so that your users are shielded from all authentication details.
Collaba's LDAP connectivity lets you deploy a feature-rich integrated communication and collaboration platform in no time, with no user account management. Everyone registered in your Microsoft Active Directory or any other LDAP directory will suddenly be able to connect to Collaba.
Java developers
Collaba includes many development APIs to extend its features and components. Get Collaba and start creating exciting new possibilities!
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Collaba 7.2 features
 Universal server |
- Install-anywhere Java 5.0 / 6.0 server
- Server runs on Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
- No other software required
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| E-Mail |
- Built-in e-mail server
- Access from the Web, POP3, POP3-SSL, SMTP, SMTP-SSL
- Strong encryption of sensitive e-mail
- Built-in anti-spam features and compatibility with anti-spam and anti-virus systems
- Address book with vCard import/export and WebDAV synchronization
- Disk quotas, mail rules, signatures, and more
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| Calendaring |
- Personal, group and resource calendars
- iCalendar import & export
- WebDAV synchronization
- Support for Mozilla Sunbird, Mozilla Thunderbird+Lightning, and many more
- Notifications, conflict detection, attachments
- Customizable time grid (ex: supports classroom periods)
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| Files & documents |
- Built-in Virtual File System
- Web, WebDAV, FTP and SMB/CIFS connectivity
- Anti-virus support, ClamAV-ready
- User-level scripting, Java plug-ins
- Powerful workflow systems
- Student-teacher assignments management
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| Blogs |
- Personal and group blogs
- Web, RSS, podcast
- Automatic archives, search tool, comments, tier-approval
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| Forums |
- Public and private forums
- Flexible access permissions
- Web, RSS, podcast, NNTP
- Notifications, off-site participants
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| Multimedia chat |
- Live text chat
- Live drawing
- Multimedia panel ready for third-party video-conferencing applications or other interactive software
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| Bookmarks |
- Category-oriented bookmarks organizer
- In-portal, same-window or new-window display
- Import & export of bookmarks
- Powerful built-in support for bookmarked sites requiring Single-Sign-On (SSO), including a developer API
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| Web publishing |
- Personal home pages
- Group home pages
- On-line web page editor
- Built-in multi-domain web server
- Flexible access rights
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| Digital portfolio |
- Personal presentation portfolio
- Customizable forms
- Pier review
- Concept designed and refined by teachers
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| News board |
- Group-specific dynamic news boards
- RSS publishing
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| On-line server management |
- Manage user accounts, groups, forums and other resources through Collaba's web interface
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| LDAP synchronization |
- Synchronize user accounts and groups with any LDAPv3-compliant directory server
- Supports Microsoft Active Directory (AD), OpenLDAP, Open Directory, and many more
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| Flexible user authentication |
- User authentication can be handled by Collaba, LDAP, CAS, JAAS, SMTP-Auth, POP3, and more
- Authentication API to add custom authentication methods
- Built-in full CAS 2.0 server
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| Visual portal interface |
- Modular XHTML+CSS interface
- Customizable interface
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Contextual help and on-line manual
- Expansion options with Single-Sign-On (SSO) capabilities
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| Developers |
- Collaba Service Expansion API (Java)
- Collaba Authentication API (Java)
- Collaba Client Engine (Java)
- Collaba Persistence API (Java)
- Collaba Anti-Virus Service API (Java)
- Collaba VFS source (VFSCL)
- Collaba VFS scripts (VFSSL)
- Collaba VFS script extensions (Java)
- Collaba Whiteboard Toolkits (bundle)
- Collaba Visual Interface Decoration API (XML)
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