Submitted Release of the Nextcloud Hub 21 platform, which provides a self-contained solution for organizing collaboration between enterprise employees and teams developing various projects. At the same time published Nextcloud 21, the underlying cloud platform Nextcloud Hub, which allows you to deploy cloud storage with synchronization support and data exchange, providing the ability to view and edit data from any device anywhere in the network (using the web interface or WebDAV). The Nextcloud server can be deployed on any hosting that supports PHP scripts and provides access to SQLite, MariaDB / MySQL, or PostgreSQL. The Nextcloud source code is distributed under the AGPL license.
In terms of tasks, Nextcloud Hub resembles Google Docs and Microsoft 365, but allows to deploy completely a controlled collaboration infrastructure that runs on its own servers and is not tied to external cloud services. Nextcloud Hub brings together several open source add-on applications over the Nextcloud cloud platform into a single environment, allowing you to collaborate on office documents, files and information for scheduling tasks and activities. The platform also includes add-ons for email, messaging, video conferencing and chat.
User authentication can be performed both on a local basis and through integration with LDAP / Active Directory, Kerberos, IMAP and Shibboleth / SAML 2.0, including using two-factor authentication, SSO (Single-sign-on) and linking new systems to an account using a QR code. Version control allows you to track changes to files, comments, sharing rules, and tags.
The main components of the Nextcloud Hub platform:
- Files – organizing storage, synchronization, sharing and exchange of files. Access can be done both via the Web and with client software for desktop and mobile systems. Provides advanced features such as full-text search, file attachments when submitting comments, selective access control, creating password protected download links, integration with external storages (FTP, CIFS / SMB, SharePoint, NFS, Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.).
- Flow – optimizes business processes by automating common work, such as converting documents to PDF, sending messages to chats when new ones are loaded files to specific directories, automatic tagging. It is possible to create your own handlers that perform actions in relation to specific events.