Overview of the Russian office package open source OnlyOffice in InfoboxCloud
OnlyOffice is more than just an office suite in the browser. This is a multifunctional collaboration portal that includes document and project management. It allows you to plan work tasks and milestones, store and collaborate on corporate or personal documents, use social networking tools such as blogs and forums, and also communicate with team members through a corporate instant messaging program.
OnlyOffice is designed for small and medium-sized companies that are looking for an effective platform for managing business processes.
Package includes:
document management
online document editors supporting Word, Excel and Powerpoint formats
project management
gantt chart
CRM
mail aggregator
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OnlyOffice is developed in Russia by CJSC New Communication Technologies (100% Russian company), all development and all management is located in Russia, in the city of Nizhny Novgorod. The company has a Latvian subsidiary Ascensio System SIA for sales in Europe and the USA. As part of the import substitution program, the product took the 1st place in the direction of "Office software".
Another good news is that the package has open source, and you can modify and modify the project if necessary.
OnlyOffice developers have SaaS solution, but it is hosted in foreign data centers. You can comply with the requirement to place personal data in Russia using the Moscow region of the InfoboxCloud cloud. In our solution, data will not be lost due to triple replication and backup of all user data.
The basic version of the package is free , including for corporate users. An Enterprise version will soon appear in which the following features will appear:
version control
reviewing
mail merge
desktop applications
At the same time, all existing functions of the free version will remain free.
In general, this solution will be as economical as possible, which is very important for a small business.
In this article, you can familiarize yourself with the capabilities of OnlyOffice and simply install the corporate portal into the InfoboxCloud cloud. If you have any questions, we will be happy to help .
Opportunities
Edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations online
Document management
Collaboration Coordination
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Project Coordination with Gantt Chart
Project management online
user management
Setting access rights
Install OnlyOffice
Creating a cloud server
If you do not have access to InfoboxCloud yet, get it by clicking on the button “Order now”. After the registration is completed, you will receive data for access to the control panel to your email. To comply with the requirement of the need to store personal data in Russia, select the data center in Moscow when registering.
The configuration recommended by results of testing:
Specify the required amount of resources, 1 external IP-address and the maximum speed of the network. Check the box “Allow control of the OS kernel” and click “Next”.
In the list of available operating systems, select CentOS 7 and complete the creation of the server.
By e-mail you will receive data for access to the server. Connect to it via SSH .
Quick install
We have prepared a quick installation script specifically for InfoboxCloud users, taking into account the features of the product configuration and simplifying deployment.
After installation, restart the server with the command
reboot
After the server has loaded, enter the server’s IP address or domain name in the browser (if DNS has already been updated). The system will initialize:
where domain.tld is the name of the domain you want to use for OnlyOffice. If during the operation of the package you need to change the domain - just run the update script and specify a new domain. The data will not be damaged, since stored separately from application containers.
Getting Started
To get started, ask:
admin password;
e-mail address to which system notifications will be sent;
Timezone;
system language.
After that click “Save”.
The OnlyOffice portal is ready to go!
Account activation
To complete the work, the administrator account must be activated. Without activation, you will see a warning when you go to any OnlyOffice section:
Check your email (including spam). You will see a letter from OnlyOffice. Activate your account by the link in the letter.
To prevent emails from entering spam, specify the SMTP server settings in OnlyOffice settings. You can also configure the built-in mail server in OnlyOffice, register the required parameters in DNS, but we recommend using business class mail for correspondence within the company.