When the world pivots, keep your communication steady
Have we lost control over our communication?
The Big Tech clouds keep the entire world’s data in a choke hold, squeezing to increase profit and enabled by proprietary technology. All while nurturing the myth that there’s no alternative. In uncertain times like today, we should not give anybody that much power. It’s no longer optional to keep the tools we depend on the most in our own hands.
Governments and businesses are wondering: how can we make communication resilient to political shifts, price hikes, compliance challenges, and Big Tech monopolies dominating the software market? Three main concerns need to be answered.
Are you free from vendor lock-in?
If Microsoft decides to hike up its prices by tomorrow, it won’t lose its business. When all your data is trapped inside one cloud and made incompatible, switching is increasingly difficult and expensive. And it is so by design.
Is your privacy still in check?
Changes in the US administration may have a direct impact on technology policies and transatlantic privacy laws. With frameworks like the EU-US Data Privacy Framework being practically defunct, organizations in Europe and beyond face renewed uncertainty over whether their communications and personal data remain compliant or even protected. Digitally sovereign communication isn’t just a preference anymore, but is quickly becoming a legal and strategic necessity.
Is your infrastructure really under your control?
Shutting down access to the Big Tech clouds could cause major disruptions in any of the world’s economies. The existence of this opportunity is itself a threat.
With no other tool providing the convenience of all communication integrated in one suite — team chat, video calls, webinars, and training features — tools like Microsoft Teams have secured dominance on the market. But we can’t keep relying on solutions that take away our control.
Presenting Nextcloud Talk “Munich”
Organizations and users need a more reliable, privacy-first collaboration platform, now more than ever. The numbers speak for themselves: the demand for Nextcloud Talk has tripled in the past quarter, compared to the same period last year. Seeing this spike, we asked our users: what needs does Nextcloud Talk satisfy to warrant their choice?
The answers are: resilience, productivity features, and ease of use that provides a low barrier for migration. So, that is where we put our efforts for this release!
Today, we are presenting Nextcloud Talk “Munich”, the innovative, future-proof answer to Microsoft Teams that provides all the tools that a modern hybrid team needs, making them easy to use and integrate into any organization’s workflows.
We enable new telephony features with Nextcloud Talk Phone and introduce a dashboard to speed up your navigation, while your privacy is protected with Secure View support and Sensitive conversations. Navigating your conversations becomes easier with Meeting conversations and other user interface improvments. With new usability and integration features, we made Nextcloud Talk even easier for new users.
With Nextcloud Talk ‘Munich’, get ready for a new generation of online communication — where you’re in control.
The new standard for resilience
Communication is the backbone of every work or learning process — for many of us, chats and meetings make up the bulk of the workday. That’s why the resilience of an online communication platform is essential for every team.
You realize the vital nature of those tools when you face downtime or have to move and adapt your entire team to a new collaboration space. Just think of stress factors, like security breaches, performance load, and compliance challenges, that can affect your organization’s flow of information.
With Nextcloud Talk “Munich”, we help you stay in control at all times, ensuring a resilient and independent collaboration space.
- Host your tools where you want, be it on your own infrastructure or with a cloud provider you trust
- Enjoy a fully fully open source environment, with access to the entire code, full transparency on how your data is processed, and freedom to make any custom adjustments.
- Enjoy decentralized communication between servers with federation (just like how email works!)
- Run an air-gapped Nextcloud Talk for your most a sensitive, compliance-focused use cases
- Encrypt your data and calls at all times
And we added even more tools to enhance your privacy: Secure View and Sensitive conversations.
In control of what you share: Secure View
With Secure View, you can share documents in Nextcloud for viewing with download restriction and a watermark to prevent unauthorized copying. Now you can enable it for all external shares in Nextcloud Talk, so all the external participants in your public conversations view shared documents with privacy restrictions.
Sensitive conversations stay private on your screen
Do you need to share your screen without sharing any private communication from your chats? Or are you working in an open, public space, and you need to double down on your privacy settings? Nextcloud Talk now lets you keep your sensitive chats even more private. You can easily hide the last message from your chat list and conceal messengers or message content in notifications.
Productivity you are used to, and more
Nextcloud Talk gives you real control over your communication while staying resilient to privacy threats and the stress of the modern collaboration-heavy working style. And it also gives you all the features you are used to, enhanced by Nextcloud AI Assistant and numerous external integrations.
Nextcloud Talk covers the key ways hybrid teams communicate, such as quick team chats, meetings with clients and partners, webinars, and training sessions, in one integrated platform.
- Team chat: Collaborate every day across private and group conversations, share files in a snap, link documents and media, run polls, send voice messages, integrate bots and external services. With interactive widgets, collaborate on the documents in your chats, browse calendars and kanban boards from Nextcloud Deck, and more.
- Video meetings: Run quick voice and video calls with your team and external partners. Keep your calls healthy with mindfulness features, moderate crowded meetings for hundreds of people, set privacy settings. In the calls, share your screen, use team chat, send reactions, and more.
- Webinars and training: Nextcloud Talk is a perfect virtual classroom tool that supports interactive sessions with whiteboards, presenting features, role-based moderation, lobby, custom invitations, breakout rooms and polls.
Powered by Ethical AI
Use Nextcloud Assistant to summarize conversations and meetings, generate texts and images, and translate messages. You can choose from many available models assessed with our Ethical AI rating, host your AI where you prefer, or connect to an external service. We value your choices, so AI integration is entirely optional.
All conversation details in the redesigned sidebar
Now you know a bit more about the people you work with. In private conversations, along with shared files, tasks, chats, and other items, we added info about your coworkers: their role, location, and local time. You can also zoom in on their photo to see a full image instead of the thumbnail.
Expand private calls into group meetings
Sometimes you wish to include more people in the call you are already having with someone in a private conversation. And now you can add more people to your one-on-one calls: Nextcloud Talk will simply create a new conversation with the participants and move you there. Even while the call is in progress.
Virtual telephony with Nextcloud Talk Phone
We present Nextcloud Talk Phone, a feature that makes your entire business communication truly unified in one place by integrating telephony for each user. Currently, you can let users connect to your group calls via phone or call them from a conversation to invite them to a meeting. For this release, we level this feature up!
