You’ll be hard-pressed to find someone who hasn’t used Google Docs or Google Drive. Files need to be able to be shared among colleagues, and the collaborative document editing features have changed the face of remote collaboration forever.

On the other hand, we have to remember what Google is at it’s core: the largest and most powerful propaganda machine the world has ever seen. It has shown time and again its willingness to work hand-in-hand (or hand-in-glove) with violent, repressive governments. It has shown itself to be an irresponsible steward of the services it provides, discontinuing them at a whim and leaving users who depended on them in the lurch.

But how could any organization in the ’20s work without Google?

Using Nextcloud, we can build a comprehensive collaboration suite for your organization that allows you to own your data. It starts with a Google Drive alternative: upload and share your files both internally and publicly, with a nice, simple interface. Then, we add on a collaborative document-editing suite that opens when you create or open a document, spreadsheet, or presentation. It also comes with shared calendars, meeting scheduling assistance, contact management, a knowledge base, mind map editor, and more!

As with all of our services, with our managed Nextcloud offering you have the option of physically possessing your data, or to scale horizontally with us for additional resiliency. As always, we share with you our infrastructure configuration and backup copies of your data so that you can migrate to other infrastructure at any time, should you desire.