From a wide variety of industries and backgrounds, our speakers will provide insightful talks on their experiences with Nextcloud. Read below to discover the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau and discover the unique use case Lars is bringing to the stage.

About the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN)

The Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN) is a member church of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) with around 1.2 million members and around 1,000 parishes. With around 19,000 full-time employees and 57,000 volunteers, the EKHN is also a large employer in the Hesse and Nassau region.

Lars’ topic: How EKHN uses Nextcloud as a centralized service

EKHN chose Nextcloud so they could have one place that enables everyone to use all of their distributed services. Nextcloud’s all-in-one platform combines file storage, sharing capabilities, office, calendar and so much more making it simple to collaborate and condense work flow.

Currently, around 10,000 users are on their Nextcloud instance working with Files and other apps efficiently.

In Lars’s upcoming talk at Nextcloud Enterprise Day, he will talk about how a heterogeneous organization can provide different services in one place that is both easy to access and use.

About Nextcloud Enterprise Day

Nextcloud Enterprise Day is our top event of the year for business leaders, decision-makers, and project managers to achieve their goals with Nextcloud.

From customer presentations and success stories to networking opportunities and access to management, sales, marketing, and engineering teams, you’re bound to walk away with new information, techniques, and inspiration.

The April 24th edition takes place at the fabulous Marriott hotel in Munich, Germany. Early Bird tickets are available until March 23rd.

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Nextcloud Enterprise Day is fast approaching and we have an impressive lineup of speakers on the agenda!

From various industries and backgrounds, our speakers are customers providing insightful talks on their experiences with Nextcloud.

One of those speakers is Felix Gebauer, Program Lead and Project Manager for the transition to Open-Source Software in the Schleswig-Holstein German state administration.

About Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost state in Germany. Part of the State Chancellery of Schleswig-Holstein is the Central IT-Management department. They are responsible for the provision and operation of the centralized IT infrastructure for the whole state administration. They’re made up of 25,000 employees – one including Felix Gebauer, the Program Lead and Project Manager for the transition to Open-Source Software. He is responsible for the successful implementation of Schleswig-Holstein’s open source strategy. It’s his job to introduce Nextcloud as the new key collaboration platform to the state administration and ensure its roll-out of Nextcloud.

How Nextcloud is integral to Schleswig-Holstein’s open source strategy

In Felix’s talk, he will introduce Schleswig-Holstein’s open-source strategy and get into how Nextcloud fits into this strategy. He will explain how the Schleswig-Holstein state administration introduced Nextcloud, what were and are the biggest challenges, and what we have planned as further developments for Nextcloud, focusing on introducing AI solutions.

«The main reasons for choosing Nextcloud were the wide distribution of Nextcloud especially in public administration, Nextcloud’s strong and active community, and the wide range of different collaboration features within Nextcloud which provide solutions for many use cases in Schleswig-Holstein’s state administration.»

Felix Gebauer, Program Lead and Project Manager for the transition to Open-Source Software in the Schleswig-Holstein

Building a digitally sovereign AI for the public sector

As part of the AI strategy of the German state, they are collaborating with Nextcloud to create a generative language model for the state administration that is adapted to the specifics of administrative texts. Minister of Digitization and Head of the State Chancellery Dirk Schrödter backs the collaboration in a statement:

«In the future, we will make AI services available to colleagues in the state administration directly at the workplace. We want to drive the development of digitally sovereign and open solutions in addition to the use of existing AI services. Because, the administration of the future will work in an automated, algortihmized, cloudified and data-based way. To make this vision of the future a reality, we must provide the appropriate tools. This also creates value and jobs in our domestic digital economy.»

Dirk Schrödter, Minister of Digitization and Head of the State Chancellery

About Nextcloud Enterprise Day

Nextcloud Enterprise Day is our top event of the year for business leaders, decision-makers, and project managers to achieve their goals with Nextcloud.

From customer presentations and success stories to networking opportunities and access to management, sales, marketing, and engineering teams, you’re bound to walk away with new information, techniques, and inspiration.

April 24th edition takes place at the fabulous Marriott in Munich, Germany. Early Bird tickets are available until March 23rd.

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We’re thrilled to reveal T-Systems, part of Deutsche Telekom and a prominent global IT service provider, as a sponsor of Nextcloud Enterprise Day. Join us on April 24, 2024, in Munich, Germany, for this pivotal event.

T-Systems is one of the bigger Nextcloud clients; they’re diligently working on their content migration services, which involves transforming and transporting substantial volumes of structured and unstructured data across various platforms, seamlessly integrating them into the Nextcloud Hub.

About T-Systems

T-Systems, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary, is a respected name in the global ICT landscape. Operating in over 20 countries, their diverse portfolio encompasses digital solutions, cloud infrastructure, mobility solutions, and cybersecurity. T-Systems aids businesses worldwide in harnessing the power of their Nextcloud servers within secure, certified data centers. T-Systems and Nextcloud are staunch advocates of data sovereignty, firmly believing organizations should regain control over their data.

About Nextcloud Enterprise Day

Nextcloud Enterprise Day 2024 boasts a wide-ranging array of topics, covering the spectrum of enterprise applications. Our seasoned industry experts, technology partners (including T-Systems representatives), and dedicated in-house engineers will be on hand to address queries and share insightful perspectives.

The event is a great opportunity to influence the Nextcloud roadmap and gain a deeper understanding of Nextcloud Hub as the quintessential suite for self-hosted collaboration.

Join us in envisioning the future of digital collaboration and data sovereignty. Let’s meet in Munich!

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Building on shared values

Nextcloud builds digitally sovereign, privacy respecting collaboration software in an open, transparent way. XWiki SAS follows the same model, aiming to create software that matters and makes a difference. Both XWiki SAS and Nextcloud advocate for the empowerment of individuals and organizations to reclaim their digital sovereignty through collaborative, transparent, and fully open-source platforms.

A recent conversation between Frank and Ludovic culminated in December 2023 with a modest investment by Frank in XWiki SAS, symbolizing a deepening of our business relationship. This fits with the trend of the growing relation between XWiki SAS and Nextcloud on some customer projects, in several formal alliances, but also in the political space with both organizations pushing together for an open and free European market. A good example here is XWiki’s support for Nextcloud’s antitrust complaint about Microsoft to the European Union.

What this means for the Nextcloud community

The XWiki and Nextcloud software are both rooted in community-driven open-source development and are committed to maintaining free, independent, and organically grown communities and products. Rejecting venture capital backing, we both prioritize long-term sustainability and community-building over short-term gains.

In alliance with Nextcloud, we share a common ethos centered on privacy and data control and we plan on working even closer together in the following years. This small investment is on one hand a sign of growing trust and partnership, and on another hand marks for us a significant step towards realizing our shared vision of digitally sovereign collaborative solutions in Europe. At the same time, both companies will continue to work independently as they did until now.

— Ludovic Dubost, Founder and CEO of XWiki SAS and CryptPad_

XWiki has been maturing for many years into the robust and versatile knowledge management platform that it is today. We have been cooperating in various areas for some time now, and I am glad that I am able to formalize our ties a little further with this investment.

— Frank Karlitschek, Founder and CEO of Nextcloud_

What’s next?

We believe there is a bright future for digitally sovereign collaboration solutions in Europe and this is a step forward in bringing two leading projects in this space closer together. Join us on the road towards a more digitally sovereign future by following XWiki SAS on Mastodon, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, or through their newsletter or read their blog about our collaboration. Meanwhile, you ca find Nextcloud on Mastodon, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram, or follow our newsletter.

About XWiki SAS and Nextcloud

XWiki SAS is the top sponsoring company for the XWiki and CryptPad open-source projects, and we also offer services on top of these two products.

XWiki is an open-source wiki platform that offers extensive customization features, collaborative editing, document and files management, integration capabilities, and granular rights management. It is a flexible and scalable solution, with features for creating, organizing, searching, and sharing knowledge within teams and organizations, on-premises or in cloud.

CryptPad is an open-source online collaboration suite that provides secure and privacy-focused tools for document editing, real-time collaboration, and communication. CryptPad enables users to use and share rich text, spreadsheets, polls, presentations, whiteboard functions, forms, kanban, diagrams, and code/markdown without compromising the confidentiality of their data.

Nextcloud Hub is the leading open source, on-premises content collaboration platform with a strong focus on data protection. It offers document sharing, real-time editing, video conferencing, calendaring, mail and more across mobile, web and desktop interfaces.

Frank Karlitschek is a long time open-source contributor and privacy activist. He is former board member of the KDE e.V. and has initiated several initiatives over the years to make the internet more secure and more federated like the open collaboration services and the user data manifesto. He is founder and CEO of Nextcloud.

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Through existing framework agreements, all federal authorities, numerous state administrations and many other public institutions can obtain the digitally sovereign collaboration platform as an immediately usable SaaS service or as an on-premise service. See the full press release (in German).

Today, we also announce that Bechtle supports the Nextcloud Enterprise day, taking place April 24 in Munich. We invite you to join the conversation with the forward thinkers of the global IT. Save April 24 in your calendar and register today to secure your seat! Learn more in the sponsorship announcement.

The digitally sovereign collaboration solution from Bechtle and Nextcloud can be hosted either in a German data center owned by Bechtle, the ITZ Bund or another cloud provider. The functionality can be adapted to individual needs and ranges from file synchronization and data sharing to the use of chat, video conferences, office applications, email, calendar and contacts to innovative AI functions and support for smartphones and tablets. With a high degree of flexibility and scalability from 50 to millions of users, the digitally sovereign collaboration platform is suitable for both public institutions and companies of all sizes. The open source nature of Nextcloud provides complete transparency and improves security.

Nextcloud’s solutions are already being used successfully by many customers in the public sector. The joint offer guarantees the highest standards of security and data protection based on open source technology.

Manuel Liesenfeld, Head of Public Sector Division, Bechtle AG.

Seamless migrations from existing systems to the digitally sovereign collaboration platform are possible. Nextcloud also supports the Open Collaboration Services Standard (OCS), which specialist process manufacturers can use to integrate into the service. Important certifications such as BITV for accessibility are also available.

I am pleased that there is finally a German-European solution that is easy to use and obtain, but is 100 percent digitally sovereign and based on locally operated open source software.

Frank Karlitschek, Managing Director of Nextcloud GmbH.

Authorities in France and Sweden as well as the European Commission already use Nextcloud communication and collaboration solutions. In Germany, the federal government and numerous state administrations are among the users. Bechtle and Nextcloud are already working together successfully on German administration projects, such as the federal government’s social intranet and the Bundeswehr’s information technology school.

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We are excited to announce Bechtle as one of the Nextcloud Enterprise Day sponsors!

Bechtle is close to its customers and is one of the leading IT companies in Europe with IT e-commerce companies in 14 countries. Bechtle also has a global network of partners to meet the needs of global customers. Bechtle support our more than 70,000 customers from industry and trade, the public sector and the financial market in their digital transformation and offer a complete range of IT infrastructure and IT operations services across manufacturers.

Bechtle is strongly committed to enhancing digital sovereignty, speciality in the public market. They championing open-source solutions and strategically operate services within European data centers to ensure the highest standards of data protection. Active engagement in the public sector, marked by successful collaborations with federal and state authorities, showcases Bechtle’s understanding and capability to meet the unique IT requirements essential for governmental operations.

This collaboration underlines the strength of the partnership between Nextcloud and Bechtle. Both entities strive to deliver secure, compliant, and effective IT solutions across various sectors.

As a next milestone of our ambitions partnership, Bechtle and Nextcloud are launching a managed digitally sovereign platform based on Nextcloud. This means that all features of Nextcloud Hub can now be offered to public organizations as a managed cloud service, easy to implement and without tendering.

We invite you to join the conversation with the forward thinkers of the global IT. Save April 24 in your calendar and register today to secure your seat!

About Bechtle

Bechtle is a renowned German provider of IT services and solutions founded in 1983. It has since grown to become one of the largest IT service providers in Europe. The company serves a diverse base of customers businesses, government offices, and educational institutions. Bechtle’s portfolio of services includes IT consulting, software and hardware procurement, system integration, and managed services.

Bechtle is a leading ambassador for digital sovereignty. For many years, the company has been promoting technological independence as an fundamental part of the digitalization strategy. Bechtle have supported multiple organizations on their path towards digital sovereignty with a vendor-neutral portfolio of solutions and consulting services, as well as a European cybersecurity stack.

Bechtle is a company with an impressive history and a prominent position on the European and global IT landscape. We are fascinated to welcome Bechtle as an Enterprise Day supporter.

About Nextcloud Enterprise Day

Nextcloud Enterprise Day brings together the leaders and decision makers in the enterprise IT landscape. For one day, it provides a platform to foster innovation, exchange experience, and present unique cases of Nextcloud implementation.

The agenda encompasses exclusive talks and workshops. Topics include digital sovereignty, the future of AI in business, building a secure and resilient cloud infrastructure, and more. A highlight of the upcoming event is a presentation of the next big Nextcloud Hub update.

The April 2024 edition comes to Munich. It is a city in the heart of Bavaria famous for it’s unique mix of urban ambition, modernity and historical legacy.

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Welcome the first sponsor of Nextcloud Enterprise Day 2024 — OVHcloud. By becoming a supporter of the Enterprise Day, OVHcloud reinforces its position as a provider that values privacy, security, and open-source standards, offering solutions that empower organizations to maintain control over their data while leveraging the benefits of cloud technology.

The 2024 edition of Enterprise Day takes place on April 24 in Munich, Germany. Register today at a limited special rate.

About OVHcloud

OVHcloud, a global cloud provider, offers scalable and flexible web hosting, server, private and public cloud solutions for businesses, developers, and individuals. With a commitment to data autonomy and transparency, OVHcloud enables efficient IT infrastructure management while advocating for privacy and innovation.

OVHcloud’s dedication to digital sovereignty reflects in their approach to data protection and privacy. They ensure that the infrastructure and services comply with local and international data regulations, which is crucial for clients concerned with data jurisdiction and sovereignty, especially in sectors like public services and healthcare.

We are honored to have OVHcloud as a returning sponsor of the Nextcloud Enterprise Day.

About Nextcloud Enterprise Day

Nextcloud Enterprise Day brings together the leaders and decision makers in the enterprise IT landscape. For one day, it provides a platform to foster innovation, exchange experience, and present unique stories behind Nextcloud implementation in various industries.

The agenda encompasses exclusive talks and workshops. Topics include digital sovereignty, the future of AI in business, building a secure and resilient cloud infrastructure, and more.

The April 2024 edition comes to Munich, a city in the heart of Bavaria famous for it’s unique mix of urban ambition, modernity and historical legacy.

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In order to provide a strong enterprise user experience, Nextcloud offers theming and branding capabilities for both servers and clients. The theming and branding can be distributed using our deployment options for both desktop and mobile platforms.

Integrated theming

Our integrated theming app offers a quick and user-friendly method to customize your Nextcloud server’s appearance. It allows you to configure your organization’s logo, color palette, name and key URLs, including your privacy policy and imprint.

Additionally, the Nextcloud mobile apps are designed to automatically sync with your server’s theme. This means they adopt the server’s color scheme and display your customized logo and background, ensuring a consistent and branded user experience across all platforms.

• Logo, colors, login graphics and name
• Add custom links for privacy policy, imprint and terms of service
• Default / example files every user gets on first login can be modified
• Mobile apps and web interface adjust to theme settings (except app icon on mobile)

Enterprise branding

Nextcloud Hub offers branding capabilities for through its Nextcloud Enterprise subscription. These branding options provide a more corporate experience for your users. This option features clients that are tailor-made for your organization, with pre-configured server settings. This means end-users can bypass the server selection step and directly enter their login details, streamlining their access process and enhancing overall user efficiency.

Our branded clients will showcase your organization’s identity, featuring your logo and name in the app drawer, replacing the standard Nextcloud branding. This personalized approach extends beyond aesthetics, as further customizations are available to align with your specific brand ethos.

Additionally, Nextcloud facilitates an integration into your digital ecosystem by offering the apps as APK files for Android and Xcode projects for iOS. This allows for direct publishing through your organization’s developer account, ensuring a streamlined deployment process

• Pre-configured server address for faster setup
• Removal of links to Nextcloud community, community hosting solutions and private servers
• Custom logo and name in app drawer
• Custom help page and contact email
• Optional custom Push Proxy
• Full control over release management and app store entry
• Support for MDM solutions for mobile (Premium)
• MSI deployment for desktop (Premium)

Theming versus Branding

In Nextcloud, theming and branding are distinct yet complementary features that enhance user experience and your corporate identity. While often used interchangeably, they serve unique functions.

Theming

Nextcloud Hub’s built-in theming app is the recommended approach for customizing the look and feel of your server’s interface. This app ensures compatibility with Web User Interface changes and allows for easy customizations. You can adjust visual elements like the logo, color scheme, organization’s name, and essential URLs such as privacy policies and imprints. The Web User Interface also allows tailoring the color and logos in various emails sent by Nextcloud (e.g., share information, activities, welcome emails).

Theming is all about giving a personalized touch to your Nextcloud server, aligning it visually with your organization’s aesthetic and ensuring a cohesive brand experience across all user touchpoints.

Branding

Going a step further, Nextcloud’s branding capabilities offer a deeper level of customization. Branding involves incorporating custom visual assets like logos and icons into the client interface, creating a custom help page, and implementing pre-configured settings for seamless integration within your organization. This ensures that when users access Nextcloud, they are immediately met with an interface that reflects your organization’s identity, bypassing the need to select a server and entering login credentials directly.

Branded clients replace the standard Nextcloud logo and name in the app drawer with your organization’s branding, offering a more tailored experience.

Overall, branding in Nextcloud extends beyond the visual appeal, providing an experience that feels like an integral part of your organization. It supports a wide range of platforms including Android, iOS and desktop environments like Linux, Mac and Windows.

Available as part of our Standard and Premium subscriptions, branding elevates the user experience to a level where Nextcloud Hub not only functions but also feels like an extension of your organization’s corporate style.

Deployment and device management

Nextcloud simplifies the deployment process for desktop and mobile platforms, offering robust solutions tailored to organizational needs.

For desktops, we utilize the Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI), providing branded desktop client packages that facilitate deployment across large-scale environments.

Nextcloud extends its capabilities to mobile platforms through comprehensive Mobile Device Management (MDM) support. This enables management and deployment of mobile applications.

All these deployment technologies are available through our subscription plans. This ensures that organizations of all sizes have access to the tools they need for efficient deployment and management of Nextcloud branding services.

Overview of Nextcloud branding features

Clients

Web user interface

This article has been updated and expanded to provide more information on how to migrate from ownCloud to Nextcloud.

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This April, Nextcloud Enterprise Day returns to Munich! We once again bring together industry professionals and key players in the field of IT to foster networking, share knowledge, showcase use cases, and discuss the latest advancements in technology around Nextcloud.

Following the success of the previous edition, we are aiming to enrich the agenda with new exciting topics around Nextcloud development and implementation, and dive deeper into the Nextcloud stories — brought by organizations across various sectors of economy. Tickets are available for booking starting with an exclusive Super Early Bird rate.

Why join Enterprise Day

Nextcloud Enteprise Day is not just another networking meetup — it is a means to learn from the successful setups, exchange your experience, and have a chat with the minds behind our collaboration platform along likeminded industry professionals.

The Enterprise day experience includes:

• Exclusive roadmap insights and the presentation of the upcoming major update — Nextcloud Hub 8.
• A deep dive into the newest features and enhancements to supercharge your instance.
• AI in Nextcloud: in-demand developments and the latest features to augment your platform
• Real-life case studies presented by the very users of Nextcloud across industries and business formats.
• Exploring the strategies to optimize your platform for peak performance at the table with Nextcloud senior management.
• Cozy networking with peers, industry leaders, and experts to expand your circle and foster collaborations.
• Exclusive Q&A and meetup with Nextcloud’s leadership.

Welcome to Munich

The event will be held at the spectacular Marriott München hotel, in the heart of Bavaria – Munich. Germany’s third-largest metropolis, it is one of the Europe’s true gems that blends tradition and modernity and offers vibrant cultural scene.

Program highlights

Nextcloud Enterprise day will take on Wednesday, April 24 2024. The main program stretches from 8:00 until 17:00 CET with regular refreshment breaks and continues into the informal get-together for the evening. The rough schedule below is going to be updated live on the Enterprise Day page.

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The Nextcloud Exchange Connector offers a powerful solution that seamlessly integrates Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft 365 with Nextcloud, boosting cross-platform connectivity. Discover how this connector simplifies collaboration and empowers teams to work together with greater efficiency.

Why integrate Exchange with Nextcloud

How can the Exchange connector enhance collaboration?

Automated contact sync

Sync personal agendas and contacts bidirectionally with open standards like CardDav and CalDav. No need for manual copying and pasting: the connector seamlessly syncs Outlook and Nextcloud Hub, while contact files are shared directly between Nextcloud Hub and Outlook.

Convenient meeting planning

Create meetings in Outlook and see them instantly reflected in your Nextcloud calendar, and vice versa. Experience a seamless journey: sync meetings with the Exchange Connector, then join them instantly with Talk, all within Nextcloud.

A privacy-first alternative to the Office experience

When you integrate Nextcloud Hub with Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft 365, you leverage all advantages of Nextcloud while using familiar Microsoft tools and workflows:

• Integrated, all-in-one collaboration platform
• Unlimited storage and any number and type of user directories
• GDPR-certified, on-premises solution that puts you in control
• Modular, highly customizable bundle with open API
• Hundreds of ready apps for your ecosystem

Experience the Nextcloud Exchange connector

Nextcloud Exchange Connector is part of the Ultimate package of Nextcloud Enterprise. Contact Nextcloud sales team to learn more and request a free trial.

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