Is it time to bring all of your online apps together in one digital workspace to work more productively?

With teams using various ways of sharing files, chatting, and managing projects, the security risks and productivity costs are a great motivation to consolidate. Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace are popular solutions, but Nextcloud Hub is typically chosen when autonomy, control, and compliance are important.

How does Nextcloud Hub compare to continuing to use a fragmented set of tools or rolling out a bundle of different tools, as some vendors offer? Here are the four main reasons to go for an integrated platform for collaboration.

1. Productivity: Can your team members work efficiently?

Two numbers illustrate the difference between Nextcloud Hub and a loose bundling of apps:

• 9,5 minutes. Studies show this is how much time employees lose each time they switch between apps.
• Nearly 1 hour. That is how long the average employee spends searching for the latest version of a file or other information hidden in a different app.

This should not be surprising. The fragmentation and silos that separate applications create are a frustrating barrier, harming employee retention and adoption of new technologies. Yet in Nextcloud Hub, team members will always collaborate on a single document, even when accessing it from different contexts like a chat, project task, calendar invite, or share link.

Our customers have consistently found that, especially when migrating from an integrated platform like Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, it is unrealistic to force users into the poor user experience that comes with a fragmented toolset. In contrast, it has been shown countless times that moving to Nextcloud Hub improves user satisfaction and reduces migration friction.

2. Scalability & costs: Can your solution grow with your business’s needs?

Ease of migration and scaling

It is easy to see why administering a suite of eight applications is more complex than one or two, especially when the technology stacks are entirely different. And modern container technologies don’t magically resolve scalability challenges in the real world.

These challenges start at roll-out, where a single platform like Nextcloud Hub is far easier to test and reduces the chance of problems during introduction in the workplace. And while rolling out 100.000 Nextcloud Hub seats is a routine operation for our team, scaling the complex interactions of a dozen applications is the kind of challenge best avoided.

Environmental and financial costs

A complicated stack also multiplies the cost and duration of downtime. With Nextcloud Hub, fewer products are involved, meaning it is easier to pin down the cause of issues, and there is no blame game between vendors, slowing down the resolution time.

These costs not only show in fragility and downtime, but also in performance and resource usage. The multitude of back-end technologies and scaling methods of a typical collaboration bundle easily explode resource usage 4-5 times over that of Nextcloud Hub. For environmentally and cost-sensitive organisations, this is simply not an option.

3. Safety & compliance: Can you easily keep your online workspace secure?

Complexity is also an enemy of security. Every application expands the attack surface of an organization, and the interactions between a large number of applications on a network are hard to monitor, obscuring malicious traffic.

Compliance similarly benefits from having fewer products to certify and monitor. Especially the long term task of Third Party Risk Management is greatly simplified when selecting Nextcloud Hub. All of Nextcloud is 100% open source and AGPL, while application bundles typically feature various open core components and other licensing issues.

Backed by shared ownership

Unlike most other solutions on the market, Nextcloud Hub is developed under a proven shared-ownership model with a majority of code contributors coming from a wide range of customers, partners, the public sector, and private actors.

Compliance in Nextcloud

Nextcloud Enterprise platform simplifies dealing with the complex requirements of privacy regulations, decreasing business risk and costs.

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4. Maturity: Does your solution have a proven track record?

Perhaps not a technical reason, yet a reality: Nextcloud Hub is, by far, the most deployed sovereign digital workplace. It is proven in production use at nearly 500 public sector organizations at municipal, state, national, and European level with many installations providing hundreds of thousands or even millions of seats. There is massive momentum, for example, in France and the Netherlands.

Similarly, in the educational sector, thousands of schools, universities, and research institutes rely on Nextcloud to enable their teachers, students, and administrative staff to collaborate, reaching tens of millions of students across the world.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of banks, hospitals, and companies of all sizes benefit from the autonomy and control Nextcloud Hub provides, either by hosting in their own private cloud or using an offering from one of Nextcloud’s hosting partners. Some of our partners help a few thousand local businesses run Nextcloud, others offer tens of millions of private users a place to safely store their memories.

From scattered apps to a consolidated solution: Nextcloud Hub

The reality is that in a world where users are more and more used to the integrated collaboration platforms from Microsoft and Google, a loose bundling of separate tools is not a serious long-term solution.

And it shows.

Every month, hundreds of thousands experience Nextcloud Hub for the first time, with a stream of enterprise deployments that regularly exceed the entire installed base of any other individual or bundle of sovereign collaboration apps.

This is the simple consequence of Nextcloud Hub being the easiest way for an organization to regain sovereignty over its digital workplace!

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BrewMemo, a privacy-focused note-taking app with Nextcloud synchronization

Digital notes are as much a part of our everyday lives as emails or meetings. Yet many note-taking apps rely on unsecured data processing. BrewMemo takes a different approach: the app combines a clean, minimalist structure with true data sovereignty. And with Nextcloud integration, it also offers a secure sync!

Privacy and security combined:

• BrewMemo was developed to give users full control over their data. You will notice that there are no tracking links and no hidden processes. The result is an app that takes privacy seriously.
• The combination of strong encryption, ease of use, and the ability to synchronize content via your own Nextcloud makes BrewMemo especially attractive.

BrewMemo integration in Nextcloud Hub: how it works

BrewMemo synchronizes your notes with Nextcloud storage without any third-party services, so your markdown notes and files always remain in your hands. You can be certain that your data stays private and protected with transparent integration.

What can BrewMemo do?

• Powerful Markdown editor for clear, structured notes
• Effortless pinning and tagging
• Multiple themes, including dark mode for your personalized notebook
• Export as PDF & TXT for full control over your Markdown notes
• Fast, intelligent search: Instant access to any note
• Flexible workflow: Write offline, sync online
• Available on iOS, Android and via Nextcloud web app

Security & compliance for business

BrewMemo is developed by privacy experts based in Germany and is fully GDPR and BDSG compliant. If you are looking for a private cloud, sovereign alternative to Microsoft OneNote, Evernote, or Notion, it can become your team’s new reliable digital notebook.

Regain control over your data with Nextcloud Hub

Nextcloud Hub is a fully open source, privacy-first modular collaboration platform that combines all tools a modern team needs: file storage and sharing, document collaboration, chat and meeting tools, tasks and knowledge management, and lots more.

Deeply integrated, it does not lock you in: feel free to customize your Nextcloud, build and integrate your own apps, and run it wherever you want on your terms.

User-focused UX and great interoperability make migration and getting started with Nextcloud Hub very easy.

Time to say goodbye to Big Tech and take control over your data. Take Nextcloud Hub for a test drive today!

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This episode of the Nextcloud Podcast is an exciting story from the community. And just in time before holidays, we are talking about cooking… and code. Meet Christian Wolf, a long-term Nextcloud contributor and maintainer of the famous Cookbook app!

During his early coding days, Christian was trying to learn more about web applications. Seeking an app to sharpen his skills with, he came across the Cookbook app. Many years later, Christian is the main brain behind Cookbook, while the app is one of the most popular apps on Nextcloud App Store.

Christian shares with us how he got into coding and open source, his work on the Cookbook app and his vision for its future, and tips for people who want to start developing for Nextcloud.

Take an issue, dig into the code. You will be surprised how much you can even learn if you start reading Nextcloud core. You can understand it actually if you are into programming at all.

Christian Wolf

Nextcloud contributor and maintainer of the Cookbook app

Tune in and find out:

• How to get into coding from scratch?
• What’s next for the Cookbook app?
• Does AI have a place in the craft of cooking?
• And what will Christian cook for Christmas?

Check out the Cookbook app on Nextcloud App store, organize and share your favourite recipes, and give your feedback to Christian if you have ideas for improvement. And happy holiday cooking!

Episode links

• Cookbook app in Nextcloud App store
• Cookbook app on GitHub
• Schema.org
• Nextcloud Community Conference
• Nextcloud Developer program: start developing apps today!
• Nextcloud Community forum

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Nextcloud expands its Dutch partner ecosystem. KPN, Centric, SURF, Lucidon, and Apura have entered or expanded their partnerships to provide businesses and public sector organizations access to sovereign technology.

The announcements were made at the customer and partner event, Enterprise Day The Hague. In addition, experts shared insights on current dependencies and migrations to sovereign solutions, including speakers from EuroStack, the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, and the Austrian Ministry of Economy, as well as the University of Amsterdam.

Nextcloud was also able to sign multiple partnership agreements to speed up the roll-out of Nextcloud in the Netherlands, offering an easy setup and effortless, secure access to sovereign IT solutions for Dutch companies and the public sector.

Digital sovereignty is a joint task. That’s why we want to create an ecosystem that is committed to this goal and works together to make organizations across the globe more independent and resilient. We’re proud to deepen our relationships and further expand our existing ecosystem to make better options to Big Tech available with local expertise to support and enable customers on their journey to digital sovereignty.

Frank Karlitschek

Nextcloud founder and CEO

KPN launches sovereign digital workplace

The leading telecommunications and IT service provider in the Netherlands KPN introduced a sovereign cloud working environment for Dutch organizations. The solution is hosted and managed entirely in the Netherlands in KPN’s data centers. This gives organizations more control over their data, ensures they comply with European laws and regulations, and makes them less dependent on international developments or parties.

Combining Nextcloud with KPN’s hosting, security, and services creates a modern workplace that complies with local legislation, is fully controllable, and does not depend on cloud providers outside the EU.

SURF: New pilot for employees at education and research institutions

IT cooperative of Dutch education and research institutions SURF will roll out the Nextcloud collaboration platform on a wider scale. After successful pilots, SURF members will soon be able to start working with Nextcloud. Dutch education and research institutions will be able to experiment with Nextcloud next year. Interested users can already sign up.

In February 2025, SURF initiated a project with Nextcloud to provide users with full control over their data, contribute to autonomy, and strengthen a healthier digital ecosystem. The IT cooperative is upscaling its pilot to the majority of Dutch universities.

Additional partnership agreements were signed with Lucidon and Apura.

Sovereign solutions for Dutch government organizations with Centric

Earlier this fall, Nextcloud joined forces with service provider Centric to collaborate on solutions for sovereign workplaces for Dutch government organizations. Together, the companies want to offer governments a future-proof alternative that revolves around control over data, infrastructure, and digital sovereignty.

Centric has traditionally focused on local government, but is going to broaden its gaze to the government as a whole.

We can’t do that alone, we’re going to shape this from a consortium of parties. The first steps have already been taken, as we recently signed a statement of intent for cooperation with Nextcloud. With them we are going to shape the offer of a sovereign workplace.

Maarten Hillenaar

Directeur Corporate Development at Centric

New collaborations to enhance the existing partner ecosystem

The new partnerships add to the existing Dutch Nextcloud ecosystem of The Good Cloud, Bechtle Netherlands, ProcoliX, Conduction, and Bossers & Cnossen.

We are seeing a huge momentum for digital sovereign solutions in the Netherlands. Thanks to deep market knowledge and their local digital infrastructure of our existing and new partners, we are able to meet Dutch customers’ demands for local hosting, regulatory compliance and exit options.

Frank Karlitschek

Nextcloud founder and CEO

Earlier in November, Nextcloud announced a plan to invest €250 million in digital sovereignty and launched the new Channel Partner Program to give businesses and public sector organizations access to sovereign technology.

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About the updates

The maintenance updates include a number of important bug fixes and improvements in all supported Nextcloud Hub versions. You can find the full changelog on our website.

Found an issue? Please report any issues you find in our GitHub repositories.

Updates are available for:

• Nextcloud Hub 10 (version 31.0.12)
• Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn (version 32.0.3)

Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn: Your digital workspace, ready in no time

It’s here! Say hello to Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn — Your digital workspace, ready in no time. Explore all the new features of our latest release and take it for a test drive:

• Global redesign and usability lift
• New Office UI: Colors, tabs, bars
• Performance and stability boost
• New AI Agency tools unlocked
• Talk threads & live transcription
• Calendar: Date poll for participants
• Intuitive file search
• Teams 2.0 & quick Guest accounts
• Quick presets & many other admin updates
• Vue3, WebSockets and more OpenAPI for devs
• … and much more!

Get Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn now!

Start your instant trial right away or download the latest version!

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Always keep your server up to date!

Nextcloud’s minor releases primarily focus on addressing security vulnerabilities and functionality bugs, avoiding major system overhauls that could jeopardize user data. Keeping your server up to date is vital, and our approach to testing and validation ensures that upgrading to minor releases is generally smooth and reliable.

For mission-critical Nextcloud systems in enterprise settings, consider switching to Nextcloud Enterprise. The tier provides you with ultimate deployment confidence: direct access to the Nextcloud engineering team, full assistance throughout deployment and integration, and peace of mind for system administrators. If you’re responsible for maintaining Nextcloud in your setting, this option may be the ideal solution for you.

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2025 is wrapping up, so let’s hit the “pause” button and look back at what we’ve been up to, where it got us, and what lies ahead.

Millions of people started using Nextcloud in 2025. This big jump only happens for a reason, and we are here to find it. If you spent this year with Nextcloud, as a user or customer, admin, contributor or a technology partner or provider, you will certainly enjoy this written journey.

We remembered every small detail for you: every release, every event, the headlines that were especially sharp, what you liked reading and watching.

And if you are reading this only by chance, it’s a great opportunity to see how important privacy and digital sovereignty have become, and the progress being made towards a better and safer digital world.

Enjoy!

Nextcloud Team

We are dreaming bigger

Let’s begin with how the impact of Nextcloud has grown in 2025. With over 500K servers running worldwide, it is very motivating to see our work make meaningful impact. Big government projects giving national ministries and institutions control of their data back, small teams using Nextcloud for valuable initiatives in the world, or home users choosing privacy when storing and sharing files away from Big Tech clouds.

With the rising global uncertainty this year, the interest in Nextcloud from potential customers has tripled. We have demonstrated that sovereign alternatives to Big Tech, and an end to global digital dependency, are not only possible, but already available.

In some of the countries, the digital sovereignty momentum is especially high. For example, in the Netherlands, we’ve had two record-breaking Nextcloud Enterprise Days this year. The inquiries from local businesses and the public sector have increased eightfold. In France, numerous organizations in the public sector boast 6-figure Nextcloud deployments.

And there are even more countries waking up to the need for digital autonomy, choosing Nextcloud as their online workspace solution. In 2025, we’ve shaken hands with many new customers in Europe’s public sector, such as at Austria’s Federal Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism (BMWET) and the administration of the City of Stuttgart in Germany.

People’s project: Growing international team and culture

This global success can only scale with the growth of our collective. In 2025, the Nextcloud team grew by 27%, and we have many more members joining next year.

With its strong roots in the open source community, Nextcloud is a people’s project, which is reflected in our core values. Coming from 26 countries and incredibly diverse walks of life, our team has shaped our culture to be fundamentally democratic, dialogue-driven, and inclusive.

We know that investing in people is the best way to use our resources. That’s why we hire from our community, support and encourage our employees to participate in the open source life, and to grow professionally.

We are growing further and looking for new people in some of the key positions, for example, Senior C++/Office Engineer and Content Marketing team lead. If you are inspired to join Nextcloud and help bring autonomy and freedom to even more people, let’s talk!

At the forefront of digital freedom, as always

Introducing the Digital Sovereignty Index

Digital sovereignty topic is getting more and more recognition in the world. At the same time, it’s actively becoming a marketing buzzword and, even worse, getting appropriated by tech giants.

So what does digital sovereignty really mean? And in how far is your country digitally sovereign?

Numbers always bring clarity. By launching the Digital Sovereignty Index, we could show how countries compare in actual digital independence.

You can also dive into our methods and check how our tracker works. And of course, there are some limitations and caveats. Do you have some ideas on how to overcome them? We love a good contribution or suggestion, so get in touch right away!

€250M for digital sovereignty by 2030

Achieving digital sovereignty is a long game. We support numerous political initiatives that aim to create digitally sovereign offerings for Europe, yet we believe that support from private projects can have a quicker impact. So this year, we announced our own “Sovereign 2030” initiative to invest €250 million in digital sovereignty by 2030.

Our key investment areas:

• Growing our international workforce
• Empowering the broader open source community as well as our own Nextcloud community
• Strengthening partnerships and expanding the ecosystem
• Educating and informing the public about privacy, security, and digital sovereignty

Channel Partner Program

Access to local resellers and service providers is the first step to making digital sovereignty an actionable plan for people, companies, and governments. Alongside our investment initiative, we launched the Channel Partner Program to enable local companies with expert support and sovereign solutions on fair, beneficial terms, while ensuring they can control their roadmap and pricing.

Discover Nextcloud Channel Partner Program and read more about what its launch means to our resellers, service providers, and customers in our blog.

We did it: Awards in 2025

Platinum in CloudComputing-Insider IT-Awards

Nextcloud receives a Platinum Award at CloudComputing-Insider IT Awards for the fifth time.

Blauer Engel ecolabel for green IT

Nextcloud becomes the first cloud software platform to earn the Blauer Engel ecolabel.

Nextcloud Awards: Who is shaping the future of digital independence?

This year, we launched Nextcloud Awards to celebrate changemakers in digital sovereignty: people, organizations, and projects that are actively working towards a future where users themselves, not corporations, control their data.

Accepting nominations in two categories in 2025, and joined by a team of expert jurors, we announced the winners:

• Category “Implementation Role Model”: Schleswig-Holstein
• Category “Special Award 2025: digital sovereignty awareness in times of geopolitical changes”: CódigoSur and Signal Foundation

Three breakthrough releases

Our team of engineers has been working all year round to make Nextcloud apps smarter, faster, and smoother. This year, we have seen three big releases that changed the way teams collaborate.

Integrated and modular, Nextcloud Hub 10

Nextcloud Hub 10 celebrated what makes Nextcloud architecture unique: smooth integration of all of your tools with modularity that lets you choose how you work and what you use. All-round UX and performance boost, enterprise-grade security with E2EE calls and web encryption, usability improvements in Nextcloud Mail, Talk, and Teams, Nextcloud Assistant 3.0 and first AI agent features, and lots more.

Resilient communication and collaboration with Nextcloud Talk “Munich”

In times of uncertainty, organizations seek resilient tools for their communication and collaboration needs. With a stand-alone Nextcloud Talk release, launched live at the Nextcloud Summit in Munich, we gave our strong answer: a modern, digitally sovereign platform for work chats, meetings, and webinars, with lower barrier to migration and extended telephony features.

Ready in no time, Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn

Now, the big hit. Our latest launch, Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn, not only comes under a new name but has an entirely new feel. Through refreshed branding, subtle design improvements, and great maintenance and performance effort, it combines under-the-hood and all-around visual improvements.

We focused on what matters and made it meaningfully better: more intuitive and easy-to-adopt UI, more automations, and more focus. That’s the user side, but if you speak code, a great deal of admin improvements, new frameworks, new config presets, and 6X faster file uploads.

Figuring out how to do everything you need to do is intuitive, and it’s a snap to delegate permissions without accidentally turning every user into an admin.

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Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn feels significantly faster and more responsive across the board. File uploads technically have the ability to be up to six times faster thanks to the improvements in chunked uploads, which also makes transferring large files much more reliable. And as you saw, the entire platform is snappier due to a 15% reduction in database queries.

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New crisp branding

With Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn, we gave our branding a fresh touch. Working across product UI, interface branding, and our graphic narrative, we wove the new visual code into Nextcloud end-to-end. Find out more in the Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn release blog.

New integrations

Nextcloud is one unified platform for all collaboration needs, and it’s not limited to Nextcloud Hub. Our ecosystem is growing, offering new ways to collaborate via familiar tools in an integrated environment.

Documenso

Simplify document signatures with self-hosted, open source alternative to DocuSign.

OpenProject

Simplify project file management and sharing by connecting Nextcloud to the world’s leading open source project management tool.

XWiki

Connect XWiki-based wikis, search content in them and share pages easily via Smart Picker.

Zulip

Integration app for easy file sharing in Zulip now lets you search public and direct messages via Unified Search in Nextcloud Hub.

Overleaf

Work with LaTeX files to create and publish technical documents.

Integration updates

Updated integrations with Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Discourse, Google and more.

Community life highlights

Nextcloud Community Conference 2025

With record-breaking attendance of 400 guests, we had a blast at our annual community gathering in Berlin this September.

A few highlights:

• Michael “Monty” Widenius, creator of MySQL and MariaDB, joined us with a keynote, “Building Trust with MariaDB: Open Source as a Path to Digital Sovereignty”.
• Daphne Muller, Manager Alliances, Ecosystem & Support at Nextcloud, presented “From policy to practice: implementing the EU AI Act for open source software”.
• The “How to contribute” panel and “Voices of the community” roundtable let us sit down together and discuss what being part of the community in 2025 actually looks like.
• And of course, the weekend was packed with lightning talks from fans, contributors, and creators of Nextcloud integrations, hands-on workshops, lots of networking, and after-hours activities.

We can’t wait to meet you!

Nextcloud Community Conference is a truly special event. If it is your dream to reunite with the fellow Nextclouders, but traveling to Berlin is tricky, remember that we always offer travel support via Nextcloud Include and provide an option to volunteer at the event.

Let’s go even bigger next year. Until we meet again in 2026!

Join the Nextcloud community: Develop, test, translate, love

There are many ways to get involved, from contributing code and developing apps to testing performance and security, and even doing non-code contributions like documentation and translation. Join our growing community and become part of our mission!

Contribute to Nextcloud

Want to start developing apps? Don’t be shy!

If you wish to test your skills and knowledge and get started with coding, why not grow together with a dynamic, growing ecosystem of the leading open source collaboration platform? Enjoy an abundance of developer tutorials, a vast API library a big, welcoming app store.

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Moments across the map: events in 2025

28 events

Trade shows and conferences attended around the world

4 Nextcloud Enterprise Days

In Denmark, France and twice in the Netherlands

Nextcloud Summit

Our first global flagship event

Nextcloud Conference

Annual Nextcloud community gathering

Nextcloud Summit: Digital sovereignty revolution starts here

Digital sovereignty is a movement, and we might’ve just created a home base for it. In June, we organized the first Nextcloud Summit, which was an instant success: 400+ participants from over 10 different countries, 20 remarkable sessions, 30 speakers on stage.

The agenda? Catalytic. Some of the program highlights included:

• Keynotes by Dr. Cristina Caffarra, Economist and Antitrust Expert, and Sven Thomsen, CIO of the German federal state Schleswig-Holstein
• Launch of Nextcloud Talk “Munich”, your privacy-first Microsoft Teams alternative
• The very first Nextcloud Awards ceremony
• Customer success stories and tracks tailored for business, government, developers, and the press

We’re looking forward to continuing to build on the digital sovereignty momentum in 2026. Make sure to join us for the next edition of this must-attend event!

Nextcloud Summit 2026: Get your seat now!

Registrations for the next edition of the Nextcloud Summit on June 9, 2026, in Munich, Germany, are already open. Reserve your seat at the Early Bird rate.

Register now

Nextcloud Enterprise Days

Nextcloud is growing remarkably fast in some countries. That’s why we decided to focus the Nextcloud Enterprise Days on the local agenda: best practices from business and the public sector tailored to local regulations and the regional landscape; inspiring regional success stories; speakers and guests the audience values most; and, of course, using the local language as official for each event.

This focus made Nextcloud Enterprise Day truly a must-attend event:

• We’ve been twice to The Hague, the Netherlands, attended by 300 and almost 400 guests respectively, breaking the initial plan of 60. Our most successful Nextcloud Enterprise Day so far.
• Nextcloud returned to Paris, France, with an event which has become our annual winter tradition, this time doubling the number of attendees.
• Our first event in Copenhagen, Denmark, brought together our friends from the Nordics and sparked the long-awaited conversation in the region.

The Nextcloud Enterprise Day has become our most successful localized event format, and we are excited to expand it further. Enterprise Day will be coming to Switzerland, Austria, and Spain early next year.

The ABCs and the deep dives: Nextcloud webinars

We hosted 71 webinars this year, with 6700+ people attending across 137 countries to learn about deploying and using Nextcloud in different settings: from highly secure air-gap environments to education and enterprise use cases. Our most popular webinar this year had 887 registrations!

Our top three most-watched webinars in 2025:

• Nextcloud Hub 10: The secure and private alternative to Microsoft 365
• From Microsoft to digital sovereignty: Practical steps for your organization
• Break free from Confluence: Your complete open source migration stack

Missed something? You can watch numerous webinars, including these three highlighted webinars, on demand. Time to catch up!

Content you loved this year

In 2025, we wrote 88 blog articles, sent out 12 community newsletters, published 61 videos on YouTube, and hosted 2 new podcast episodes.

The best of our blog in 2025

• Meet the first open source AI assistant that doesn’t prey on your data (Update)
• Digital Sovereignty Index: How countries compare in digital independence
• The proposed EU Chat Control law is a threat to our democracy. What can you do to prevent it?
• Austria’s Ministry of Economy takes decisive steps toward digital sovereignty
• How to back up and restore Nextcloud AIO remotely using BorgBackup

In conversation: Nextcloud Podcast

• Owning your data: The open source path with Nextcloud and MariaDB
• Nextcloud AIO: The easiest way to self-host Nextcloud with Simon Lindner

Success stories you were inspired by

• Île-de-France offers 550,000 students and staff a sovereign cloud collaboration platform
• Nextcloud enables secure, sovereign collaboration for Austria’s Federal Ministry
• Crowe Greece — Secure file management and collaboration with Nextcloud
• Secure cloud storage and file sharing software for NGOs: The Economy for the Common Good with Nextcloud
• New cooperation partner: City of Stuttgart relies on Nextcloud (press release in German)

Videos you loved

• Don’t let AI take away your privacy. Discover the Nextcloud Assistant
• Is it time to move away from Teams? Check out how Talk brings a sleek design to your chats!
• Privacy never looked so good. Discover fresh updates in Files, including Liquid Glass for Apple

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Catch you in 2026!

New challenges are just ahead. But fortune favors the bold, we know that.

And you are bold: by choosing privacy and digital freedom, and by running your home, your team, or maybe a whole big company to open, fair, and decentralized working tools.

This year, we like to think we moved one step closer to a better, safer digital world. Let’s do a few more steps in 2026.

Cheers!

Your Nextcloud team

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French Nextcloud customers shared insights from recent deployments of its sovereign digital workplace technology to millions of users with talks covering 6 figure deployments at ministries, cities and state level. The fast growth of Nextcloud in the French market underlines the increasing interest in resilient IT infrastructure with customers expressing concerns around global uncertainty, dependencies and legal risks.

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French Nextcloud customers shared insights from recent deployments of its sovereign digital workplace technology to millions of users with talks covering 6 figure deployments at ministries, cities and state level. The fast growth of Nextcloud in the French market underlines the increasing interest in resilient IT infrastructure with customers expressing concerns around global uncertainty, dependencies and legal risks.

French President Emmanuel Macron stated that “Europe is stepping up to accelerate the development of European innovation, to uphold strong data protection, and to call for fair market conditions” at the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty in November. The urgent need for action on sovereignty was emphasized by renewed pressure from the US government on the EU to reduce or cease enforcement of laws designed to protect citizens and businesses from market abuse.

At the Nextcloud Enterprise Day in Paris, Nextcloud CEO and founder Frank Karlitschek opened the day with a clear statement:

European values are non-negotiable, and we can’t put ourselves in a position to be blackmailed. That is why we must reduce dependencies in order to protect European sovereignty.

Frank Karlitschek

Nextcloud CEO and founder

France overwhelmingly chooses Nextcloud for digital sovereignty

Given the geopolitical situation, it comes at no surprise that French organizations are acting. At the customer and partner event focusing on digital sovereignty, around 200 participants joined from public sector organizations, companies, and schools and universities. This represents nearly a doubling of interest compared to 2024.

The wide range of French Nextcloud customers demonstrates that digital sovereign workplace solutions are ready for enterprise use and proven at scale, with deployments discussed ranging from thousands to millions of users at schools, universities, companies and public sector organizations from the local to the national level.

During the day, participants expressed concerns about the dependency on foreign, big tech vendors and many questions centered around migration strategies from Microsoft or Google to a sovereign Nextcloud setup.

As Europe’s only serious competitor to Microsoft 365, Nextcloud has been rolled out in thousands of large scale deployments in the public sector, education and at businesses to provide users with a sovereign, easy to use digital workspace. It recently announced to invest 250 million Euros in digital sovereignty to accelerate the roll-out of sovereign technology to businesses and public sector organizations across Europe.

At the event, French organizations customers gave background on their Nextcloud instances with millions of users who store and collaborate on documents, engage chat or videoconferencing, and manage calendars, emails.

Ministry of Energy Transition

The Ministry of Energy Transition presented the integration of Nextcloud and Collabora into their sovereign collaboration suite for 50,000 users. The ministry emphasized how the organization benefits from interoperability, security, collaboration, and sovereignty through open source solutions.

Nextcloud is a great modular tool, allowing a sovereign collaboration at the service of energy transition.

Cyril Aeck

Deputy Group Leader for Collaboration and Digital Services, Ministry of Energy Transition

Île-de-France

Sovereign cloud provider Leviia presented the deployment Nextcloud as collaborative suite for 550,000 teachers and students in the Paris metropolitan area Île-de-France. The ambitious digital transformation project integrates with the existing education platform, monlycée.net and connects students, teachers, and administrative staff across hundreds of high schools. In essence, they benefit from a secure, privacy-respecting environment for learning, collaboration and file exchange.

Leviia and Nextcloud are a perfect match for the digital sovereignty goal at Île-de-France in a complex environment.

William Méauzoone

Leviia co-founder

Ville de Lyon

Nextcloud is at the heart of the sovereign cloud of the Métropole and Ville de Lyon with service provider for the public sector SITIV giving a presentation with Nextcloud partner Easya Solutions. Nextcloud is hosted in regional data centers. Several thousand employees in seven local authorities are already using it, and the solution is designed to be shared on a regional scale.

We decided to use Nextcloud solutions for sovereignty, confidentiality and independence from GAFAM. The solution is hosted locally, enhancing security and making it GDPR compliant.

Stéphane Vangheluwe

managing director at SITIV

French Ministry of National Education

The French Ministry of National Education is rolling out Nextcloud, with already over 330K daily employees and administrative staff using it. The end goal is 1.2 million employees and the presentation showcased the implementation and rollout process at scale.

We wanted to roll out an open source solution that allows us to keep knowledge in-house, to ensure the independence and autonomy of education in France. As of today, hundreds of thousands of employees work daily with Nextcloud and it has changed how they collaborate with colleagues, administration and others. Nextcloud has become a key driver in their daily work!

Benoît Piédallu

project lead for shared digital services at the Ministry of National Education

Key questions around user acceptance and migration strategies

These and other customers provided insights into their journey towards a sovereign digital workplace, explaining their motivations, sharing best practices and answering questions. A big topic was user acceptance, with the major learning that with the right change management in place, introducing sovereign technology can be done while bringing users along.

Practical solutions: migration, interoperability and integrations

Additional sessions tackled a wide range of migration scenarios and interoperability solutions. Speakers included the expert in email, groupware, and storage migration audriga, the leading open source project management software provider OpenProject, Microsoft integration specialist Sendent, the provider of online collaborative document editing Collabora Online and French IT services provider arawa.

During the breaks, participants at the event had a chance to discuss various topics around digital sovereignty in France with each other and the speakers.

Nextcloud expands French ecosystem with new partnerships

At the event, Nextcloud also signed a strategic partnership agreement with Smile Group, the leading European open source integration and service provider. By combining Nextcloud’s collaborative workplace platform with Smile Group’s deep expertise in large-scale open source integration, the two companies are set to deliver viable, European alternatives to proprietary extra-European solutions.

Earlier in November, sovereign cloud provider Leviia announced the extension of its partnership with Nextcloud. Leviia Next is a digital sovereign alternative to Microsoft 365 for large organizations based on hyper-scalable cloud infrastructure hosted in France. The offering is designed to equip organizations with tens to hundreds of thousands of users. The new and extended partnerships add to the existing French partner ecosystem.

The event was closed by Yann Lechelle (CEO, Probabl) with a talk on digital resilience, EuroStack Initiative and openness as strategy to solve the sovereignty conundrum.

Concluding: it is time to move!

This year’s Enterprise Day underlined the massive momentum Nextcloud has in France. Our commitment is to continue this growth and help every organization looking to bring back their data under their own control! Contact our team and find out how Nextcloud and our partners can help you.

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Leviia deployed Nextcloud for 550,000 students, teachers and staff for Île-de-France, the region around Paris.

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A trusted digital environment for education and public service

In an ambitious digital transformation project, Île-de-France, the region around Paris, chose Nextcloud partner Leviia to implement Nextcloud as sovereign collaborative suite within the regional platform monlycée.net. The sovereign collaboration platform was designed to replace solutions from Microsoft.

This initiative connects over 550,000 students, teachers, and administrative staff across hundreds of high schools. In essence, they benefit from a secure, privacy-respecting environment for learning, collaboration and file exchange.

The project also puts into the spotlight the region’s commitment to digital sovereignty, GDPR compliance, and independence from non-European cloud providers.

The need for a unified, compliant collaboration space

Île-de-France, the north-central French region with eight administrative areas (including Paris), relied heavily on their education platform, monlycée.net, as it played a central role in everyday school operations. Yet, file sharing, communication, and document collaborations needs had grown and so had the complexity of managing fragmented tools. It had also become increasingly difficult to maintain data protection, a very serious issue given that much of it was minor’s personal data.

To meet this challenge, the region, supported by its regional digital operator Worldline PSN, sought a cloud collaboration platform that would:

• Scale seamlessly to more than half a million users
• Integrate natively with the regional SSO and existing digital services
• Deliver complete control over data location and security
• Ensure legislative compliance
• Reflect European values of privacy, transparency, and accessibility

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Building a sovereign platform with Leviia and Nextcloud

After a thorough evaluation, Île-de-France selected Leviia, a French cloud provider and Nextcloud partner, for its technical expertise and long-standing commitment to open-source, privacy-first collaboration.

Leviia designed a Nextcloud instance capable to support over 500 thousand users through a single access point, with high availability and data distribution across three French data centers and integration with a number of key technologies needed by the regional government.

Key implementation features:

• Native integration with the Region’s SSO, Worldline PSN ecosystem, and existing monitoring systems (SOC/SIEM)
• Personalized storage of 10 to 100 GB per user, depending on their profile
• Collabora Online for document co-editing and group projects
• Advanced security measures including WAF, antivirus, anti-DDoS and erasure coding
• Full account life cycle automation aligned with the educational calendar

A public sector success story in digital sovereignty

The resulting Nextcloud-based platform combines ease of use, strong compliance and future scalability. Throughout documents, lesson materials, and administrative workflows, teachers and students alike immediately adopted the new system and welcomed the ability to collaborate securely.

Key outcomes:

• 550,000 active accounts
• Fast and stable performance
• Compliance ensured with GDPR, ISO 27001, and HDS standards
• Increased awareness of digital sovereignty in French educational sector

Shaping the future of sovereign digital education

The Île-de-France digital transformation project proves that open-source collaboration can scale securely at the national level, providing a secure European cloud ecosystem. The region has built a trusted digital workspace on Nextcloud backed by Leviia’s expertise and sovereign hosting.

The large-scale success is a model for other regions and government entities seeking to strengthen digital sovereignty and provide secure public services.

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Securely manage IDs while retaining control over your data with Nubus from Univention: a sovereign, European alternative to Microsoft Entra ID.

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Digital identities are among the most valuable assets of any organization. They determine who is allowed to log in, which systems are accessible, and which data remains protected. In today’s interconnected world, where employees, partners, and applications collaborate across national borders, effective identity management has become a critical technology for modern security and digital sovereignty, transcending the realm of IT to become a key strategic consideration.

Only those who have complete control over identity and access management (IAM) can operate with confidence. Many companies rely on major cloud platforms, such as Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), to manage user accounts, access rights, and authentication. However, this comes with risks, including dependence on proprietary cloud infrastructures, limited data control, and legal uncertainties regarding data protection and data flows outside the EU.

Univention Nubus: the sovereign alternative to Microsoft Entra

Following the integration of Nubus, Nextcloud partner Univention is offering a sovereign alternative. This data-sovereign IAM system puts IT departments back in control of storage locations, access rights, security policies, and integrations. This is particularly important in the public sector, schools, and highly regulated industries.

Technically, Nubus is on a par with solutions such as Microsoft Entra, but there is one crucial difference: Nubus gives the organization full control over identities, data, and infrastructure.

Open, modular, cloud-ready

Nubus is based on open standards, including OpenID Connect, SAML, and LDAP. This enables flexible integration into existing systems, whether they are cloud-based, on-premises, or hybrid. With features such as single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and self-service, Nubus meets all the core requirements of modern identity solutions.

Unlike Microsoft Entra, Nubus can operate entirely within sovereign cloud environments or your own data centres. It can also be containerised with Kubernetes if desired.

Independence instead of vendor lock-in

Although Microsoft Entra ID is closely integrated with the Microsoft ecosystem, Nubus is designed to be open and interoperable. Organizations can decide for themselves which cloud services to connect to and where to store their identities. This approach avoids the classic vendor lock-in associated with proprietary IAM solutions, with which many companies are familiar. Nubus, therefore, offers technological sovereignty and strategic independence.

Ideal for administration, education, and companies with high compliance requirements

For many years, Univention has partnered with numerous public institutions, educational providers, and companies that take digital sovereignty seriously. School authorities like in Fulda and Kassel already relied for years on Nextcloud and Nubus, and the state of Schleswig-Holstein has also become independent of US providers by trusting in the combination of these two open-source offerings from Germany.

IAM requires trust — and control

Microsoft Entra, Okta, and other cloud identity and access management (IAM) solutions all demonstrate how important identity management has become for modern IT security. However, true digital sovereignty requires more than just convenience and scalability; it also requires transparency, openness, and control.

Univention Nubus embodies these qualities.

If you want to securely manage identities while retaining control over your data, Nubus offers a sovereign, European alternative to Microsoft Entra ID that is open, flexible, and independent.

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The 2nd enterprise event in the Netherlands this year attracted 400 participants, reflecting growing interest in sovereignty. Customers and partners focused on migration strategies.

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In May, Nextcloud organized its first Nextcloud Enterprise Day in the Netherlands. Aiming initially for 60 participants, the event had to expand the venue twice to accommodate the nearly 300 attendees! This week, a second Nextcloud Enterprise Day in The Hague reached almost 400 participants, showing the continued growth of interest and awareness of digital sovereignty in the Netherlands in just the last 6 months.

A focus on real-world deployments

Since the beginning of the year, demand for sovereign work place technology has skyrocketed and Nextcloud has seen an eight-fold increase in inquiries from companies, public sector organizations and educational institutions looking to learn about digital sovereignty in the Netherlands. At the event, participants expressed concerns about the dependency on foreign, big tech vendors and many questions centered around migration strategies from Microsoft or Google to a sovereign Nextcloud setup.

The program was heavily focused on customer stories, with a delegation from the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, a team from the cooperation of Dutch education organizations SURF and the Austrian ministry’s CISO all making an appearance.

They all detailed their journey towards a more autonomous and sovereign digital workplace, explaining their motivations, sharing best practices and answering questions. A big theme was user acceptance, with the major learning that with the right change management in place, introducing sovereign technology can be done while bringing users along.

Digital workplace offerings and migration strategies

The quickly growing dutch partner ecosystem was present, spearheaded by KPN and Centric, both covering the new sovereign digital work place offerings on the Dutch in their breakout sessions. Additional sessions tackled a wide range of migration scenarios and interoperability solutions. Speakers included the expert in email, groupware, and storage migration audriga, the leading open source project management software provider OpenProject, Microsoft integration specialist Sendent and the provider of online collaborative document editing Collabora Online. The sponsors also included the Dutch branch of system integrator Bechtle, present with a booth.

During the breaks, participants at the event had a chance to discuss various topics around digital sovereignty in the Netherlands with each other and the speakers.

The event was closed with known anti-trust economist and chairperson of the newly founded EuroStack Foundation, Cristina Caffarra, speaking to the audience in a Q&A format about trends in digital sovereignty in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe.

Concluding: it is time to move!

Our second Nextcloud Enterprise Day this year underlined the massive momentum Nextcloud has in the Netherlands. Our commitment is to continue this growth and help every organization looking to bring back their data under their own control! Contact our team and find out how Nextcloud and our partners can help you achieve digital sovereignty in the Netherlands!

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