Real Time, Secure Collaboration

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1 Real Time, Secure Collaboration Michael Meeks General Manager Skype - mmeeks, G+ - mejmeeks@gmail.com LibreOffice Conference 2015, Aarhus Michael Meeks 1 / 28

2 What is Collabora Online? Documents + Spreadsheets + Slides Interoperability with Microsoft formats Viewing and Collaborative editing DOCX, DOC, RTF, XLSX, XLS, PPTX, PPT Import filters / Viewing for PDF, Visio, Publisher, Keynote, Numbers, Pages +many more Powerful WYSIWG rendering On-premise Integration with Nextcloud. Architecture bet on CPU threads & network...

3 Collabora: ~100 staff founded 2005 : ~20 staff founded 2013 Subsidiary 50/50 - Collabora / me. Shared raison d etre: Make Open Source rock. We re-invest your money in the open product. Leaders in the LibreOffice Community Community: 300 developers/year, 1000 contributors Collabora Online (DE) - 7 million docker images...

4 : examples One of the top three Italian banks 20,000 seats deployed in all their branch offices. Visionary cost savings. Partner: Partner: 0 Powerful document classification eg. top secret. Digital signatures and classification of paragraphs. 130 partners and growing... 4

5 A seamless partnership Nextcloud - an awesome partner working together seamlessly and regularly Product support & Professional Services. A single support partner. Nextcloud have experts in Collabora Online No blame-game nightmares: Bank: 5 people & 5 companies in the room. It is exactly not like that with us Single point of contact, and relationship. 5

6 Collabora Online Vision: Full-feature, Open Source, On-premise / hosted control your data & apps... No compromises & flexible Complements Nextcloud s vision

7 MS Office Online browser a stop-gap... 7

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9 Full-feature what does it mean?... The things the feature matrix hides... The complete set of precanned border functionality in MS Online The rich border UI in Collabora Online

10 Interoperability & Collaboration Interoperability & feature richness key deliverables... We have very powerful document interoperability Collabora Office ~8 million LOC, MS Office ~30 million LOC Most mature Office code-base outside of Microsoft 100% interoperability - not a credible claim I was on the ECMA Technical Committee standardizing MS XML formats. Interoperability a mix of: import, rendering, feature-set, export To edit you have to understand the format no reliable short-cuts. Expectation here we can win! Doing better than Google Docs, and Microsoft Online Collaboration is the key driver...

11 Example: writer Rich Fields support... Fill out DOC / DOCX forms tab through editable fields; skip protected sections

12 On-Mobile vs. On-Server experience Responsive Browser based integration Leverage the server for large / complex document rendering Familiar user interface Fast pan / zoom / selection etc. Not limited by power of device / JS Server can load large documents Server side font rendering Document Data stays on server - transmitted as pixels. Tile watermarking 12

13 Collaborative Spreadsheets...

14 Collaborative Presentations Impress:

15 Technical bits...

16 Hardware Sizing Guidelines: 10 active users / CPU thread 50Mb RAM / active user 100kbit/s / active user Capacity factor not a hoster 5000 users diversity 500 concurrent users: 50 CPU threads 25 Gb of RAM 50 Mbit of bandwidth Can setup today on a single largeish machine. Ultimately: CPU threads & network become cheaper over time. 16

17 HA / setup... HA setup more fun Split into three 8 CPU machines, 8GB each Users HA balancer of choice: haproxy, or F5 Collabora Online Workers Key attribute is to ensure that all traffic related to the same document goes to the same worker all collaborators end up in the same address space. Balancing on WOPISrc 17

18 Trying with a subset of your users: Allows groups to be used for isolation and also listed to enable a subset of groups to use Collabora Online

19 Collabora Online coming soon

20 Latency & interactivity improvements... Half the rendering latency per key-stroke Removed very visible 2-step cursor move + render: Old New: 1 round-trip San Francisco Europe Now acceptable. Dialog opening also faster. Tile update latency (s) Update latency for 200ms ping Before After Number of typed characters 4

21 Other 3.4 improvements Mobile UX improvements Much improved panning, zooming and positioning Improved long-press / context handling Zooming fixes when editing documents Improved panning, status bar use. Warn when we hit IE11 s maximum web-socket limit of six (!) Logging anonymization: Keep logging things but nothing personal: salt & hash GDPR logging goodness. Logging cleanup generally.

22 Collabora Online later this year...

23 Share from Collabora Online

24 Custom / Auto-Shape palette: Coming soon but less soon: H2 2018

25 Insert Image directly from Nextcloud...

26 Impress: Side-bar... Animations, Transitions, Master-pages it ll r S de ent n u opm l e v e d

27 And much more... Upgrade to Collabora Office 6.0 base Improved Visio, Publisher, Keynote, Pages, Numbers filters Thanks to the Document Liberation Project Much improved EMF+ rendering (thanks to Bartosz Kosiorek) Improved look including new Colibre icon theme (thanks to Andreas Kainz) Further mobile UX improvements Improved thumbnailing API / support Richer formula entry & dialog More to be announced...

28 Why Collabora Online Georgeous, interoperable, document collaboration Rich partnership with Nextcloud Seamless support from the experts. Rapid improvement with long term product management relationship Extremely easy to deploy alongside Nextcloud Backed by the large, diverse, vendor neutral LibreOffice community Stiftung based in +mejmeeks Skype: mmeeks