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Office suite developed by Ascensio System SIA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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OnlyOffice (formerly TeamLab), stylized as ONLYOFFICE, is a free/libre and open source productivity software and ecosystem of collaborative applications.[4][5] It consists of online editors for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms and PDFs, and the room-based collaborative platform.
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OnlyOffice is delivered either as SaaS or as an installation for deployment on a private network.Its cloud solutions cater to businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies, offering advanced collaboration features. Created for online document collaboration, OnlyOffice also offers desktop editors for offline work.
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In 2009, a group of software developers from Ascensio System SIA (Latvian-based) and New Communication Technologies (Russian-based) launched a project called TeamLab, a platform for internal team collaboration.[6]
In March 2012, TeamLab introduced the first HTML5-based online document editors at CeBIT.[7]
In July 2014, TeamLab Office was officially rebranded to OnlyOffice and the source code of the product was published on SourceForge and GitHub on terms of AGPL-3.0.[8][9]
In March 2016, the developers released a desktop application – OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, which is positioned as an open-source alternative to Microsoft Office.[10]
In February 2017, the first integration app for ownCloud/Nextcloud was launched.[11]
In January 2022, the project introduced OnlyOffice Forms.[12]
In May 2022, a new office branch of Ascensio was opened in Tashkent, Uzbekistan as a development hub.[13]
In April 2023, OnlyOffice released new solution – OnlyOffice DocSpace.[14]
In August 2023, OnlyOffice opened a holding company in Singapore and incorporated all the existing branches (those in Latvia, US, UK, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Serbia) under the one brand. Ascensio System SIA was to become 100% owned by the British-based Ascensio System Ltd, which in its turn was to become 100% owned by OnlyOffice Capital Group Pte. Ltd. The beneficiaries of OnlyOffice Capital Group Pte. Ltd. are listed in the registry of Singapore companies by ACRA.[15][failed verification]
In February 2023, OnlyOffice released the first version of the ChatGPT plugin[16] with a basic set of features, such as text generation based on a user's prompt, question answering, translation, text summarization and conversation-style communication.[17]
In October 2023, OnlyOffice released the native PDF Editor.[18]
In January 2024, version 1.1.4 of the plugin was released which provided new tools for document editing and access to GPT-4.[19]
In February 2024, OnlyOffice introduced support for Right-to-Left (RTL) text.[20]
In August 2024, OnlyOffice registered an official department in Shanghai, China.[21]
In November 2024, OnlyOffice launches Virtual Data Rooms for advanced file security and transparency with automated indexing and content tracking.[22]
In June 2025, OnlyOffice launches Diagramm Viewer for visualizing Visio files – diagrams and workflows.[23]
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Based in Latvia, OnlyOffice owner Ascensio System SIA was a subsidiary of Russian-based New Communication Technologies.[24] Due to EU economic sanctions targeting Russia, European organizations that used the commercial version of OnlyOffice were prohibited from doing so.[25]
Russian ties
The connection between OnlyOffice and Russia has caused some controversy. For this reason some Ukrainian businesses have moved away from OnlyOffice.[26]
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