OnlyOffice (formerly TeamLab), stylized as ONLYOFFICE, is a

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and ecosystem of collaborative applications. It consists of online editors for text documents,

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s, forms and

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s, and the room-based collaborative platform.

History

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. In March 2012, TeamLab introduced the first HTML5-based online document editors at

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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. In March 2016, the developers released a desktop application – OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, which is positioned as an open-source alternative to Microsoft Office. In February 2017, the first integration app for ownCloud/Nextcloud was launched. In January 2022, the project introduced OnlyOffice Forms. In May 2022, a new office branch was opened in

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, Uzbekistan as a development hub. In April 2023, OnlyOffice released new solution – OnlyOffice DocSpace. In August 2023, OnlyOffice opened a holding company in Singapore and incorporated all the existing branches (those in Latvia, USA, 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 Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, ACRA. In February 2023, OnlyOffice released the first version of the ChatGPT plugin 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. In October 2023, OnlyOffice released the native PDF Editor. In January 2024, version 1.1.4 of the plugin was released which provided new tools for document editing and access to GPT-4. In February 2024, OnlyOffice introduced support for Right-to-Left (RTL) text.

Organization

Based in Latvia, OnlyOffice owner Ascensio System SIA was a subsidiary of Russian-based New Communication Technologies. Due to EU economic sanctions targeting Russia, European organizations that used the commercial version of OnlyOffice were prohibited from doing so.

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