KOPANO PRODUCT STRATEGY & ROADMAP September 2016 COMMUNICATION & DRIVERS OF KOPANO SHARING PLATFORM PRODUCT STRATEGY Kopano introduces a thoroughly modern communication User needs are the main drivers for the development of experience. The advanced functionality enables teams our product and the implementation of new features. to boost productivity and enhance collaboration. To stay up to date on what sort of improvements and With more then ten years of experience in groupware extra features users want, we collect feedback. Product development, we provide software solutions to organize owners decide upon their product strategy based on the lives of busy professionals. this feedback and their own vision. Emailing and advanced calendaring are and remain Interaction with users and feedback from our test the core functionality for this purpose. With increased group have already lead to the development of the online presence, partially due to the rise of smart- new look & feel of WebApp 3.0 and improved search phones, people have increasingly become used to possibilities. User needs typically appear within one of instant communication and information sharing. three themes: be productive, work together, and keep Kopano combines the familiar yet advanced groupware control. We aim to directly improve the user experience features with instant communication and information by dedicating our innovations to these themes. sharing. DRIVERS OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT Instant communication Manageability Client connectivity Mobility Open Source Interaction with externals Search & find Information sharing Security & privacy BEING PRODUCTIVE WORKING TOGETHER KEEPING CONTROL 3 TOWARDS A NEW FOOTPRINT In June 2016 we have published the first release to create a reliable communication stack on our of the Kopano communication & sharing stack. own terms. Interaction with many partners and This release includes the first versions of WebApp, customers has shown what a good decision that S/MIME, Web Meetings, Files and a preview of the was. Kopano Outlook Extension for which the first final will be released this quarter! We also released the Quite some Kopano users originate from Zarafa. first final version of DeskApp, our desktop client. Since we forked from Zarafa we want to help you with a smooth transition from Zarafa to Kopano. With the release of Outlook 2010, Microsoft left Due to the equal codebase, the first Kopano prod- the path of offering a reliable interface for third ucts match with a certain version of Zarafa’s prod- party vendors like ourselves. These types of new ucts. For example the ZCP 7.2x series matches with development at Microsoft made us rethink our the Kopano Core 8.x series. client strategy. We have grasped the opportunity KOPANO IN A NUTSHELL Kopano is thé open source communication & This will be delivered through a future proof client sharing solution. It includes everything you need family. The key player here is WebApp, which allows for your daily professional life. Its open source you to be productive from anywhere. DeskApp is nature allows you to keep complete control of your developed as the bridge between WebApp and the data and your infrastructure. You can see what is desktop. Add-ons like Web Meetings and Files are happening to your data anytime and anywhere: on- the first visible steps that show the extendability premises or in the (hybrid) cloud. Naturally it is also that Kopano provides. Outlook support, working easy to integrate into existing environments, and offline and mobility are provided via ActiveSync its modular architecture remains the foundation and the Kopano Outlook Extension. for easy scalability. Kopano product strategy & roadmap 4 KOPANO PRODUCT OVERVIEW The table below provides you with the complete second half of 2016. For future releases in 2017 we overview of the components in the Kopano com- have identified the goals and drivers for develop- munication & sharing solution. The rest of this ment, which will lead to a specific feature set and document presents a detailed overview of Kopano other improvements during the remainder of 2016. releases in 2016, and of upcoming releases in the COMPONENTS RECENT RELEASES UPCOMING RELEASES FUTURE OF KOPANO Backend Q2 /16 Q3 /16 Search, backup & perfor- PHP7, MySQL and CORE Performance mance improvements Ubuntu 16.04 support Q2 /16 Q4 /16 Integration with Synchronization ARCHIVER Performance Kopano Core of ACLs Management Q1 /16 Q4 /16 DASHBOARD Organisation & health Technical information Recommendations & status overview for partners Kopano Marketplace Clients Q2 /16 Q4 /16 New design & Information WEBAPP Categories & favorites advanced search management Q2 /16 Q4 /16 Improved integration DESKAPP DeskApp 1.0 final features User experience Q2 /16 Q3 /16 MOBILITY Preview of Kopano Performance improvement Improved ActiveSync (Z-PUSH) Outlook Extension & free/busy support support Add-ons Q2 /16 Q4 /16 WebApp integration & Personalization & WEB MEETINGS Usability & screen sharing multi-window handling further integration Q2 /16 Q4 /16 Integrated Files for Teams & large Collaboration FILES Webbased access attachment support Q3 /16 Q4 /16 S/MIME Security & authenticity Private keys & certificates Ease of use and advanced certification management 5 Core CHARACTERISTICS • Sharing platform for email, • Easy integration with existing • Share mailboxes and calen- files, calendaring, etc. architecture dars between co-workers Q2 2016 SEARCH, BACKUP & PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS The latest final versions of our group- ware have received massive perfor- mance and security improvements, such as extended platform support with RHEL 7 and SLES 12. The new Search provides an enterprise class search engine with better stabil- ity and more precise search results. The new Backup adds features such as the ability to backup WebApp settings and rules whilst remaining easy to use. Presence is a new backend service to complement recent and upcoming prod- ucts such as Web Meetings. Releases are now available via our new reposi- Kopano Core in the center of communication tory, which allows customers to update and maintain their installations easily. Q3 2016 UBUNTU 16.04 SUPPORT AND PERFORMANCE Our focus for the next version of Kopano Core is on the optimization of satellite components. We introduce support for Ubuntu 16.04 which includes sup- port for MySQL 5.7 and an enhanced PHP MAPI interface for interoperability with PHP 7. This will essentially allow speedups in many areas of our web based components. We are improving the performance of authentication requests by a factor of 1.5 in which all clients benefit with faster response time. Optimizations in memory management and many other (smaller) stability optimization fixes On-premise installations keep you in control are included as usual. FUTURE LARGE MAILBOX PERFORMANCE For future releases of Kopano Core performance in and scalability, even in long distance environments. all areas will remain the most important objective for development. We aim to enhance certain performance We are going to provide our first linux based import aspects of the Gateway (IMAP/POP), especially for very utilities (incl. PST) and continue with our code and per- large mailboxes. We also aim to improve the clustering formance optimization, effectively gaining even better of components to allow for a better failover handling performance throughout our solutions components. Kopano product strategy & roadmap 6 Archiver CHARACTERISTICS • Minimize mailbox size by • Deleted messages can still be • Identical in architecture to archiving old messages viewed and opened the Kopano Core server Q2 2016 KOPANO ARCHIVER Archiver provides a way to minimise mailboxes by moving old messages to slower (and presumably cheaper) stor- age. Archiver consists of one or more additional Kopano servers dedicated to storage of archived messages. These servers are identically in architecture to the normal Kopano server Once a message is archived, it may be deleted from the original mailbox. It can still be viewed and opened as if it were a normal message. The Archiver uses Kopano Core’s multi-server technology to seamlessly access the Archive’s ‘inboxes’. Archiver stages Q4 2016 INCREASING PERFORMANCE & INTEGRATION Kopano Archiver will gain from per- formance benefits made to the store archive and the user experience will be improved. Quota restrictions per archive store will be removed and restore options are extended after deleting a message after a certain time period. Next to these improvements Kopano Archiver’s integration will be improved to allow running on the same instance as the Kopano Server with a special configuration set. Archiver folders are available in WebApp FUTURE KOPANO ARCHIVER 2.0 Kopano Archiver 2.0 will introduce a full rewrite of all We aim to extend Kopano Archiver to fulfill more and Kopano Archiver utilities, which will allow the setting more criteria for auditing acceptability, especially in the & synchronization of ACLs. In addition, restoring areas of completeness and protection from change and from Archiver to the primary store has been made tamper (denial of deletion and modification). more efficient. Both tools utilize the python-kopano framework which allows for better integration with other third-party integrations. 7 Dashboard CHARACTERISTICS • A complete overview of cus- • Recommendations on techni- • Access to documentation, tomers and their installations cal improvement possibilities downloads and support Q1 2016 FIRST BETA RELEASE PROVIDES INSTALLATION