ownCloud Product Vision
ownCloud Vision: Secure, Sovereign Collaboration Platform for All
Discover ownCloud Infinite Scale, an open, federated collaboration platform for digital sovereignty and scalability. Empower your organization with secure, user-friendly file sharing.
Product Vision for ownCloud
ownCloud Infinite Scale is the open, federated collaboration platform for organizations that require digital sovereignty, scalability, and ease of use.
With ownCloud, we empower schools, research institutions, governments, and communities to share files and collaborate across organizations and beyond boundaries – without vendor lock-in, and with full transparency.
Our product is:
- Open: developed in the open, based on open standards (OCM, WebDAV, OIDC).
- Federated: enabling seamless collaboration across infrastructures and organizations.
- Sovereign: ensuring that digital decisions always remain with the users, not the provider.
- Scalable: from a single home server to federated multi-million-user deployments.
- Simple to use: intuitive interfaces, frictionless onboarding, and user-centric design lower the barriers for adoption across diverse audiences.
- Future-proof: modular, extensible, and sustained by both community contribution and commercial commitment.
- Accessible: designed inclusively so that all users – regardless of ability, device, or connectivity – can participate fully.
- Private by design: user data stays under the control of the operating organization, with privacy built into every layer of the architecture.
- Secure: end-to-end encryption, role-based access, and continuous hardening protect data at rest and in transit.
- Interoperable: seamless integration with e-government platforms, document management systems, digital signature workflows, and public-sector identity providers – beyond federation, into the broader ecosystem.