Collaboration should get better, not just spread across more tools.
Collaboration tools have grown over the past fifteen years without becoming simpler. Run them in your own data centre and you often get the older interface, the smaller feature set and the longer wait for every new release. Someone decided that. It is not a technical necessity.
Collabase takes the other route. One codebase, one feature set, two operating models. You decide where the data lives. What the software can do does not depend on it.
What the software has to live up to.
Four points that hold regardless of what the market currently rewards.
Self-hosted, without compromise.
An installation in your own data centre gets the same interface, the same feature set and the same speed as the managed environment. Data sovereignty and a good working experience belong together.
One licence, no tier model.
Every customer gets the same feature set. No editions, no capability locked behind a higher tier, no matrix to check whether your licence includes a given permission. The price follows the number of users, not the feature set.
One product, one codebase.
Cloud is an operating model, not a better product. We run the platform for organisations that want to hand over operations, and we ship the same platform to organisations that run it themselves. Moving between the two stays open.
Not a rebuild of tools that already exist.
Copying what already exists would copy its fault lines along with it. Collabase is built around the work that actually comes up in Swiss organisations: requirement, test case, task and document in the same space instead of in five systems with five contracts.
100 % Swiss. Today and in ten years.
Development, operations, support and ownership are in Switzerland and stay there. The data centres are in Geneva and Winterthur, support works Swiss hours, and the company behind Collabase is based in Zurich. Neither development nor operations are outsourced abroad, and no outside stake is planned.
Development
Switzerland
Operations and support
Switzerland
Ownership
Switzerland
What the company has to live up to.
Choosing a tool for the next ten years means checking who stands behind it. That is why this is here and not in the fine print.
Bootstrapped.
Collabase belongs to the people who build it. There are no investors expecting a return within a set period, and therefore no reason to steer the product by a growth curve rather than by the organisations working with it.
Quality over pace.
We would rather take on fewer customers and look after them properly. A feature ships when it holds up in production, not when a quarter ends.
Customers help shape the roadmap.
Anyone using Collabase talks directly to the people developing it. Feedback from production decides what comes next. A good product grows out of that loop, not out of an assumption about what customers might need.
Tell us what is missing.
It lands on the roadmap.
Show us how your teams work. We will show you where Collabase stands today and what comes next.