Features

SOGo provides all features required by organizations to satisfy their increasing and demanding user base.

Web Interface

SOGo's modern Web interface features :

  • Lightweight AJAX interface available in over a dozen languages
  • Modern look and feel that mimics Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Lightning
  • Drag and Drop capabilities for contacts, events and mail messages
  • All modern Web browsers are supported
  • Single sign-on capabilities using CAS, WebAuth or Kerberos

Desktop Clients

SOGo provides perfect integration with desktop clients such as :

  • Mozilla Thunderbird - considered as the favored client to use with SOGo due to its tight integration using the SOGo Connector and Integrator extensions. With Thunderbird, one can easily share address books, calendars and emails with other SOGo users - all this due standard protocols such as CalDAV and CardDAV provided by SOGo
  • Microsoft Outlook - using the OpenChange connector developed by Inverse, Microsoft Outlook users can share address books, calendars and emails with other SOGo users without relying on costly MAPI providers. The connectivity between Microsoft Outlook and SOGo is native as SOGo will act as a fully featured Microsoft Exchange server to Microsoft Outlook clients (currently in development)
  • Apple iCal and AddressBook - much like with Mozilla Thunderbird, Apple applications can benefit from SOGo's address books and calendars sharing capabilities with any other SOGo users

Mobile Devices

With SOGo, data access goes beyond the Web and native interfaces. SOGo supports virtually every mobile devices such as :

  • Apple iPhone/iPad devices are supported natively through the use of the CalDAV and CardDAV protocols, which are well supported by SOGo
  • BlackBerry devices and Windows Mobile phones using the Funambol middleware and the Funambol SOGo Connector. Funambol also enables any SyncML capable devices to fully synchronize contacts, events and tasks with SOGo. Over 2 billion phones are supported
  • Google Android devices can easily synchronize calendars and contacts with SOGo

Server

The server part of SOGo focuses on : 

  • Ease of deployment by using standard operating system packages or by using the Zero Effort Groupware (ZEG) Appliance
  • Scalability to handle from a handful to hundreds of thousands of users. SOGo's architecture is perfectly horizontal so more servers can be easily added to handle the growth
  • Components reusability as SOGo uses existing IMAP, SMTP, database and LDAP services. When not available, best breed ones can be used from the Open Source community such as Cyrus IMAP Server, Dovecot, OpenLDAP, Postfix, MySQL and PostgreSQL
  • Support and compliance with collaboration-oriented standards such as CalDAV, CardDAV, IMAP ACL and more
  • DAV access to everything - calendars, addess books and even mails. This makes the application very scriptable and interoperable with third party applications
  • Ease of maintenance, evolution and customization using a templates-driven approach
  • Easy-to-use Web-based configuration tool using Webmin [External] and its SOGo plugin  [External]

Support

The SOGo solution is well supported by a large community and by Inverse [External], which provides commercial support to clients all around the world. Extensive documentation is available as well as a FAQ for popular questions.