What is Open Atrium?
Open Atrium is an open-source intranet and collaboration platform built on the Drupal content management system. It aims to provide organizations with a private, secure space to communicate, collaborate, organize content and projects, and build community.
Some of the key features of Open Atrium include:
- Wikis - For collaboratively creating and organizing knowledge, documentation, meeting notes, etc.
- Blogs - To share updates, announcements, stories, ideas publicly or privately across teams.
- Calendars - Shared calendars to organize schedules, meetings, milestones, events.
- Discussion forums - Enable topic-based conversations across the organization.
- Dashboard - Fully customizable personal dashboard to curate relevant content.
- Workspaces - Collaborative spaces for teams and projects to organize their work.
- Granular access control and privacy settings - Manage access and permissions at a very granular level.
Overall, Open Atrium brings together features like wikis, blogs, documents, tasks, discussions onto a common platform tailored for private company intranets and team collaboration environments. It aims to unlock tacit knowledge sharing through transparency, participation, and iteration.
Redmine, Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, Teamwork , ClockingIT, ActiveCollab, Redbooth, Podio, ZenTao, Shelf.io, MyHub, Studiometry are some alternatives to Open Atrium.