Why enterprise and medium-size companies should consider using Sandstorm
Sandstorm is an open source project built by a community of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to run open source web applications.
It offers more than 80 apps of useful apps in several categories as project management, task management, communication, collaborative writing,
Why you should consider Sandstorm?
Sandstorm sandboxes all of the included apps with offers a strong protection layer against bugs, security threats, and hackers.
A Sandstorm app cannot talk to the rest of the world unless you give it permission. That means you can put sensitive secrets in any app and rest assured that your data is safe. It also means that apps cannot "phone home" to their developers in order to spy on you.
Features
- It includes multiple apps with one setup
- Easy to setup, configure, and update
- It has a built-in Single Sign-on (SSO)
- Sandstorm has a growing ecosystem that includes dozens of enterprise applications
- Unified sharing access control
- Apps are connected within Sandstorm
- Apps are sandboxed and protected
- Sandstorm comes with a built-in Auditable access
- Automatic updates
- Built-in notification
- User can setup automated backups
- Tabbed user-interface
- User can mention other users in all apps
- Search: Search across all apps with one search bar
- Join and connect identities
- LDAP, SAML and Active Directory integration
- Global Access Control
- Global Audit Logging
- Automatic Encryption
- Developer-friendly: enterprise developers can easily add their custom application or any other open-source apps
- In-app Billing
- Enterprise integration
Sandstorm app market
Here are some of the outstanding applications in Sandstorm app market:
- Waken: an open-source Kanban board project management system
- Etherpad: a collaborative documentation editor
- Rocket.Chat: an open-source Slack alternative written with Meteor
- Davros: an open-source Dropbox self-hosted alternative
- FileDrop: a self-hosted file sharing system for teams
- SandForms: an open-source form creation app
- QuickSurvey: helps enterprise create an impressive survey in no time
- Contact Otter: an open-source personal CRM
- Dillinger: A Markdown editor
- NodeBB: a useful lightweight forum
- EtherDraw: a simple collaborative Whiteboard
- DokiWiki: a PHP-based wiki engine for teams
- Scrumble: yet another kanban board management system
License
Sandstorm is licensed under the Apache License, version 2.0.
