The two Swiss IT companies VNC and Collaboard have agreed on an intensive cooperation on February 1, 2023. It envisages further developing the communication and collaboration applications of both companies into a highly integrated solution.
Mobile working, remote working and new work scenarios place high demands on digital collaboration in companies, but also between companies, partners and customers. For this new form of limitless digital teamwork, VNC and Collaboard are closely interlinking their software solutions, creating a communication and collaboration offering for customers with a wide range and depth of functions.
With VNClagoon, VNC has a modular software stack in its portfolio, with a selection of modules ranging from messenger and e-mail to the video conferencing system VNCtalk to complex project management systems. Collaboard is an online whiteboard solution from the Swiss software company IBV, founded in 1981.
Collaboard can be used for digital collaboration in workshops, seminars or brainstorming, but also for project planning, product design, process visualization or creating mind maps. This is how Collaboard helps companies to develop, plan, conceptualize and implement innovative ideas.
Collaboard is platform, operating system and device independent. It is also hosting and cloud agnostic and can therefore be hosted in your own data center (on-premises) or in a cloud of your choice.
Extensive security features such as 2-factor authentication, tiered access rights and end-to-end 256-bit encryption ensure a high level of security and compliance with relevant standards such as DSGVO and GDPR. The digital whiteboard is available as a SaaS solution (Software-as-a-Service) with finely graded functional scopes for different requirements.
In the first step of the cooperation, the user-friendly single sign-on will be implemented for both tools and the possibility will be created to start the whiteboard directly from VNClagoon. Further technical development stages are the option for direct editing of VNClagoon documents in Collaboard and vice versa direct access to the Collaboard whiteboard from VNClagoon modules via a bidirectional interface.
The technical cooperation is accompanied by joint sales and marketing activities to expand the customer and partner landscape.
“For us, Collaboard is a kind of missing link in our range of solutions,” emphasizes Andrea Wörrlein, Managing Director of VNC in Berlin and Member of the Board of Directors of VNC AG in Zug. “We can use it to fulfill our customers’ wishes for an integrated digital whiteboard, which they have been missing in VNClagoon so far. After intensive evaluation, Collaboard is the best choice for this.”
“The way we work together has changed dramatically in recent times,” explains Michael Görög, Co-Founder & Head of Business Development at Collaboard. “Together with VNC, we can now provide a comprehensive digital collaboration tool for the resulting demanding tasks.”
