Easy Collaboration with Synology’s DSM 6.2 Features

Final Thoughts

This was a brief introduction to Synology’s latest collaboration tools in their latest version. I can say right away, it was a pleasure to use. Everything is intuitively placed, right where you’d expect it to be. The change from other office products such as OpenOffice or Google Documents will be easy.

A lot of Advantages

The advantage of these offerings is clear: You keep your data in-house, under your own control, and away from the risk any third party provider presents. At the same time, you don’t lose anything. In some aspects, you gain a lot. Another advantage is the Collaboration ability which you won’t have in a local application.

Drive, Office, Chat, and Calendar Apps

The Drive application is kind of the base of everything. With the advanced sharing options, labels, and office integration, it’s a solid cloud drive. But it is so much more than that.

Building on top of the drive, Synology offers you as good as a complete office package. Documents, Spreadsheets, and Slides are made in no time. You can even convert old local files with just two clicks. That’s good, but it becomes great when you add the chat and collaboration features. Work on the same files with your coworkers, have in-app chat windows and enjoy the benefits of version-history.

The Chat application can be accessed separately too and then there’s the also the Calendar. All that packed together will provide a very complete solution.

Final Thoughts

I’m the first to admit that I’m far from a whiz when it comes to office apps. I can write letters and create basic spreadsheets, but it ends there. So there might be cool functions which I missed. If it was a DTP app instead, I could have shown you thing you never dreamt of.

That said, I loved the experience and I can’t think of anything I would change.

“Synology’s Drive and Office tools offer you collaboration features of which you’re in control. A perfect piece of software for your NAS.”