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Your search for a Jira Data Center alternative ends here
You need an alternative to Jira Data Center, and you need it soon? No problem, OpenProject has got you covered!…
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AI-powered project and portfolio management with OpenProject
AI is everywhere. Especially large language models (LLM), which are what most people mean when they talk about AI today. These models are becoming common tools at work and in everyday life. At the same…
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A PM²-based software solution for the European public sector
What does a software solution look like that enables employees in the public sector to successfully prioritize, manage, implement, and report on strategic initiatives?…
Cases Open Source
Empowering the Public Sector with OpenProject: An Open Source alternative for project management
At a time when digital sovereignty and transparency are essential for governmental institutions, OpenProject offers secure, open source project management and team collaboration software tailored to public…
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Strong open source Jira and Confluence alternative: OpenProject and XWiki join forces
We are delighted to announce our official partnership with XWiki. This adds another important milestone on our journey to establish a fully open, transparent, and data-sovereign ecosystem as a genuine…
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Hacking Borders: Our participation in Hack Days 2025 in Paris
Last month, we wrote a blog post about our participation in Hack Days 2025, a hackathon organized by the digital directorate of the French government, DINUM (direction interministérielle du numérique)…
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The best open source alternative to Monday.com
If you are looking for a project management software and compare different solutions, you will eventually stumble upon Monday.com. We took a closer look at the software and compared it with the free open…
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Accessibility at OpenProject: real progress, real impact
Do you know why we forked Redmine back in 2012? The reason was accessibility. At the time, Deutsche Telekom hired us to remove various barriers in Redmine. When the Redmine maintainers showed no interest…
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For a sovereign digital Europe: OpenProject at HackDays Paris
How can open source tools from across Europe work better together? That’s the question OpenProject will explore at HackDays Paris, a hackathon organized by the French government’s DINUM, from June 2–4…
Cases Open Source
Lasers in the micrometer range: OpenProject at 3D-Micromac in Chemnitz
Lasers are now the tool of choice when it comes to processing or creating very, very small structures. In areas below 5 micrometers, the selection of suitable tools is very small and the quality requirements…
Cases Open Source
How Chemnitz, European Capital of Culture 2025, manages hundreds of projects for the Digital Agenda with OpenProject
Not just anyone can become a European Capital of Culture. Since 1985, the European Union has awarded this title to cities whose applications were convincing in six criteria of a multi-year selection process…
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The future of project management is open source
The time of closed, proprietary software is coming to an end. The future belongs to open source solutions. More and more organizations, especially in the public sector, are realizing the benefits and making…
Cases Open Source
Morpheus Space - Ion propulsion system with the help of OpenProject
Every day, mankind launches more and more satellites into space: navigation, internet, remote sensing and earth observation: more and more services are sharing the orbit, and the orbits are becoming ever…
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The rise of the Sovereign Workplace: openDesk – Your open source alternative to Microsoft and Google
Data privacy matters – we all know that and still, we send E-Mails with Microsoft and upload files to Google. Free and open source alternatives are sometimes simply not attractive enough in their standalone…
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Juice: OpenProject on the way to Europa
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is considered the most promising candidate for extraterrestrial life in the solar system. Thanks to a space company from Bremen, OpenProject is also on board.…
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openDesk 1.0 is here!
Now it’s official: openDesk 1.0 is here! We at OpenProject are very happy and excited to contribute the component for project management to this platform. Currently, we are at the Smart Country Convention…
Learning Open Source
The open project management methodology PM2 is the best alternative to PMI and PRINCE2
Read why the free and open project management methodology PM2 is a superior alternative to proprietary and expensive frameworks such as PMI and PRINCE2.…
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Democratizing Healthcare: Open source MRI for everyone
In the field of medical technology, the pursuit of innovation and accessibility has never been more important. Conventional MRI scanners are prohibitively expensive, limiting their availability to financially…