Alternatives to Doodle and other collaborative tools
In everyday life, appointment requests via Doodle or data exchange with Dropbox are very practical. However, it is worth considering alternative services with similar functionality. After all, data protection and data security should not be neglected in the business environment.
After all, the use of commercial and yet seemingly free services is problematic. Critical issues include data protection, the transfer of confidential data to untrustworthy services and the financing of these services via advertisements and the transfer of user data.
For this reason, we present offers from the TUM, the LRZ, the DFN, the Bavarian government and offers under free licenses and services certified by trustworthy authorities as possible replacements.
Voting, communication and collaboration
| Type | Service name | Provider | Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Webmail | Mail.tum.de | LRZ | TUM Mail |
| Meeting scheduler / simple polling / voting | MyVote | TUM | MyVote |
| DFN-Terminplaner | DFN | Terminplaner | |
| Videoconference | meet.lrz.de | LRZ | meet.lrz |
| DFNconf | DFN | VideoConference | |
| Evaluation | evaSys | TUM | evaSys |
| Instant messaging | Jabber | TUM | Jabber XMPP |
| Jabber | TUM | myTUM Jabber | |
| Wiki | TUM Wiki | TUM / LRZ | TUM Wiki |
| Document Processing | ShareLaTeX | TUM | ShareLaTeX |
Data sharing
| Type | Service name | Provider | Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud storage (synchronization over multiple devices and sharing with other persons) | Sync&Share | LRZ | Sync&Share |
| Data sharing | Gigamove | DFN | Gigamove |
| Public download (web) directory | NAS-Filer | LRZ | Info NAS |
| Online workgroup storage | TeamDrive | TeamDrive | Deutscher Cloudspeicher-Anbieter mit dem Datenschutz-Gütesiegel des Unabhängigen Landeszentrums für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein www.teamdrive.com/de/ |
Services that can be integrated into your website
| Type | Service name | Provider | Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forms | For those using a central Typo instance: e-mail forms from Typo3 Please note that these forms are supplied without https. A secure connection - in other words https - is required for collecting personal data however. Please use the below-named server if applicable. | TUM | TYPO3 |
| TUM webforms | TUM | www.it.tum.de/en/it/faq/communication-collaboration/forms/i-need-an-online-form-what-do-i-need-to-do/ | |
| Feedback/contact form: portal | TUM | Documentation | |
| Short URL | Short URLs for TUM, myTUM and MWN addresses | TUM | Short URLs |
| For those using a central TYPO3 instance: shortened URL in TYPO3 | TUM | typo3(at)tum.de | |
| Geodata/Maps | BayernAtlas | State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation | BayernAtlas |
| Open Street Map | OpenStreetMap Community | http://www.openstreetmap.org | |
| Video streaming service | Multimedia streaming server | LRZ | Video Server |