Nextcloud adds Euro-Office to Hub workplace suite, expands AI assistant

10/06 08:15 - Nextcloud adds Euro-Office to Hub workplace suite, expands AI assistant
MUNICH — Nextcloud has integrated Euro-Office into its workplace application suite, one of several updates to Nextcloud Hub unveiled on Tuesday that include a new compliance app for large organizations and a program to support developers building for its platform. The announcements came during the company’s Nextcloud Summit 2026 here. Euro-Office, announced in March, is billed as an open source, sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office for European organizations keen to reduce their reliance on US tech providers. It consists of four browser-based applications: a document editor, spreadsheet program, presentation tool, and a PDF editor — each enabling collaborative editing. Euro-Office documents can also be opened directly from the Nextcloud Files mobile app. Nextcloud is one of several European companies that support Euro-Office, which is built on the open-source code base of OnlyOffice and distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL v3). The integraton means Nextcloud users can now choose between two options in Nextcloud Office: Euro-Office and the existing Collabora integration.  “Euro-Office uses a different architectural approach that can result in a better performance in the browser, a different user experience…, so it’s important that this option is available,” Jos Poortvliet, Nextcloud co-founder and vice president of communications, said at the Tuesday event. Other changes in the Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring release include updates to Nextcloud‘s Talk video and voice meeting app, including AI noise suppression and the ability to start a call from any Nextcloud Hub app – an addition that will make collaborative editing easier, said Poortvliet.  For Nextcloud Assistant, there are new AI agent capabilities. In addition to existing capabilities such as managing calendars and tasks, AI agents can now create cards in Nextcloud’s Deck task management app and update information in the Forms app. There are also improvements to the AI assistant’s interface, which can be moved around to avoid blocking other applications and allow users to copy and paste text more easily without opening another tab. To meet EU AI Act requirements, Nextcloud will make it easier to see which  provider supplies the large language model (LLM) the Assistant runs on. Nextcloud will also integrate the AI assistant directly into its Nextcloud Office suites via a sidebar chat interface, allowing users to address problems such as errors in the spreadsheet app. NextCloud’s AI chat assistant is integrated into the company’s Office suites.NextCloud There’s also a new Governance app that helps large organizations — particularly governments and highly regulated industries — meet regulatory requirements with compliance tools to manage data held in Nextcloud Hub. It contains several features,  including sensitivity labels to control access rights; data retention and archive capabilities; and a legal hold option that preserves documents for legal purposes such as a court case. The Governance app includes a Compliance Manager that provides a compliance score based on an organization’s regulatory requirements, and measures progress towards certain targets. Admins can also search and review documents shared by employees and generate audit reports for compliance. The Governance app is available to Nextcloud Enterprise customers. Nextcloud also launched a program to support independent software providers interested in building apps on its platform.  With AI making it easier for developers to build software that integrates with its platform, Nextcloud expects a 10-fold increase in the number of available apps — from 600 now to 6,000 over the next 12 months, according to Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek. Nextcloud promised to promote apps developed by partners in its App Store and sell subscriptions as part of the ISV program, as well as provide documentation and technical help to customers. In return, developers would provide guarantees to customers around security processes and long-term support. “We can strengthen our ecosystem, the developers also make some money — because obviously we do a revenue share here — and we leverage the dynamics that we expect from AI coming very soon,” said Karlitschek. Editor’s note: NextCloud paid for Matthew Finnegan’s travel and hotel costs for NextCloud Summit 2026, but had no editorial role in the creation of this story. ...