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- Anne-Sophie Duport
- August 18, 2026
eXo Platform and idruide Tackle a Key Barrier to Moving Beyond Microsoft 365
Partnership combines an open source digital workplace with European sovereign endpoint management
Paris, August 18, 2026 – eXo Platform, the French provider of open source digital workplace solutions, and idruide, a European specialist in unified endpoint management, today announce a strategic partnership designed to address a key challenge for organizations looking to move beyond Microsoft 365: deploying and managing alternative applications across employees’ devices.
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By integrating eXo Platform with the multi-OS and sovereign idruide Sparkle platform, IT teams can centrally deploy, configure and update applications across heterogeneous device fleets. The partnership provides organizations with a European technology stack spanning the entire digital workplace environment, from collaboration and communication tools to endpoint management.
Breaking free from Microsoft 365 dependency
As organizations reassess their reliance on major technology platforms, moving away from Microsoft 365 increasingly involves more than replacing email, productivity and collaboration tools. It also means addressing the infrastructure used to deploy and manage those alternatives.
Even after replacing Microsoft 365 applications, organizations may remain dependent on proprietary endpoint management platforms such as Microsoft Intune to deploy, configure and maintain their new software.
The partnership between eXo Platform and idruide addresses this often-overlooked challenge by bringing together two complementary European technologies: an open source digital workplace and a unified endpoint management platform.
“ Organizations are looking to regain greater control over their technology choices. This partnership allows them to separate their choice of collaboration environment from the platform used to manage their endpoints. They gain greater freedom, flexibility and digital sovereignty, ”
Veronika Mazour-Mestrallet
CEO of eXo Platform
Simplifying and scaling the deployment of collaboration tools
The idruide platform enables IT teams to automate the deployment of eXo Platform’s collaborative applications, apply configurations based on user profiles, and manage the full application lifecycle, from installation and updates to removal, through a centralized interface.
The partnership supports the deployment of eXo Platform and its core collaboration capabilities, including communication, messaging and document collaboration. It is designed to help organizations roll out their digital workplace progressively across their entire device estate.
The integration also strengthens the Live Collaboration ecosystem by addressing a critical operational requirement: deploying and managing collaboration applications across users’ devices at scale.
The solution is particularly relevant for organizations managing diverse IT and mobile environments across multiple operating systems, including public administrations, local authorities, educational institutions and multi-site businesses pursuing digital modernization or sovereignty strategies.
“ Endpoint management should never be a barrier to choosing the right collaboration tools. Through this partnership, organizations can deploy their collaboration applications across heterogeneous environments while maintaining centralized, simple and secure management, ”
Jérôme Badiou
President and CEO of idruide France
Giving IT teams back control
By decoupling the choice of collaboration platform from endpoint management, the partnership gives IT teams greater control and flexibility over how their digital workplace evolves.
Organizations can adopt and roll out new tools progressively by location, user group or according to operational requirements, without having to undertake a disruptive, all-at-once transformation.
The partnership also creates new opportunities for system integrators, IT service providers and managed service providers supporting organizations through digital transformation and migration projects. They can now address the full technology chain, from selecting the collaboration platform to deploying and managing applications across end-user devices.
About eXo Platform
eXo Platform is a french provider of open source and sovereign digital workplace solutions, helping organizations build secure, flexible and collaborative work environments for more than 20 years.
Its platform brings communication, collaboration, knowledge management and employee engagement together in a unified experience, enhanced by trusted and governed AI.
eXo Platform serves more than one million users and numerous customers across France and internationally, including the Élysée Palace (French Presidency), Inria, the Occitanie Region, Schiever, Groupe Gilbert, Mutavie, the State of Schleswig-Holstein’s Ministry of Social Affairs in Germany, and the U.S. Department of Defense.
As an open source and sovereign alternative to proprietary platforms such as Microsoft 365 and its Copilot AI assistant, eXo Platform gives organizations the freedom to deploy and operate their digital workplace according to their own requirements, whether in the cloud or on-premises.
Website : eXo Platform
About idruide
Developed by French company idruide, the idruide Sparkle platform provides a unified and sovereign approach to managing devices, identities and application content from a single environment.
Supporting multiple operating systems including Android, Windows, Apple, ChromeOS and Linux and a wide range of devices, from smartphones and tablets to laptops, desktops and interactive digital boards, idruide has been helping more than 350 public- and private-sector organizations manage their digital environments for over 10 years.
Hosted in France, idruide solutions meet demanding cybersecurity and compliance requirements, including GDPR, the Visa Cloud certification issued by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, and Security Assurance Plans.
Website : idruide
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