Self-hosted collaboration, or cloud collaboration?

Element can be deployed self-hosted or as a fully hosted service.

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Self-hosted collaboration.

Element can be self-hosted on-premise or in a private cloud.

Self-hosting is ideally suited to governments and enterprises in regulated industries with the technical expertise and resources to self-host a deployment supporting more than 250 users.

Element is easy to install, manage, and keep up to date. We also provide customer support and a wide range of add-ons for additional functionality and different security postures.

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Homeservers

Customers using self-hosted Element.

Tchap
A secure messenger and collaboration platform for the French Government connecting more than 300,000 civil servants.

University of Innsbruck
Safe and inclusive university-wide real time communications, with security, collaboration and learning at its core.

Fully managed collaboration.

All the benefits of Element, hosted on your behalf as a fully managed service.

Choose between multi-tenant (from 50 seats) and single-tenant (from 500 seats) hosting, opt for custom DNS if required.

Data confidentiality is assured through end-to-end encryption. And with Matrix being an open standard, there's no vendor lock-in.

Fully managed enterprise functionality such as Single Sign-On, data retention policies, antivirus and data loss prevention (DLP).

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Clients
Homeservers

Customers using Element as a fully managed service.

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Forrester report featuring Element

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