Google Workspace alternative: PORTWARE
Google Workspace is Google's suite of e-mail, docs and spreadsheet apps. If you are looking for a system that runs every process in one place, speaks Turkish and adapts to your company, instead of or alongside Google Workspace, consider PORTWARE.
For companies looking to replace or complement Google Workspace, PORTWARE is a web-based business management system that runs every process, including documents, office files, wiki pages and version history, in one place. It is built on the world's most widely used open-source business-management core, speaks Turkish and English, is ready for Turkish e-invoicing, is tailored to your company and keeps its database on your own server. You can move one process at a time.
See it in the product
Each film walks one application's pages and shows what it gives you, in about two minutes.
Teams searching for Google Workspace usually have files scattered across e-mail attachments and shared folders, with no clear latest version. In PORTWARE the quotation template sits on the quotation, the specification on the project and the drawing on the product, and every change leaves a version.
Documents carry the rights of their record: whoever cannot see the record cannot see the document. Cowork AI can read and summarise what is inside.
The first question a company using Google Workspace asks about PORTWARE is its data: customers, products, stock and open balances move with import templates, and processes are set up and tried in a demo account first.
You do not have to switch everything at once. Most companies start with one process (for example sales and quotations, or projects) and move the others into the same system later.
What you get with PORTWARE
- Word, Excel and presentation files in the browser, edited together (PORTWARE Office)
- Every save is a version; differences cell by cell, and restore
- A Notion-style knowledge base: nested pages, variables (SOTION)
- Editable draw.io diagrams in any text (SODRAW)
- Documents on the quotation, project or product they belong to
- Attachment folders, archive and access rights
PORTWARE at a glance
- Product
- PORTWARE — Productive Business Management System: fully integrated and web-based; ERP, CRM, manufacturing, PLM, quality, projects, finance, HR, documents, office and AI on one platform
- Maker
- PORTWARE
- Core
- The world's most widely used open-source business-management core (LGPL-3) — open schema
- Access
- Browser and mobile; nothing to install on the client
- Hosting
- On your own server or on PORTWARE's
- Languages
- Turkish and English interface, documents and reports
- Compliance
- Turkish e-Invoice, e-Archive, e-Waybill and the uniform chart of accounts installed
- Office
- Word, Excel and presentation files in the browser, on the record, co-edited; versioned, differences cell by cell (PORTWARE Office)
- AI
- Cowork AI on every screen; the company picks the provider and model with its own keys
- Integration
- REST and XML-RPC API, Excel/CSV import and export
Frequently asked questions
Can I edit Word and Excel files in the browser?
Yes. With PORTWARE Office, Word, Excel and presentation files open in the browser and several people edit at once.
Is version history kept?
Yes. Every save leaves a revision; the differences between two versions show cell by cell and an old one can be restored.
Can we run an internal wiki?
Yes. SOTION provides a knowledge base with nested pages, a variable system and status labels.
What is PORTWARE's licence model — is there a per-user fee?
PORTWARE's core is the world's most widely used open-source (LGPL-3) business-management core; the modules PORTWARE writes are licensed LGPL-3. No closed-source per-user licence fee is required. The cost is in setup, tailoring, training and support services, quoted to your scope.
Where is our data kept, and whose server is it on?
The database runs wherever you want it: on your own server or on one PORTWARE manages. The schema is open and the whole dataset can be exported at any time. Backups are taken daily and kept on a separate server.
Does it integrate with the other programs we use?
Yes. PORTWARE exposes REST and XML-RPC APIs and talks to banks, e-invoice providers, e-commerce and shop-floor systems through them. For bulk data, Excel/CSV import and export is available on every screen.
How are training and support provided?
The system ships its own handbook, application guides and per-screen help. On top of that PORTWARE trains the team during go-live and provides upgrades and support afterwards.
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