The Smile Group and Nextcloud announce a new strategic partnership. This agreement aims to develop robust and secure European solutions, guaranteeing the digital autonomy and sovereignty of businesses. Discover the reasons for this collaboration and the opportunities it offers for your digital workspace.

We are delighted to announce the conclusion of a major strategic partnership between the Smile Group, European leader in open source integration, and Nextcloud, one of the international leaders in self-hosted collaborative content platforms.

This agreement, signed at the Nextcloud Enterprise Day on December 9, 2025 in Paris, marks a decisive step in our joint commitment to greater digital sovereignty and autonomy in Europe.

A shared open-source DNA

For Smile, open source is much more than a technology : it's an approach at the heart of technological advancements and an asset for empowering our clients to take control of their information systems. We share this same DNA with Nextcloud: offering open source solutions that give control to users , rather than locking them into proprietary, often non-European, ecosystems.

This partnership stems from a desire to concretely address the urgent need for robust and secure digital alternatives in the digital workspace market . We are combining Nextcloud's collaborative platform, renowned for its security and versatility, with our long-standing expertise in large-scale open-source integration projects. In doing so, we are creating a European offering that guarantees autonomy and digital sovereignty for our clients .

Jean-Philippe Balança, International Director of the Smile group, emphasizes this point:

Faced with sovereignty challenges, we are committed to providing sustainable and operational digital solutions. Our partnership with Nextcloud is a critical step in realizing this commitment, particularly in building the workplace of tomorrow .

A privileged partnership with Nextcloud

As part of this agreement, the Smile Group is proud to become one of the preferred partners for the large-scale deployment of Nextcloud solutions in the French-speaking European market.

Our role will be twofold:

• Ensuring operational excellence . We will leverage our expertise in major enterprise projects and our ability to meet the stringent requirements of sovereign support, essential for our key account clients.
• Contributing to innovation . We are committed to actively enriching the Nextcloud ecosystem to stimulate mutual growth and technological advancements.

For Frank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud, this collaboration is a natural fit:

Smile's expertise in large-scale open source integration makes them the ideal partner to guarantee the level of sovereignty required by our clients, especially large companies .

The digital workspace of tomorrow is already here.

Our agility and focus on optimal user experience will enable companies to ensure a successful transition to a truly sovereign new workspace, meeting the needs of European businesses.

This partnership between Smile and one of the most influential platform providers proves that it's possible to combine respect for the principles of digital autonomy, the technical excellence of open source, and the demands of European customers. Digital autonomy isn't a distant dream; it's built through concrete and resilient projects. That's what we're doing, together with Nextcloud, for the digital workspace of tomorrow.

To learn more about Nextcloud solutions and integration possibilities through Smile, contact our teams now.