Celebrating 10 Years of Productivity
Ten Years of Getting Things Done Synology powers it, and Epis Technology delivers it
Over the past ten years, productivity tools have quietly become one of the biggest sources of data exposure, ongoing costs, and operational problems for businesses. In 2015, Synology started to work on this problem by releasing a simple tool for working together on spreadsheets. Ten years later, that project has turned into the Synology Office Suite, a productivity platform that millions of people around the world use on their own computers.
Epis Technology helps businesses that want to take advantage of this change by replacing or adding to their cloud-hosted productivity tools with secure, private, and cost-predictable Synology Office deployments that meet today’s data protection and compliance standards.
From simple collaboration tools to a full suite of productivity tools
It took time for Synology Office to come out. What began as a real-time spreadsheet app slowly grew to include calendars, mail, chat, presentations, documents, and collaboration tools, all of which worked well with Synology Drive and DiskStation Manager.
Synology has added more advanced features over the years, like pivot tables, APIs, workflow improvements, and AI-assisted tools. Epis Technology helps companies use these features in a way that meets their actual needs, whether they are for engineering teams, administrative staff, or regulated environments where external cloud platforms are not allowed.
Epis Technology doesn’t force businesses to use an all-or-nothing cloud model. Instead, it positions Synology Office as a flexible, private option that can work with or slowly replace traditional SaaS productivity platforms.
Changing the Basics of Productivity
For convenience, many companies switched to public cloud productivity suites, but they later found that they had to give up some control over their data, deal with more complicated compliance issues, and pay more for each user license. Epis Technology often works with companies that are growing and see their costs going up faster than the value of their employees.
Synology Office focuses on what most teams really need: the ability to work together in real time, share files easily, access files from any browser, and have reliable performance. Epis Technology helps businesses figure out where Synology Office can meet their daily needs without making it harder to use or putting more work on IT.
Synology Office is often more than enough for reports, documentation, planning, and working together for internal teams. It also gives them much better control over where data is stored and how it is protected.
Not a policy, but a design for data privacy
Data privacy is one of the main reasons companies choose Epis Technology for Synology Office deployments. Synology Office, on the other hand, stores data on infrastructure that the organization owns and controls.
Epis Technology creates storage, backup, and access systems that keep documents, email, chat, and collaboration data on-site or in approved private spaces. The organization decides where backups go, how long they stay there, and how they are replicated. A third-party provider does not.
This way of thinking also applies to AI features. Synology Office has optional generative AI features, but Epis Technology makes sure they are set up to meet security and regulatory standards. Companies can either send AI workloads to approved OpenAI-compatible systems or keep all of their AI processing in-house. Additional features like OCR and speech-to-text are processed locally, which keeps your data private and lowers the risk of it being exposed.
Productivity Without Licensing Limits for Each User
Epis Technology often sees uneven access to productivity tools as a problem in manufacturing, healthcare, and distributed organizations. Not every worker needs to be able to write, but a lot of them still need to be able to get to documents, training materials, schedules, and internal communications.
Cost is often a barrier to access with traditional per-user licensing models. Synology Office gets rid of this problem. When installed on Synology storage, Synology Drive and Office can be used by as many people as needed without charging extra for each seat.
Epis Technology helps businesses create access models that let all employees see what they need to see while still enforcing role-based permissions and security controls.
Getting Ready for the Next Ten Years of Working Together
Tens of millions of people now use Synology Office and Drive, and the platform keeps getting better. Epis Technology works closely with clients to get ready for new features like semantic search, which lets people find content using natural language instead of file names.
This is especially useful for companies with teams that speak more than one language, big shared repositories, or big media libraries. Epis Technology helps add these features to current workflows without causing any problems.
Synology Office will become even more of a complete private collaboration suite in 2026 with the addition of tools like Synology ChatPlus and Synology Meet. Epis Technology helps businesses test, evaluate, and roll out these tools as part of a larger plan to cut down on their reliance on SaaS, keep costs down, and improve data ownership.
Epis Technology: Your Partner in Productivity Platforms
Synology Office is more than just a group of apps; it’s a platform. Epis Technology has the skills needed to design, set up, protect, and support that platform in real-world business settings.
Epis Technology makes sure that organizations get long-term value from Synology’s productivity ecosystem by helping them with everything from storage architecture and backup strategy to access control, compliance alignment, and user adoption. Epis Technology makes Synology Office a safe, scalable alternative for businesses that want to rethink how they work together, keep their data private, and keep costs down.