What is Synology Office Suite?

Synology Office Suite is an on-premise office suite and private cloud productivity platform built into Synology NAS devices. It combines document creation, spreadsheets, presentations, professional email, calendars, chat, contacts, and note-taking into a single, self-hosted workspace that gives organizations complete data ownership and control. As part of the broader Synology productivity stack, it centers on Synology Office for collaborative Documents, Spreadsheets, and Slides, Synology Drive for file access and sharing, MailPlus for business email, Calendar for scheduling, Chat for messaging, Contacts for directory management, and Note Station for notes. Synology reports millions of total users across business and enterprise deployments, with companies of all sizes using Synology Office Suite as a cost-efficient alternative to public cloud office suites.

Originally introduced in 2015 as Synology Spreadsheet, a real-time collaborative spreadsheet tool, the product quickly expanded to include document authoring and presentation creation. Over the years, Synology Office evolved into a full office suite tightly integrated with Synology Drive, and has since been packaged as Synology Office Suite together with communication tools like MailPlus and Chat. Recent releases have added AI-powered assistance for drafting content, translating text, analyzing data, and generating formulas, while preserving the core promise: deliver essential productivity tools in a private cloud, without per-user licenses or recurring subscription fees.