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Use Cases

Sync-in can be deployed across a wide range of professional environments, adapting to organizational, operational, and technical constraints.

🏛️ Public sector & administrations​

  • Compartmentalized collaborative spaces for departments, services, or administrative scopes.
  • Manager visibility over files, members, permissions, shares, and child shares.
  • Self-hosted instances with LDAP/OIDC integration and MFA options for identity policies.

🔧 Industry, engineering & construction​

  • Scheduled synchronization of project folders with transfer resume and conflict strategies.
  • Local access to technical files from desktop clients and field workstations.
  • Guests, personal groups, and scoped shares for contractors and project partners.

🩺 Healthcare, research & scientific data​

  • Full-text search and optional OCR for PDFs, Office files, and scanned research documents.
  • External server directories attached to research spaces without duplicating source data.
  • Space quotas and usage tracking for laboratories, studies, or project repositories.

⚖️ Legal, law firms & notaries​

  • Matter or client workspaces with member-specific add, edit, delete, and share permissions.
  • Protected external links with access limits, expiration, password, and access count.
  • Commented reviews, activity tracking, and Collabora/OnlyOffice editing with file locking.

🧰 IT, audit & security​

  • Server administration and operations via Docker Compose or the NPM server CLI.
  • Revocable clients and application passwords for WebDAV, desktop, and CLI access.
  • CLI automation with dry-run reports, debug logs, scheduled runs, and multi-server support.

🌍 NGOs, field operations & disconnected environments​

  • Offline work on synchronized folders, with updates sent when connectivity returns.
  • Lightweight self-hosted deployment with optional services enabled only when needed.
  • Field access through WebDAV-compatible mobile apps and native file explorers.