Canadian alternatives

Canadian alternatives to Microsoft

6 Canadian options for specific Microsoft use cases — each one covers a particular need, not a complete replacement.

Technology

OpenText

Waterloo, ON

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Best for

Enterprise information management and cybersecurity

Canadian enterprise-software option for organizations replacing selected Microsoft content-management, information-governance and security tools.

Canadian enterprise software company focused on information management, content, cybersecurity and cloud services.

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  • Canadian-owned
  • Canadian-founded
  • HQ in Canada
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iotum / Callbridge

Toronto, ON

Partially verified

Best for

Video meetings and communications

Toronto communications platform that can replace part of Microsoft Teams for video, audio, webinars and messaging.

Toronto communications platform providing video, voice, messaging, webinars and white-label collaboration.

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  • Canadian-owned
  • Canadian-founded
  • HQ in Canada
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BlackBerry

Waterloo, ON

Partially verified

Best for

Enterprise cybersecurity and secure communications

Canadian enterprise-security provider that overlaps with parts of Microsoft's security and device-management stack.

Canadian enterprise software company focused on cybersecurity, secure communications and embedded systems.

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  • Canadian-owned
  • Canadian-founded
  • HQ in Canada
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1Password

Toronto, ON

Partially verified

Best for

Identity and password management

Canadian-founded security platform that can replace selected Microsoft password and credential-management functions.

Canadian-founded password manager and identity-security platform.

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  • Canadian-owned
  • Canadian-founded
  • HQ in Canada
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Jostle

Vancouver, BC

Partially verified

Best for

Employee intranet and internal communications

Vancouver employee intranet and internal-communications platform for distributed organizations. It is a narrower Canadian substitute to Microsoft specifically for employee intranet and internal communications, not the full platform.

Vancouver employee intranet and internal-communications platform for distributed organizations.

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  • HQ in Canada
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