Simple Groupware 0.641is well-known as an effective and professional source enterprise groupware that offers email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, project management, synchronization with Outlook and cell phones, full-text search, extensions and many more.
Simple Groupware is s free web based groupware solution written in PHP that combines standards like RSS, iCalendar, vCard, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CIFS, CSV, WebDAV, LDAP and SyncML under one platform.
Unlike other groupware software, Simple Groupware contains the programming language sgsML to enable the quick customization and creation of powerful web applications. Simple Groupware is Free Software, released under the GNU GPLv2 License.
All features are available in the open source package, there is no commercial edition. Also support and documentation are available for free.
Major Features:
General:
100% web-based application (no special client applications or plugins required)
Offline support for all modules and files directly inside the browser
Complete secure communication using SSL
Easy and intuitive user interface
One platform for managing, controlling and developing business processes
Autonomy: Simple Groupware is fully driven with open technologies
Individuality: All hierarchical organization structures and responsibilities can be represented and managed in the application
Intelligent knowledge management: e.g. find everything faster using phonetic fulltext search algorithms and automatic file / content indexing
Multi-language support including right-to-left layout
(Your help is welcome to provide more translations!)
Support for working in different time zones
Unicode: Simple Groupware fully supports Unicode characters using UTF-8
Low hardware requirements: shared-hosting and vServer is ok!
Notifications: get notified by E-mail or RSS when entries are created, changed or deleted, get reminders for appointments, tasks, birthdays, etc.
Content management with the PmWiki engine and Smarty templates
Mass edit for any subset of entries
All information can be easily sorted and filtered by any custom criteria
Support for MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQLite
Easy installation with a small single-file installer
Automatic update management for database structures
Integrated update procedure with just 4 clicks to update to the latest version
100% Open source: Free Software, released under the GPLv2, Free Support, Free Documentation, released under the GNU FDL.
Extensions: Similar to Firefox add-ons or mobile application stores, Simple Groupware contains an extension manager which allows you to:
Use free contributions from the open source community
Extend and customize Simple Groupware
Install extensions with 2 clicks
Get the functionality that best suits your needs
Personalization: Every user can:
Create his own folder structure
Create customizable overview pages
Integrate his own RSS feeds
Define individual notifications
Merge other (public) folders with his personal folders
Languages: Simple Groupware includes support for the following languages:
English
English (UK)
German
Brazil/Portuguese
Greek
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Ukrainian
French
Hungarian
Italian
Russian
Polish
Slovak
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Chinese (Simplified)
Arabic
Indonesian
Synchronization of contacts, tasks, notes and appointments: Integration with Funambol SyncML Server (push email, contacts, calendars, tasks, notes):
Synchronization using free SyncML clients on Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Outlook, Palm, iPod, iPhone, Gmail, Yahoo, Lotus Domino, Evolution, Thunderbird
Synchronization using a free JavaME client (supported by most newer phones from Motorola, Nokia and Sony Ericsson)
Also included: Builtin offline support for all HTML5 compatible browsers on any mobile phone or computer.
Security Features:
Download restriction for bad file extensions (.exe, .com, .hta, .cpl, etc.)
Automatic filter for bad HTML (Javascript, ActiveX, Java Applets, etc.) and Cross-site scripting (XSS)
Protection against new methods like Zero-Byte masking, Email header injection, Session hijacking, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Integrated Denial of Service (DoS) protection
IP blocking in case of too many bad login attempts
User authentication and possibility to prohibit non-SSL requests
Individual rights for every folder given to users and/or groups
Special algorithms and design to protect against SQL injections and Register_Globals attacks
All files can be automatically checked by a virus scanner (e.g. using BitDefender, McAfee, F-Prot, etc.)
Data Integration / Import: With Simple Groupware you can seamlessly integrate any existing infrastructure:
Keep your mail-system using IMAP, POP3 and SMTP accounts (including SSL/TLS)
Mail servers tested with Simple Groupware: Courier-IMAP, Cyrus IMAP, Dovecot, Postfix, qmail, Gmail, UW IMAP, hMailServer, MS Exchange
Integrate appointments from iCalendar files
Access your file-servers directly within Simple Groupware (e.g. Samba, Windows, NetApp)
Integrate contacts from vCard files, Thunderbird, Outlook, LDAP / Active Directory
Integrate news using RSS feeds
Integrate PmWiki page stores
Integrate Firefox bookmarks
Integrate data from CSV files using Simple Spreadsheet
Integrate and access data with the integrated SOAP server
View addresses with Google Maps or call contacts with Skype
Flexible User Authentication:
Keep your old system(s) and manage only one user database
Authenticate using built-in methods of Apache (e.g. Basic, NTLM, etc.)
Use NTLM (Single sign-on), LDAP (incl. groups), Active Directory (incl. groups), IMAP, POP3 and SMTP to authenticate users (including SSL/TLS)
User self registration (not enabled by default)
Others (like ODBC) can be added using the authentication api
Content Management:
Enterprise content management with the PmWiki engine and Smarty templates
Very easy and highly extendable Wiki markup
Individual templates for every page
Static caching: best performance for handling high traffic web sites
Multi-user authentication: individual permissions for every page, ideal for Intranets or Extranets pages
Media file management with Simple Groupware document management (incl. WebDAV server)
Full support for the PmWiki plugin architecture
Document Management: The files module makes it possible to share files, keep versions of files, manage folders with individual permissions for users/groups, etc. If required, permissions can be also set to single files as an addition to folder permissions. Files can be locked/unlocked for exclusive editing (checkin / checkout).
All kinds of documents can be managed centralized and secure
WebDAV server: map a drive letter in Windows explorer and create or edit files directly with any application on your desktop, including folder summaries in HTML and Excel as well as automatic versioning without manual check-in or check-out
Special text indexing algorithms and external converting tools offer automatically searching through MS Office and OpenOffice documents as well as PDF documents and media files (e.g. exif headers in images, id3 tags in mp3)
Typical files from Open Office and Microsoft Office can be previewed in the web-browser (.pdf, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .odt, .ods, .odp, .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.)
Typical images can be previewed in the web-browser (.tif, .bmp, .eps, etc.)
All files can be automatically checked by a virus scanner (e.g. using BitDefender, McAfee, F-Prot, etc.)
Files from existing file servers can be directly accessed (Samba, Windows, NetApp, etc.)
Custom meta data can be saved along with all kinds of files on an existing file server
Special handlers offer common file conversions (e.g. compressing, image manipulation)*
Drag-and-drop file upload (HTML5)
GUI components: The Simple Groupware user interface includes the following components:
TinyMCE: HTML editor, enabling WYSIWYG
Simple Spreadsheet: Spreadsheet editor and data import tool
EditArea: Code editor
Tigra Calendar: Date pickup
Customizing: The more individual you are, the more you will like Simple Groupware:
Customizing without overwriting files
Changes can be made persistent over updates
Theme support: layout customization of colors, text styles, etc.
Existing Modules can be expanded and fully customized using sgsML
(simple groupware solutions Markup Language = XML-based language for defining web applications at lowest expenses)
New Modules can be easily created using sgsML
New handlers for indexing, converting and previewing can be easily added using the file-handler api
Custom PHP functions can be used directly to display content
Layout can be customized with Smarty templates
Personal Knowledge Management: All your information is inside the head of your employees. Keep it there using:
Personal and global bookmark management
Individual composing of small notes
Add comments and extra files to your e-mails
Private, public and team calendars
Mark special entries with colors
Visualize diagrams with builtin support for Graphviz
Administrative Workflows: Administrative workflows can kill a lot of time and money. To reduce these costs you can:
Manage resources like rooms, computers, beamers, etc. inside one application
Administrate a complete IT-Support using the ticket-, resource- and inventory-system
Future: Represent all kinds of administrative workflows
System management:
Create and restore backups of folders
Manage open user sessions
View all kinds of system events (logins, performance and system problems)
Get statistics about page views, uploads, downloads, logins, etc.
View database processes, table sizes and status variables
Manage trashed contents (deleted datasets, deleted files)
Administrate the system with integrated SQL and system consoles (best practice for shared hosting)
Enhancements:
Added option to define differential sgsML schemas (see private_items extension)
Added option to install without demo folders
Changed Swedish date and time formats (thanks to Thomas Dilts)
Disabled persistent connections for SQLite (error HY000 17 database schema has changed)
Fixed department and project triggers
Requirements:
Operating system: Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, MacOS, etc.
Apache: 1.3.x or 2.x and higher / IIS 7 and higher
PHP: 5.1.x and higher
Database: at least MySQL 5, PostgreSQL 8.2, Oracle 9.2, SQLite 3.0
CPU: 1 GHz or more
RAM: 512 MB or more
Hard disk: 1 GB or more
File size: 5.4 MB
Platform: Windows All
License: GPL
Price:FREE
Publisher:Thomas Bley
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