Open Source Groupware Software
Comparison of the Best Online Groupware Software
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Collaborative applications, also known as groupware software, are
designed to ease and integrate the work on a project, contributed by
several users, working on diferrent workstations. Groupware are quite
useful tools but it is difficult to convince people to use it. In order
to implement it within your company, you would need to train people how
to use it, for if they feel uncomfortable with it, they won't use it.
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Once you have decided to use groupware software, here comes the dilemma:
which groupware tool to choose for your web site? In this article we
will compare three of the best free groupware tools: dotProject,
eGroupware and phpGroupware.
dotProject
dotProject is an Open Source Project
Management application, supported
free of charge by web developers
from all over the world. dotProject
is written in PHP and is free to
anyone who would like to download
and use it. It is easy to work with
DotProject because it has clean and
simple user interface.
DotProject core features include:
User Management;
Ticketing Support System provided
via email;
Client Management;
File Archive;
Calendar
Discussion Forum;
SiteGround.com offers free
installation of dotProject on your
website. Start up your dotProject
website here.
eGroupWare
eGroupWare is an Open Source enterprise groupware application, which
will help your team collaborate much easier with each other. With
eGroupware you will be able to manage your business contacts, meetings
and appointments, todo schedules and many more for your whole business.
eGroupWare is a server-based tool. It has its own web-interface and you
are able to access your data from any platform all over the planet.
eGroupWare is also accessible via groupware clients, such as Kontact,
Evolution, Outlook and also with your mobile or PDA via SyncML.
With SiteGround eGroupware hosting services you can have free
installation of eGroupware on your website.
phpGroupWare
phpGroupWare is a PHP-based, multi-user groupware application. It
integrates about 50 web-based tools, such as Calendar, Addressbook,
advanced Projects manager, Todo List, Notes, Email, Newsgroup- and
Headlines Reader, Filemanager, etc. The calendar supports repeating
events and will alarm you for the upcoming events.
The phpGroupware system as a whole supports user and admin preferences,
themes manager, user permissions and groups and multi-language support.
It includes modules to setup and modify the working environment. The
phpGroupware suite is built on an advanced Application Programming
Interface (API).
With SiteGround phpGroupware hosting services you can have an affordable
professional installation of phpGroupware on your
website.
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