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The New Open Source  Groupware Server Solution from Optimus using EGroupware

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When you need to work as a team, Optimus eGroupWare servers deliver a highly cost-effective business collaboration solution.

Help your staff communicate and co-operate

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Efficient information sharing is essential for effective work-team communications and a good groupware solution should provide a resource that encourages and helps this process.

Example Features

l_email Email
l_addressbook Shared Address Books
l_calendar Shared Calendar
l_timesheet Group Timesheets

Our eGroupWare servers come pre-built on an Open Source Ubuntu server, either as one of several virtual machines, or standalone and since eGroupWare is also Open Source, that means you have NO licence fees to pay!

We provide the pre-configuration that allows you to be up and running in no time at all.

eGroupWare is a worldwide leading multilingual Internet platform for effective team collaboration, central data and customer relationship management. It offers a rich variety of versatile, browser based applications, which function in an integrated structure. The software can be customised individually and is embedded easily into any IT landscape.

Team relevant business processes like task management, scheduling, address maintenance, file sharing, project planning, know-how transfer, documentation and email are consistently collected and interconnected on a Internet platform.

eGroupWare gives the freedom to integrate users and teams swiftly everywhere in the world, with a few mouse clicks.

A sophisticated user and group Access Rights Management reflects the security requirements of complex team collaboration structures. The result is an outstanding solution with regard to flexibility, functionality and security - easy to distribute and intuitive to use.

eGroupWare is a enterprise ready,  groupware software enabling you to manage contacts, appointments, todos and many other activities enterprise wide.

eGroupWare Server comes with a native web-interface which allow access your data from any platform, worldwide and from  your preferred groupware client (e.g. Kontact, Evolution, Outlook. etc) and also with your mobile or PDA via SyncML.

eGroupWare is platform independent. The server runs on Linux, Mac, Windows and many more other operating systems, however Optimus provide server installations primarily on Open Source Ubuntu Linux platforms, as we believe this provides our customers with the best value option.

Client Requirements

Internet browser such as Firefox, Konqueror, Internet Explorer etc.

Product Features in Detail

                                   

Features

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Task Management
'InfoLog' 

l_infolog

 

Create tasks and delegate to team members or groups
Link flexibly to other data types such as addresses, contacts, projects or attach any file by uploading to a task
Document task progress and follow status
Establish comprehensive selection criteria and perform full-text search
Be informed by getting Email notification and/or popup messages if status or content of task has been changed.

Team Calendar


l_calendar

 

Manage own and shared appointments
Send, accept and reject invitations
Allocate resources to an appointment
Use alarm and reminder functions
Link appointments to other data like contacts, tasks or attach files
Create selection criteria and perform full-text search
Use category or team view for managing your schedules optimally
Get Email notifications about any changes in your calendar

Contact Management

l_addressbook

Create multiple address books
View contacts and organisations easily by using filters and advanced search functionalities
Use categories and distribution lists to organise the address stock transparently
Import/Export address data material and fill documents automatically with contact data for e.g. marketing campaigns
Link contact data with any other kinds of EGroupware data like notes, tasks, projects or uploaded documents to create a powerful CRM view

Email

l_email

 

Complete email application for managing multiple identities and email accounts
Refer to addresses in contact management for composing emails efficiently
Share folders, create new folders, set filter rules, use multiple individual signatures, manage email forwarding and out of office messages (dependent on the email server capabilities)
Save emails as tasks.

File Mananger

l_filemanager

Use fully equipped web based file manager for sharing information and managing documents
Individual home data area for each user
Team folder for supporting data exchange optimally
Direct access to the file manager from the personal computer using WebDAV (web based distributed authoring and versioning)

Knowledge Management

l_knowledgebase

Share companies know howon the EGroupware platform
Publish any kind of information by releasing articles which contain descriptions, links to other information and attached files
Order articles by categories and classify them with search items

Wiki

l_wiki

 

Use the Wiki hypertext system to structure informationlike in the Internet Wikipedia
Wiki helps to organise knowledge and documentation in a interlinked structure of different wiki pages
Find content easily by index based full text search
Protect information by user and group rights on page level

News

l_news 

Publish news on a group specific level
Use EGroupware  News module as an intranet information system
Use filter and search options

Resources Management

l_resources

Document and manage resources
Book resources for appointments
Order resources by categories and custom fields

Project Management

l_projectmanager 

Create and manage hierarchical projects
Plan and manage staff and budgets
Set milestones
Create sub projects
Capture working hours and costs
Visualise project status and time line by Gantt chart
Use an extended user right system based on individual project roles
Create project templates for recurring procedures
Link contacts, tasks or any other kinds of information in EGroupware to the project.

Time Sheet

l_timesheet

Manage and audit working time documentation
Link time sheets to tasks, projects, contacts or any other kinds of information in EGroupware and classify them by categories
Analyse data by different time periods, use time sheets as base for invoicing or internal controlling purpose
Consolidate working time in the project manager by using the Time Sheet

Tracking System

l_trackingsystem 

Manage and audit service, maintenance, change management and any other kinds of processes which need a defined delegation structure and escalation procedures
Create functional areas (tracker queues) and types of tasks which has to be tracked
Define the delegation and escalation structure
Link tracker entries to InfoLog tasks, project management and time sheet module
Document working progress historically and additionally by predefined text modules
Print working receipts for filing

Polls

l_polls

Create polls and set answers individually
Assign the right to vote and to see the result of the poll to groups

General Functions 

 general_functions

Sophisticated user and group access control system on the level of each module
Order content by categorising and use different filters and full text search for finding information easily
Interlink data across the modules for providing information anywhere in the software
Individualise user interfaces by eTemplates
Use the multi-lingual capability of EGroupware for integrating international teams
Individualise the software by using module preferences on user level

 To find out more, phone Optimus today.

eGroupWare is available and published under the GNU licence agreement.

review  eGroupWare constitution here

 
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