bit.fusion}david http://www.bitfusion.org my binary bits and pieces. Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:36:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Groupware & Collaboration Plattforms http://www.bitfusion.org/2008/10/15/groupware-collaboration-plattforms/ http://www.bitfusion.org/2008/10/15/groupware-collaboration-plattforms/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:06:09 +0000 david http://www.bitfusion.org/blog/?p=8 Some month ago I’ve evaluated a few collaboration systems for the organization Austrian Service Abroad with the aim to improve organization and communication. In this day and age there are so many options. Whether working with computers, smart phones (O2 Priority), messenger systems or the like, you can adapt and tailor the systems to better suit your goals. This is important for company efficiency and productivity. Especially to get rid of Email as the only way for information exchange and for project-based tasks. You have to consider that the focus was not project management in the first place but some basic features needed were:

  • Integrated Email Management
  • Contact Management
  • Forum
  • Simple Documentmanagement
  • Linklists or uncategorized information

Group Office

+ Forum extension
+ Big community in Austria and Japan
+ Calendar provides iCal support
+ friendly, clear user interface
+ Projectmanagement feature
+ Notes
+ German language support
+ Common folder to share data between users

Group Office Screenshot


phpGroupWare

+ Forum
+ Huuuge feature & extension base
+ Extensive projectmanagement
+ Knowledgebase (for e.g. glossary)
- Insufficient file management, no filetypes – No WYSIWYG editor (!)
- Quite confusing UI (e.g. messenger) and partly ineffectual implemented


 eGroupWare (Fork of phpGroupWare)

- No forum
- Very project management aligned
- No WYSIWYG editor and existing editor lacks of functionality

eGroupWare Screenshot


PHProjekt

+ Incredible feature set (Even chat via web browser)
- Nerdy UI with endless long forms is definitely not very sexy
- Cross browser issues: Context menu doesn’t work correctly in Firefox
- Filemanagement very cumbersome

PHProjekt Screenshot


dotproject

+ iCal export
+ Files can be attached to tasks
+ Outboard, for managing
+ Quite simple UI (colours could be improved)
- No Email management. Emails have to be send via an external client
- File creation via upload only

dotproject Screenshot


phpCollap

- No live demo found
- Not modular (at the moment)
- Early project state

moreGroupWare

+ “Outlook like” Email management
+ Problems on Mac
+ Early release (0.7.4)
- Login problems with some browsers (FF 2/Mac)
- No WYSIWYG Editor, plain text files only

moreGroupWare Screenshot

In the end the big code & user base of Group Office and the fact that it met all our requirements from the beginning made a clear winner. Please note: that the listed projects may have been updated in the meantime and features may have changed.

Additional Sources:
List of collaborative software (Wikipedia)

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Note: The previous version (v0.1.3) introduced a new feature to configure the thumbnail size of your photos which is not included in the original one.

kPicasa Gallery PHP4MOD Options

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