About Simple Groupware & CMS

Simple Groupware & Content Management System is a complete open source enterprise groupware offering email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, synchronization with cell phones and Outlook, full-text search and many more.

Simple Groupware combines standards like RSS, iCalendar, vCard, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CIFS, CSV, WebDAV, LDAP and SyncML under one platform.

Simple Groupware features the latest aspects concerning collaboration, document management, event-driven notification, information sharing, knowledge management, helpdesk and customer relationship management, accounting and project management. Simple Groupware is a free groupware written in PHP.

Unlike other PHP or Java groupware applications, 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.

Simple Groupware Solutions is a small German one-man company, founded in September 2003. The business domain is focused on individual services and software development. Simple Groupware is developed in my free time and offered to you for free.


"simple" means:

  • simple installation (only one form)
  • simple update (just copy the files)
  • simple usage (all modules share a consistent look & feel)
  • simple to adapt to your needs (see sgsML)
  • but not simple in functionality


With Simple Groupware web applications:

  • can be created much faster
  • are easier to maintain
  • contain less errors
  • are easier to write
  • are much smaller in size
  • feature a consistent look


With Simple Groupware You can:

  • build powerful web applications in minutes
  • change web applications in seconds
  • decrease time for implementing and deploying
    web applications by a factor 10, compared to the usual solutions
  • keep costs for maintenance and change
    management to a new minimum