i-sense is a web based groupware solution mainly targeting small and medium-sized business

Small and medium enterprise

Small and medium enterprises or small and medium-sized enterprises are companies whose headcount or turnover falls below certain limits.The abbreviation "SME" occurs commonly...

. i-sense is designed as a modular platform product including solution packages for Customer relationship management

Customer relationship management

Customer relationship management is a widely implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing,...

 (CRM) and Enterprise resource planning

Enterprise resource planning

Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...

 (ERP).
The latest version "r.2" was released in July 2007. Users can run the software on their own server infrastructure or purchase it on-demand as an ASP

Application service provider

An application service provider is a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network. Software offered using an ASP model is also sometimes called On-demand software or software as a service ....

 solution.

Organizer

• Task Management
• Calendar and Appointments
• Follow-Up
• Notes
• Links and Bookmarks
• People- and Company Contacts

Collaboration

• eMail Client POP3/IMAP
• RSS News Reader
• Bulletin Board (Forum)
• File Management with Revision Control

Enterprise Resources

• Archive Management and Filing
• Inventory Management and Stock Calculation
• Ordering System and Procurement
• Supplier Management

Customer Relations

• Case Management and Ticket System
• Opportunity Management
• Contract Management
• Tendering and Billing
• Campaign Management
• Customer Management

Users can write and add their own modules using the i-sense programming language iXML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

 or PHP

PHP

PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

 5 and integrate those into their own i-sense-systems.

Technology

i-sense is programmed in PHP

PHP

PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

 5 and can be installed on every Apache

Apache HTTP Server

The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to as Apache , is web server software notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. In 2009 it became the first web server software to surpass the 100 million website milestone...

 or IIS

Internet Information Services

Internet Information Services – formerly called Internet Information Server – is a web server application and set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows. It is the most used web server after Apache HTTP Server. IIS 7.5 supports HTTP, HTTPS,...

 web server

Web server

Web server can refer to either the hardware or the software that helps to deliver content that can be accessed through the Internet....

. It supports MySQL

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

, PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...

, Oracle Database

Oracle Database

The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....

 and MS SQL

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...

. As a web based product i-sense can be accessed through the internet using any common web browser

Web browser

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...

 (e.g. Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer

Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year...

, Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers...

, Opera

Opera (web browser)

Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by Opera Software with over 200 million users worldwide. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC, downloading files via BitTorrent,...

, Safari

Safari (web browser)

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included with the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Safari is also the...

 or Konqueror

Konqueror

Not to be confused with the Conqueror web browser.Konqueror is a web browser and file manager that provides file-viewer functionality for file systems such as local files, files on a remote ftp server and files in a disk image. It is a core part of the KDE desktop environment...

) with no additional software required. The webfrontend of the clients is designed using Ajax

Ajax (programming)

Ajax is a group of interrelated web development methods used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications...

.

Licensing/Editions

i-sense is offered in two different product-bundles

Product bundling

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.

• Community Edition: The Community Edition can be used for private purposes and by non commercial organizations. It is free of charge and contains the packages Organizer and Collaboration for up to 50 users.

• Groupware Suite: The i-sense Groupware Suite is mainly targeting enterprises and commercial users. Three user licenses for all packages are already included and it is not limited in the maximum number of users. The price is determined by the number of users and the chosen modules.

External links

• Official website