What is Group Office?
Group Office is an open source enterprise resource planning and collaboration software suite developed by Intermesh. It is designed to help enterprises manage relationships with customers, partners and suppliers (CRM), collaborate on projects, share documents, track time and expenses, manage contracts, tasks and projects and more.
Some of the key features and modules in Group Office include:
- CRM for managing contacts, organizations, sales funnels and calendars
- Project management with Gantt charts for planning and tracking projects
- Invoicing and online payments to bill clients
- Expenses to track employee spending
- Timesheets for tracking billable hours
- Documents and file management using online cloud storage
- Email, calendars and address book for communication and scheduling
- Advanced access controls and audit logging for security
Group Office uses a modular architecture so organizations can enable only the apps they need. It provides both a web interface, mobile apps and integrations with Outlook and other tools. Group Office Community edition is available as free open source software under the AGPL license. Paid enterprise editions include additional features, support and hosting options.
Overall, Group Office aims to provide an integrated collaboration and productivity suite tailored for the needs of modern enterprises. With its broad app ecosystem and extensibility options, it offers a full-featured alternative to proprietary systems like Microsoft Sharepoint or Office 365.
Salesforce, Pipedrive, Streak CRM, Mautic, SuiteCRM, Zoho CRM, SugarCRM, EspoCRM , insightly, Jetpack CRM, TealCRM, Docu Manager are some alternatives to Group Office.