Open Source Business Groupware Tine 2.0 Lara (2009/02) released

Packages and online demo available on the Tine 2.0 projects first birthday
- Timetracking and ActiveSync support added
- Enhanced Productivity

Hamburg – 2009/02/28 The Tine 2.0[1] project releases version Lara (2009/02) of their open source online software on its first birthday. As such, the second stable version of Tine 2.0 is ready for download[2] exactly one year after the split from the eGroupWare project.

“We are proud to present a new version of our software already tree month after our last stable release. The range of services has been increased dramatically not at last thanks to the massive positive and encouraging feedback from the community.”
quoting Lars Kneschke, the initiator of the Project.

With the new Time-Tracking-Module, Tine 2.0 now comes with a simple but powerful tool for company wide time sheet acquisition and analysis. The tool is designed with special care on easy creation of new time sheets one the one hand, but extensive features for accounting and controlling on the other hand. Easy acquisition of time sheets is important to get contemporary and precise accounting information, whereas detailed examination of the informations increases productivity in controlling and accounting departments.

To synchronise address data, a ActiveSync-Service has been added. With this, all current business mobile phones can obtain their address book from the Tine 2.0 server. In contrast to other solutions, where synchronisation must be triggered manually, the ActiveSync approach comes with PUSH capability. ontacts and tasks with mobile devices. As an outstanding feature, this ActiveSync service has the capability for PUSH actions.

Besides the new modules, the new version has a lot productivity enhancements for Users having to deal with large amount of data. The filter ability where greatly improved and features to save filter setting are implemented. With this the creation of dynamic lists is now possible. More over a new feature called mass update has been added to allow the simultaneous update of certain properties for a whole list of data at once.

With this release of Lara (2009/02) the project direcly starts to work on the next major version Leonie (2009/06). The release of this version is scheduled for the German Linux-Tag in Berlin this year. The Tine 2.0 project asks the community for agile contribution on usability tests for instance to reach this ambitious goal.

A complete list of further enhancements and highlights as well as bug fixes can be found in the changelog[3].

Links
[1] http://www.tine20.org/
[2] http://www.tine20.org/download/
[3] http://www.tine20.org/bugtracker/changelog_page.php

What is Tine 2.0?
Tine 2.0 is a web based online groupware system, based on free and open sources which is sponsored by the german IT-company Metaways Infosystems GmbH. The system leads to a more efficient business organisation and communication: Contacts, appointments, tasks and other relevant information can be approved, shared, distributed and appreciated easily.
The extraordinary easy to use interface eases workday life and is implemented as a 'Rich Internet Application' which runs in all modern web-browsers.
The Server component is build as a service provider which serves the build in web-client as well as other service clients by its open APIs.
Tine 2.0 was started by former eGroupWare core developers who now work fulltime on Tine 2.0.

Metaways Infosystems GmbH
Metaways is a full IT service provider with its main location in Hamburg (Germany). Spread out among several data centers, Metaways provides highly available internet sites and business software for customers in Germany and abroad as well. About 50 experienced computer specialists supply software applications, shop systems, CMS and Typo3 solutions, constantly focusing on usability, security and scalability.

Contact for Tine 2.0
Cornelius Weiss
Metaways Infosystems GmbH
Pickhuben 2-4
20457 Hamburg
Tel: +49 (0)40 317031-45
Fax: +49 (0)40 317031-945
E-Mail: c.weiss@metaways.de
Web: www.metaways.de

This release was published on openPR.