Use
The free software ecosystem offers countless solutions and applications for modern software development. Without the use of free software, modern software development is no longer imaginable. You can find free software in almost all modern software products. The importance and influence of free software on software development is therefore indispensable and undeniable.
Our strategic guidelines also provide for this:
If economically and technologically or strategically sensible, LHM prioritizes the use of open source solutions, in particular to avoid company dependencies. LHM pursues this approach in both the application and infrastructure areas.
Applications
The City of Munich operates a large number of applications that are used in various areas. These range from administrative applications for internal use to applications for citizens that facilitate access to public services.
DigiWF is a platform for process automation. Users can automate workflows themselves and access other systems.
Inclus offers an overview of all accessible, (semi) public toilets in Munich by means of a map.
The current appointment system of the city of Munich will be replaced by Zeitmanagementsystem (ZMS) provided by the state of Berlin.
With DAVe, traffic counts can be commissioned, recorded and graphically evaluated using various diagrams.
The Information System for Social Infrastructure Planning (ISI) is an integrated solution for the Department of Urban Planning and Building Regulations of the City of Munich.
The Conflict Management App (KoBITApp) supports the employees of the IT department in resolving conflicts as low-threshold as possible.
The Praktikumsplaner offers a way to organize junior staff and their internships during their vocational training.
7-Zip is a data compression program with a high compression ratio.
ad2image provides a simple HTTP API for retrieving user photos from an Active Directory / Microsoft Exchange environment.
The cooperation platform Alfresco offers the possibility of cooperation with external parties, e.g. in the context of committee work (district committees) or with engineering firms.
Audacity is an easy-to-use multitrack audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Developed as open source by a group of volunteers.
As part of the project, a plugin for the integration of the BayernID to the specialized applications of the City of Munich was implemented using Keycloak.
BlueSpice MediaWiki is a free software, based on MediaWiki, and specifically developed for companies as an enterprise wiki distribution.
CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network) is a web-based data catalog software used especially by public institutions for sharing "open data", which is further developed by the OKFN.
CollectiveAccess is free, open-source software for cataloguing and publishing museum and archival collections.
Consul is a free software for citizen participation.
COVe enabled the management of suspected cases in the context of the Covid19 pandemic. The web application was developed in the IT unit itself.
dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.
With the open source tool "digiCamControl" you control your camera comfortably from the Windows desktop.
Edit and format charts with an intuitive interface that guides your process.
Drupal is a content management system (CMS) and framework.
With the plugin Elster Nezo - Plugin zur Anbindung des Elster Unternehmenskontos a connection to the nationwide Elster company account can be established via the open source software Keycloak.
Epitaph ermöglicht die lokale Positionsbestimmung auf mobilen Geräten. Die Open-Source-Bibliothek verwendet die Programmiersprache Dart und das Flutter-Framework.
FTP client for file transfer.
Mozilla Firefox is a free web browser installed on all city devices.
FreeFileSync is a free open source file synchronization program. It is available on Windows, Linux and OS X.
Freemind is a tool for drawing mind maps.
Freemind is a tool for drawing mind maps.
The GeoPortal provides basic spatial information such as an official city map, addresses and aerial photographs, or the "Potential of near-surface geothermal energy."
Gimp is an image editing program for pixel graphics. Besides the version for GNU/Linux and Unix there are also ports to Microsoft Windows and OS X
Hugin is a free stitching software. It is a GUI for the Panorama Tools (also known as PanoTools) and other tools.
Integreat is a local and multilingual integration platform for immigrants that can be used in any municipality without the involvement of the IT department.
TIBCO Jaspersoft® Studio is an editing software from the manufacturer TIBCO JasperReports®.
Keepass2 is a password management system for use on local and personal devices.
Kinderzeit was a vacation planner for parents and event organizers, created in collaboration with the Digital Product School (DPS).
Kiwi makes all characters from the character set "Latin characters in UNICODE" easy to find and use.
LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system with features designed for creating technical and scientific documentation.
LibreOffice is a free set of office software (office suite). It includes programs for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation and creating drawings.
The free platform LimeSurvey manages and publishes online surveys. With umfrage.muenchen.de and umfrage.musin.de for the RBS we even run two LimeSurvey instances.
Mark-a-Spot is a platform for openly dealing with infrastructure problems (deficiency reporting) and participation procedures in public space.
In the MDAS project, the EAI components for data import and export and the web application for controlling all incoming and outgoing interfaces for the central mobility data platform (MobidaM) are being developed.
MediaInfo is a program that lets you find out all sorts of info about video and audio files.
MediaWiki is a free software package for running a wiki, originally written for Wikipedia.
Metabase is an open-source business intelligence tool that allows users to extract and transform data from various sources to make informed decisions.
The UML tool "Modelio" allows modeling of UML models, whereby these models are stored in a (local) repository.
Nuclos is a free enterprise resource planning software that we at it@M use to manage our entire internal IT portfolio and resource planning.
The Open Broadcaster software supports the user in transmitting screen content in real time over a network connection to the Internet.
ownCloud is a free software that organizes the storage and distribution of data. The data can be accessed both via a web interface and with client applications.
PDF Split and Merge: splits PDFs or merges PDF files.
Pentaho is a collection of business intelligence software that is open source in a basic version.
The newsletter platform of the City of Munich uses the open source software phplist.
ProjectLibre is an open-source software for project planning and control.
PuTTY is a free software for establishing connections via Secure Shell, Telnet, remote login or serial interfaces.
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a geographic information system (GIS) manages, analyzes and visualizes databases of geographic information.
Application and programming language for statistics
Free software for visualization and analysis of measured values.
Scribus is a free desktop publishing program for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows systems, licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Startercode is a code generator that generates a Python and R script "framework" from each CSV dataset of the Open Data Portal of the City of Munich.
SuiteCRM is a free customer relationship management application for servers written in PHP.
TYPO3 is a free content management system for websites.
UMLet is an open-source UML tool with a simple user interface for drawing UML diagrams, creating sequence and activity diagrams from plain text, etc.
VeraCrypt is an open source software for data encryption, especially for full or partial encryption of hard disks and removable media.
Player for playing videos. Offers numerous codec supports.
WinSCP is a program for transferring data securely.
WordPress is the most used free content management system (CMS) on the Internet.
Zammad is a free helpdesk and issue tracking system that enables the connection of various channels such as e-mail and telephone.
Infrastructure
The infrastructure needed to run and develop software applications has always been based on open source software. Linux, servers, databases, encryption and programming languages are mostly open source.
The City of Munich's own data center includes an extensive portfolio of central specialist applications and services. In addition, all the necessary resources and services required to operate these applications and the underlying infrastructure are provided.
Ansible is a free automation tool for orchestration and configuration and administration of servers.
The Apache HTTP Server is one of the most widely used web servers on the Internet.
The Apache JMeter application is open source software designed to test functional behavior and measure performance.
Appswitcher allows users to easily switch between different web applications.
As part of the project, a plugin for the integration of the BayernID to the specialized applications of the City of Munich was implemented using Keycloak.
Checkmk is a free software for service monitoring of IT infrastructure. It is used to monitor servers, network, applications, clouds, containers, storage, databases and environmental sensors.
Cobbler is a tool for automated provisioning and installation of Linux based servers.
With the plugin Elster Nezo - Plugin zur Anbindung des Elster Unternehmenskontos a connection to the nationwide Elster company account can be established via the open source software Keycloak.
Proxy for using W3C WebDriver-compatible clients to interact with Gecko-based browsers.
GitLab is a version control system for software projects and devops platform.
Software distribution for Limux. Provides a role-based administration interface for managing and controlling complex IT environments.
Grafana is a tool for visualizing performance data. Here, corresponding Netapp plugins are used to display performance data of the Netapp storage systems.
Graylog is a platform for central log management, the collection, analysis and visualization of log data.
Apache Kafka is free software from the Apache Software Foundation that is used in particular for processing data streams.
Katello is a software stack of various components integrated together to provide a complete lifecycle and configuration management system for server systems.
Keycloak is an open source software product that enables single sign-on with identity and access management for modern applications and services.
KNIME is a free software for interactive data analysis. The program enables the integration of numerous machine learning and data mining methods through the modular pipelining concept.
As Linux is a free unix-like multi-user operating system, which is based on the Linux kernel and substantially on GNU software. Especially on servers and embedded computing Linux has become the standard.
MariaDB is a free, relational open source database management system that was created by a fork from MySQL.
Matomo (formerly Piwik) web tracking is used to analyze user behavior of a web application.
nginx a web server software, reverse proxy and email proxy (POP3/IMAP).
OpenAPI Generator enables the automatic generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration based on an OpenAPI specification. The OpenAPI specification is a standard for describing HTTP programming interfaces (APIs), which can also be used to define REST-compliant interfaces.
Internal and external services are operated on the Kubernetes platform Openshift.
pgAdmin is a server-based web application for Postgres database administration.
PostgreSQL is a free, object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance.
Puppet is a tool for configuration management of servers with operating systems such as Unix, Linux and FreeBSD.
Robot Framework is a generic automation framework that can be used for both test automation and robotic process automation.
Software suite that makes the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol available for Unix systems.
SonarQube is a platform for static analysis and evaluation of the technical quality of source code.
Software repositories (installation files) are managed in Spacewalk.
squid is a free proxy server and web cache. It is used to provide network transitions of all municipal schools to the Internet as well as the external DMZ services required for this purpose.
Web-based free software test management tool.