Mapbender is the back office software and client framework for spatial data infrastructures. The software is implemented in PHP and JavaScript and dual licensed under GNU GPL and Simplified BSD license. It provides a data model and web based interfaces for displaying, navigating and interacting with OGC compliant map services.
The Mapbender framework furthermore provides authentication and authorization services, OWS Proxy functionality, management interfaces for user, group and service administration.

Mapbender3 is the successor of the Mapbender 2 Version and is based on the frameworks Symfony2, JQuery and OpenLayers.
Mapbender is an official Open Source Geospatial Foundation project (OSGeo) and all about managing maps!