This open source ERP industry news roundup will focus on knowledge transfer activities by the leading solutions,an area of significant investment of time and money. One of the first motivations to start Open Source ERP Guru was the lack of knowledge around open source ERP solutions, which is, in my opinion, one (if not the most) significant factors preventing open source ERP solutions to become mainstream in the enterprise. I am glad to see that the different projects are putting emphasis on this issue.
We will also discuss new releases coming out from Apache OFBiz and Compiere.
TinyERP- First, since I am getting quite a few questions about TinyERP I plan to further investigate the solution and post an installation walkthrough. Tiny is also working hard on knowledge transfer around its product, currently focusing on Europe. They will hold ‘Discovery Days’ across Europe all throughout May . They also offer free launch!!
Openbravo hosted a European open c...
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When most people hear about open source software, they think of charity, altruism, and "free stuff." At a deeper level, however, the open source movement is often highly individualistic.... more
BitRock makes open source software easier to use by providing a complete automated solution for Open Source Application Deployment.As long time open source users and contributors, we believe that open source solutions are often more stable, more secure and perform better than their commercial counterparts. BitRock has developed a system to provide a single, consistent and simplified application deployment process across multiple operating system platforms. As a result, open source applications a... more
This has been a big week on the open source database front. Yesterday, Ingres launched version 9.2 of its database, which you can download here. And today, Sun Microsystems announced the new version 5.1 of MySQL, with a near-final candidate release downloadable here, and a final version expected on December 6th.
The Ingres database is a [...]
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What Is Business Intelligence?
Business Intelligence (BI) software is a set of technologies and best practices providing insight into business activities.
The need for business intelligence is an integral part of any operational information system (e.g. ERP). Initially, reports were used to retrieve such information, but as users became more demanding and sophisticated , and the amount of enterprise data requiring analysis grew exponentially, software companies started develop... more
Starting today,I will be reporting on open source ERP news, in addition to the regular posts - recorded flash tutorials, user guides,installation walkthrough and industry trends.
I am not affiliated with any of the open source ERP vendors so news reported are provided with my own interpretation, trying to add my take to the standard press releases published by the vendors.
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Software projects are on a constant cycle of development, testing, releasing and fixing. open source ERP projects are not different.
I would like to update on the latest released version of the different solutions and elaborate a little about the projects’ development roadmaps.
Openbravo
Openbravo latest release is R2.35 maintenance pack 1 which was released back in early January 2008. It contains mainly bug fixes, focusing on improving stability - no new functionality was added. ... more
I would like to challenge the open source ERP community today.
A few days ago I got a great email from one of my readers. I really liked what I read as the email covers very well many of the questions and concerns that are raised today by anyone who is looking into open source ERP - either for his own business or for his customers. I will post the email as-is. The mail raises some issues in regards to support but also asks ‘which open source ERP solution best answers these requir... more
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