| To support innovation and growth, many small and | | | | supports accounting, warehouse management, Point |
| medium companies are turning to enterprise software | | | | Of Sales, E-commerce and project management. |
| solutions to help them improve customer visibility, | | | | 2.Openbravo - A powerful open source ERP solution, |
| streamline operational activities and increase | | | | Openbravo offers a vibrant community around its |
| commercial transparency inside their organization. | | | | product, large partner network, especially in Europe, |
| Enterprise Resource Planning is a software product | | | | and a modern, flashy user interface. It is also one of |
| that supports end-to-end daily commercial activities. | | | | few open source ERP solutions that offer |
| For large enterprises, implementing this type of | | | | manufacturing module as an integral part of its |
| software is a long (several years) and costly (several | | | | product. Openbravo also offers accounting, sales, |
| millions of dollars, yearly!) effort. | | | | warehouse management and Point Of Sale. |
| For a small-medium business that should not be the | | | | 3.Opentaps - Build on top of the robust Apache |
| case. Open source ERP software provide a wealth of | | | | OFBiz foundation, Opentaps provides CRM, Point Of |
| functionality to support core business processes, | | | | Sale, Accounting ,warehouse management and an |
| easy to use user interface and best of all, it's free! | | | | on-line store. It is still in relatively early stages of |
| You (or your outsourcing IT partner) can download | | | | development but already offers great value and has |
| the software for free and setup it up within a day to | | | | a bright future ahead of it. |
| get your business running! | | | | 4.Adempire - A spin-off project from Compiere, the |
| Open source ERP software also offer extensive | | | | Adempiere team is set to take Compiere to new |
| documentation, communities that are all about sharing | | | | heights. It's a separate offering from Compiere, which |
| knowledge and experience and simple techniques that | | | | offers, on top of Compiere's functionality, a |
| let you customize the software to fit your needs. | | | | manufacturing module and a free web-based user |
| There are literally hundreds of open source ERP | | | | interface. |
| projects, but the 5 solutions you really need to know | | | | 5.Postbooks - focusing mainly on accounting, |
| about are: | | | | Postbooks is the open source brother project of |
| 1.Compiere - With more than a million downloads, | | | | OpenMFG, a powerful manufacturing-oriented |
| Compiere is today's most established open source | | | | software solution. Other than accounting, Postbooks |
| ERP solution. With a strong partner network to help | | | | provides CRM, warehouse management and a |
| you in your ERP implementation project, Compiere | | | | purchasing module. |
| can get you to the next level of efficiency. Compiere | | | | |