When you consider the entire universe of ERP deployments, few companies have adopted open-source ERP software. Even the most established and longest-lived project, Compiere, mostly attracts companies ...

xTuple introduced Version 2.2 of its OpenMFG enterprise resource planning software and said the free, open source version, PostBooks, has been downloaded more than 12,000 times since it was introduced ...

Business leaders often assume that overhauling existing or implementing new ERP software is expensive and does not lead to high returns on investment. This is not necessarily true, according to Diogo ...

Businesses that love Java and are looking to move to open source may want to give Compiere a look. The system is a complete ERP and CRM suite that includes accounting, order entry, customer ...

There are a handful of open source ERP solutions that can be considered business-ready --- thorough documentation, extensive technical and customer support, and a regular release schedule. Openbravo ...

While Oracle and SAP deal with multi-million-dollar projects at large enterprises, an opportunity with SMBs opens up for open source Earlier this year, Matt wrote that in 2009, companies will balk at ...

Almost two months after September’s five-part series on open source ERP and business management software packages, questions are still coming in on how I could “possibly have missed” some of the ...

Belgium-based Odoo decided to use open source tools as a way to attack the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software market, going up against giants like SAP. Fast-forward a couple of decades and it ...

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The goal of ERP isn’t simply to provide a unified application interface for every aspect of a company’s business process — it also tries to include the inherent data-mining capabilities that go along ...