Langen & Reiß GbR. ADempiere - Introduction. ▫ Integrated Open Source ERP-
System. ▫ GPLv2 Licence. ▫ ADempiere, italian „Fulfil your Duty in honor“.
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A free ERP-System
Speaker: Company: www:
Norbert Wessel metas consult GmbH metas.de
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ADempiere - Introduction
Integrated Open Source ERP-System GPLv2 Licence ADempiere, italian „Fulfil your Duty in honor“ Java Swing Frontend and PostgreSQL / Oracle as Backend Over 2,7 Mio lines of Code almost 700 DB-Tables Customizable Role-based permissions Reporting (JasperReports)
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Featured Processes Prozesse Quote to Invoice Requisition to Invoice Material Management Accounting Production (3.5) Service Projects
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Good for midsize Companies
ERP-System for midsize companies (10-499 employees) Industries: Wholesale, Service Scales up to multi-international companies Multi: Organizations, Languages, Currencies, Warehouses
Client
Organization 1
WH 1
WH 2
Organization 2
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Sample Features Wholesale Quote to Invoice • • • •
Price lists Discounts backlog Generating Delivery Note and Invoice in Batch
Requisition to Invoice • Generating Purchase Orders according to replenishment rules • Bid management
Material Management • Automatic Inventory Maintenance
Accounting • Bookings for business cases are being automatically performed
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Geschichte und Entwicklung 1996 - Jörg Janke publishes Compiere September 2006 – Founding friendly fork „Adempiere“ November 2006 – ADempiere 3.1.1 • 100% GPL-conformity • PostgreSQL and Oracle XE • FreePDF and Tango Icons
March 2008 – Adempiere 3.4 „Emily“ - Stable Release • Further Stabilization • Minor features
Current: Development Branch 3.5 Libero (feature freeze) • Production Planning • Payroll
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Why Adempiere is really „free“ „ADempiere Bazaar“ • Open Source not only as licence but as development model • „The cathedral and the bazaar“
Project is community-driven • Not a single organization pushes the project but the community in a democratic way • Committers (Service Providers / Developers) can touch core according to rules
ADempiere-Community consists of • Parts of the former Compiere Community • Newbies • Other, former Compiere-Forks
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Activity One of the most active projects at SourceForge (Top 10) 70 developers Why is project activity so important? • • • • •
Better free support More frequent updates Fast bufixes Ensures long term survival of the project Higher Quality due to more testing
100% Open Source • • • •
GPL license Bazaar Modell Independent due to multiple maintainers No investment capital or third party influence
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Architecture
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Weboberfläche
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DEMO: Quote to Invoice - Standardorder
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Benefits for Endusers ERP-System with Enterprise Features that scales No licence or support fees at all Experienced Service Providers available Updates at no cost Adapting the application to your needs Customizations are being stored within the Application Dictionary and remain persistent (maintains upgradability) Independeny from vendor (non existent) and free to choose service provider
