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A free ERP-System

Speaker: Norbert Wessel

Company: metas consult GmbH
www: 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 Organization 2

WH 1 WH 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
 May 2007 – Adempiere 3.2.0 „MayDay Edition“
• Stable Release
• > 400 Bug Fixes
 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
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Vision of ADempiere

“To become the Linux of business applications“

Information Is Free ... You have to know

People Are Not ... You have to pay

Contributors Are Priceless ... You have to be