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Open Source ERP for E-Business
In this post a research on open source enterprise resource planning systems is published which has been conducted in spring 2007. Information and results may be outdated but I hope that reading this will give you food for thought.
Abstract
Open source software (OSS) is attributed with many advantages, prominently lower costs due to lacking license fees, increased flexibility due to free availability of source code and last but not least the missing lock-in with a certain software vendor. These general advantages are valuable for small and mid-sized enterprises (SME) since these companies have limited financial resources for either purchasing and customizing commercial software packages or developing software on their own. As the OSS paradigm is not only limited to operating and office applications, but also emerges in the area of enterprise resource planning systems (ERP), they have a growing relevance to business processes and the interorganizational integration of these processes. When the latter is conceived as electronic business the open nature of OSS also improves the networkability of SME, a key competitive factor for companies that are required to closely collaborate with value chain partners. In view of these developments, this paper presents a first step towards systematically analyzing the contribution of OS-ERP systems for SME. For this purpose a web content survey was conducted which led to the selection of ten systems. It reveals that not all systems meet the OS paradigm, that primarily basic operational ERP functionalities are covered and that technological support for electronic business integration needs to be enhanced.
Tags: adempiere, compiere, erp5, ofbiz, openbravo, openmfg, opentaps, sql-ledger, tinyerp, weberp
