Posts Tagged ‘sme’
Open Source ERP and their Suitability for Business Use
In this post a research on open source enterprise resource planning systems is published which has been conducted in fall 2006. Information and results may be outdated but I hope that reading this will give you food for thought.
Abstract
Although open source systems are primarily discussed for operation systems, office applications and the like, early examples are also emerging for business applications. This field is usually referred to as enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) and has been the domain of large software manufacturers. This paper presents research in progress on the evaluation of seven open source enterprise resource planning systems. Based on an extensive web research, costs, ease of evaluation, diversity of languages and industry solutions, and support and training have been compared. The results indicate that many of these systems may be used by small and mid-sized enterprises. Support partners are available in Europe and sometimes worldwide which may accompany the implementation of the products.
Tags: compiere, erp5, openbravo, opentaps, sme, sql-ledger, tinyerp, weberp
