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IT: The Compiere Difference,
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Richard Sonnier Compiere HistoryThe Compiere software was written for Goodyear Germany and has been running in production "since March 2000 in the headquarters and branches of the tire retailer." It was a improved version of a previous software package developed by the same principle author in early 1980's. Thus, the Compiere software represents over twenty years of experience in business software. The software is developed and supported by ComPiere, Inc. ComPiere, Inc. is a private company based in the USA.How is Compiere Different?Beyond it being open source, Compiere is very different from other business applications. Standard business applications focus on functional pieces of the business. For example, QuickBooks does business accounting. If you have QuickBooks and want to manage your sales and marketing with a customer relationship management (CRM) application, you must buy another software package like ACT! This results on duplication of customer information in both applications and inefficencies in your business.Compiere is truly integrated where all your business information is stored and access within the Compiere application. For example, CRM is simply built into the system. Compiere achieves this integration by implementing business processes and not business functions. At its core Compiere is based on relationship management and the associated information for the relationships. Compiere stores all this relationship information in its database so that more of the application functionality is actually stored as data (sometimes called metadata). This architecture allows fast implementation where everything in the system can be changed when needed so that a business can go production with Compiere in a few weeks. Compiere is a safe business system and designed to be 100% availability to the users. Since any computer system can have failures, Compiere is designed to handle any failures safely. The software detects when things go wrong and allows you to recover quickly. Global Market Designed for Rich and Reach UI Java based. HTML based view anyway over the Internet. Smart User Interface Personalized Everything is customized Make screns Based on integrated business processes. Relationship Management Payroll no benefits Manufacturing Gross Demand Web Store Contract Management Bank Statements Performance management Integrated Application Report Writer Other applications very ugly Multi-org Multiple client multiple organizations Multi-Accounting Multi-lingual User Environment Documents Application Dictionary Extreme fast development Extreme stable application Allows complete data driven Metadata -- replacing code by data Data Migration Toolset Windows/Reports creation uses Client CPU - Less overhead than ORACLE APPS and SAP Information Structure Change ANY Time Chart of accounts Account Segments/Elements Re-Post if required RecommendationGo to http://www.compiere.org and check out the world's most popular open source application for business.Next week I will finish my discussion of Compiere. |
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