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OpenERP - implementation and ergonomy

Lots of proprietary software wars on the one side and the nature of the Open Source (OS) licenses on the other resulted with more and more success stories, when it is the word about OS Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementations. Business world finally has quality alternative to the proprietary software. OS business model, based on a contribution of large number of individuals and partners, definitely affects the framework quality and rapid growth of the platform capabilities. Focus of this paper is one of the most popular OS ERP systems of today - OpenERP. Popularity of OpenERP authors of this paper measure by Google AdWords service and Amplicate, social networking sites analyzer. Ohloh open source software monitoring service and OpenERP evaluation matrix are also used and commented when comparing OpenERP with other ERP systems. Through the questionnaire authors explore implementation preconditions, legislative that affects localization projects worldwide, as well as advantages and risks of using OS ERP in today’s business. The research has been made on a dozen participants, Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) that are implementing OpenERP. Except the OS ERP business ecosystem and technical specifics, this paper also describes functional aspect of OpenERP, with emphasis on financial accounting processes. At the end, authors tried to identify module independency, connectivity capabilities, trends and further evolution of the ERP systems.

open source (OS); enterprise resource planning (ERP); small and medium enterprises (SME); financial accounting; business workflows

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