opentaps Releases New Version of Open Source ERP + CRM System
03/17/2010
opentaps released Version 1.4 of its Open Source ERP + CRM system, a suite of business applications including customer relationship management, inventory and warehouse management, manufacturing, supply chain management, accounting, e-commerce, and business intelligence.
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opentaps announced it is shipping Open Source EPR + CRM Version 1.4, with an enterprise Java foundation supporting a suite of business applications including customer relationship management, inventory and warehouse management, manufacturing, supply chain management, accounting, e-commerce, and business intelligence. It is available for free as open source software and can be downloaded from www.opentaps.org
As with high-end commercial enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) software, opentaps can help businesses better understand and manage customer interactions; optimize inventory levels and automate reordering; plan and manage complex manufacturing processes; fulfill orders efficiently in the warehouse; and manage accounts receivable, accounts payable, and collections.
opentaps is fully Web based and can be deployed either on premises or in the cloud. opentaps can be downloaded and used under the Free Software Foundation's Affero General Public License Verison 3.
oepntaps's technical architecture makes it even more flexible to meet the needs of today's web-driven businesses. It is written in Java around a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and supports web services out of the box. opentaps can be deployed on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris operating environments and is compatible with all major databases, including major commercial databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server and popular open source databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.
The addition of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) in opentaps Version 1.4 gives it a more interactive Web 2.0 user interface, and the bundling of the Pentaho and JasperReports open source business intelligence platforms with opentaps gives business users an easy way to gain real time visibility into business results.