Analyst: China Martens
We recently caught up with the six-year-old company formerly known as OpenMFG, which has renamed itself xTuple to indicate its status as more than a single-product company. While the commercial open source OpenMFG ERP suite remains the...
By Tom Yager
A hunger for lighter-weight and lower-cost sales and CRM applications has brought great success to SaaS vendors such as Salesforce.com, and also lifted the fortunes of open source offerings in the space. Open source ERP has had a harder time breaking out, but here too there are several impressive offerings to choose from. And if you're looking to open source for an...
NORFOLK, VA
xTuple, the leader in open source enterprise resource planning software, announced the immediate availability of its PostBooks® and OpenMFG ERP software, version 2.2. PostBooks® is free and open source software, available at the SourceForge open source repository;...
NORFOLK, VA
Some might say there is little about enterprise-class business software that hasn't already been said or done. How about this: an accounting, ERP and CRM package that is designed from the ground up-...
By Sean Michael Kerner
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is the goliath of the software industry, encompassing in its scope the financial and sometimes physical operations of a company.
Many smaller companies don't bother with full ERP applications due to their complexity; it's a situation that xTuple President and CEO Ned Lilly is trying to fix.
Until this week...
NORFOLK, VA
OpenMFG announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the IT industry's leading enterprise magazines, has named the OpenMFG ERP Suite a finalist in eWEEK's seventh Annual Excellence Awards program, in the Business Relationship Management category....
By Jon W. Glass
NORFOLK — Ned Lilly calls it the "X factor of downtown cool." That's why the president and chief executive officer of OpenMFG LLC, a small but growing software technology company, decided to put down roots there, he said.
To accommodate its growth, the company recently paid $1.2 million to purchase two adjoining buildings downtown that stretch between West York...
By Wayne Labs, Senior Technical Editor
What do processors want from their software? Gold sums it up: “Manufacturers want reliable, all inclusive software-one that does it all or comes close.”
Some food processors make products with little or no process automation yet need to manage inventories, supply chains and customers because of complex product mix and distribution. Other...
NORFOLK, VA
OpenMFG, the leading provider of Apple Mac-based enterprise solutions for small manufacturers and distributors, announced several new users of its namesake Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software running on the Apple Mac OS X platform. OpenMFG will exhibit at MacWorld...
NORFOLK, VA
OpenMFG, the leading provider of open source-based enterprise solutions for small manufacturers and distributors, today announced the second major release of OpenRPT, its cross-platform, open source report writer and rendering engine. OpenRPT is available under a dual-license...
NORFOLK, VA
OpenMFG, the leading provider of open source-based enterprise solutions for small manufacturers and distributors, today announced the long-awaited version 2.0 of its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Major enhancements include multi-currency capabilities, a new...
By Ann Bednarz
“We manage this community of partners and customers like an open source project. Everybody is able and encouraged to make enhancements at the source code level, and then we bring those modifications back into the supported project,” says Ned Lilly, CEO at OpenMFG.
Analyst: Martin Schneider
While some people thought little innovation was left to be seen in the ERP space, a few technology trends have breathed new life into the sector. Software as a service (SaaS) and open source have given even the smallest businesses...
NORFOLK, VA
OpenMFG, the leading provider of open source-based enterprise solutions for small manufacturers and distributors, today released the latest update to its namesake Enterprise Resource Planning application,...
By Jan Stafford
A garment company decided it had had enough of vendor bureaucracy, outdated software and system bugs. When it came time to upgrade, open source was one the mind of this IT pro.
NORFOLK, VA
OpenMFG, the leading provider of open source-based enterprise solutions for small manufacturers and distributors, today announced a partnership with Trolltech®, the company that makes software faster to build and easier to use to provide for easy translation of the OpenMFG ERP...
NORFOLK, VA
OpenMFG, the leading provider of open source-based enterprise solutions for small manufacturers and distributors, today announced version 1.3 — the fourth release of its namesake Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, packed with major new features such as integrated...
NORFOLK, VA
OpenMFG, the leading provider of open source-based enterprise solutions for small manufacturers and distributors, today announced a dramatic expansion of its OpenMFG Partner Program. The new program will significantly expand the opportunities for developers and systems integrators to...
Analyst: Martin Schneider
OpenMFG is looking to get more visible with its ERP suite built using open source components. The company operates under what it calls a 'proprietary GPL' wherein users and partners extend the source code, and OpenMFG writes it back into the core...
By Laurie Sullivan
Though the major enterprise-application vendors are readying their software for the brave new open-source world, and more companies are shifting to open-source environments, there's plenty of room for growth.