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xTuple is a company with a mission — to help companies of all sizes successfully implement powerful and easy-to-use open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to grow their business profitably.

By Lydia Wheeler

A panel of three judges narrowed the pool of entrepreneurial hopefuls down to 10 on Friday. Each was awarded office space in one of the five sponsoring area incubators, free telephone and Internet service, and xTuple, a business management software program that's produced locally in Norfolk.

By PJ Jakovljevic

In the final days of 2012, xTuple, a commercial open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) company that works with a global community of tens of thousands of professional users, reported its second consecutive record quarter of sales for 2012. Due to a surge of new customers in manufacturing and distribution, revenue was reportedly up 74 percent...

Local investors xTuple, Kaufman & Canoles, Dominion Enterprises and JR Researching each invested $10,000, along with the city of Norfolk, which provided the space.

By Jay Layman

Open source ERP and CRM vendor xTuple is growing its business and building on its Mobile Web application that provides faster performance and mobility, but is also fully compatible with xTuple's desktop business management and accounting software. Reporting year-over-year revenue growth of almost 60% for 2012, xTuple recently updated its desktop version to xTuple Desktop 4...

By Phil Walzer

Norfolk's job growth also has hinged on retail. But that doesn't mean the city isn't going after "higher-paying opportunities," Rigney said. He pointed to high-tech gains in downtown Norfolk, where the software development firm xTuple added about 20 jobs in 2012.

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Fully interoperable Cloud CRM, 400+ other enhancements from world’s #1 open source ERP

xTuple, makers of the world’s #1 open source ERP software, today announced the immediate availability of version 4.0 of the xTuple accounting, CRM and ERP suite. The release marks a milestone for the commercial open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendor....

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Second annual Partner Conference for global leader in open source accounting, ERP and CRM

xTuple, the world’s #1 open source ERP, recognized its rapidly growing channel base at the annual xTuple Partner Conference (PartnerCon) with awards for exceptional growth and outstanding service.

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This is it. After years of research and development, we're happy — and proud — to release xTuple 4.0, the first version to include our new Mobile Web client with over 400 new enhancements to what we now refer to as the "Desktop client" — including a new Social Desktop featuring integrated intra-company Instant Messaging, Cost Plus Pricing, Enhanced Job Costing and significant enhancements to Projects and Corporate Relationship Management. But the Mobile Web client is truly a game-changer...

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Open innovator rounds out management team with co-founder of OpenProj (now ProjectLibre)

Effective December 1, 2012, Marc O’Brien joins the xTuple management team as Vice President of Business Development following on three solid quarters of the company’s record sales.

CEO Ned Lilly said, "Marc’s focus will be on evangelizing xTuple as a product...

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Global open source accounting, ERP and CRM software innovator posts another quarter of record revenues

Fueled by a surge of new customers in manufacturing and distribution, commercial open source software vendor xTuple reported its second consecutive record quarter of sales for 2012 — and pushed ahead with its groundbreaking new Mobile Web application...

By Lydia Wheeler

In 2011, the U.S. Economic Development Administration awarded the Hampton Roads Partnership half a million dollars. The cost-sharing grant, split into two $250,000 payments over two years, went to Innovate!HamptonRoads, a multi-faceted partnership initiative focused on growing businesses locally.

We are in the final phases of beta testing for our landmark release of xTuple 4.0. If you have followed xTuple for a while, you know we are modest with our version numbering. The current release, 3.8.x, is really the 17th major release of the xTuple software. And we save the big version numbers for something special...

By Proformative

My CTO swears he can build my company a better ERP using open source ERP tools than we could buy from an Oracle or SAP (or any lower-end company). I respectfully disagree, but I can’t just let it sit there without an answer because I have never used open source for financials. Does anyone here have experience with open source ERP and is it great or a disaster or neither...

By DarkDuck

xTuple's PostBooks®-based ERP tool is built using a client-server model, which means that there are few installation requirements on the part of the client — so low-cost machinery can be deployed from the word go, leaving your hardware investment options open. If the mobility-cum-power afforded by notebook computers suits your business, that's possible. If you need to go...

Four years ago, Ken Moore decided that there had to be a way to cut down his IT costs at his Kenosha, Wisconsin, manufacturing company, Cordeck (www.cordeck.com). Cordeck is a full-service manufacturer and stocking distributor of corrugated steel deck, flashing, trim, and building construction accessories. Cordeck does not have an in-house IT staff, and Ken was tired of seeing the local IT...

Jared Romey started his beauty products distribution business, Romey Inc., back in 2005. In 2007, he brought his brother Dustin into the business to help with its rapid expansion. At the time, they gave little thought to the business software they would need to run the business. Dustin was a Mac user and Jared quickly became one. They knew they wanted something they could use on the Mac to...

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Software innovator and ERP veteran to deliver technology solutions for distributors and manufacturers in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania

xTuple, global leader in commercial open source business management software for growing companies, announces its partnership with AKA Computer Consulting, Inc., (AKA). xTuple and AKA together will deliver...

By Jonathan Corbet

PostBooks® has been around as a commercial project since 2000 or so; it made the shift to a free software project in 2007. It is, however, a classic example of a corporate-controlled project, with the corporation in this case being a company called xTuple. The license is the "badgeware" Common Public Attribution License (CPAL), which requires the acknowledgment of the...

By ERPLIFE

This time the email arrives from Open source ERP provider xTuple who is the latest publisher to mine the disaffected Sage channel with a broadcast email today that uses a graveyard image of discontinued Sage products to poke fun of the recent decision by Sage North America to prune back some Sage product lines.