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xTuple Mobile Web Development Team writes code on weekends for “fun”

xTuple CEO Ned Lilly announced today that three members of the software company’s Mobile Web Development Team will present their award-winning open source logistics solution at the company’s inaugural user conference on October 11. The three were grand-prize winners of the fourth iteration of the...

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NYC-based open source community champion AKA Consulting presents newly released commercial shipping offering

xTuple, makers of the world’s #1 open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and AKA Consulting, a New York-based xTuple partner, today introduced ShipIt for xTuple — a software extension that streamlines the process of delivering products with leading...

UPDATE: Feature Mob 2 is SOLD OUT

Mobile Web / Pentaho Business Intelligence "thank you" gift added!

In late August 2013, I announced our Feature Mob 2 , our second generation program of building out features by crowd-sourcing development of xTuple PostBooks®.

The results to date have been exceptional — we've nearly reached our goal, and in record time. But some of...

From OpenSource.com : InfoWorld's top picks in open source business applications, platforms, and middleware

"And the winners are... This week InfoWorld.com announced the winners of its Best of Open Source Software Awards, aka Bossies, which call out 120 top projects in seven categories. The article accompanying the awards takes a look at open source trends spotted this year, although...

By Fred Blauer

The xTuple project continues to evolve and innovate. The free open source community version, known as xTuple PostBooks®, is fairly comprehensive and suitable for many small businesses. The open source commercial versions add premium functionality for manufacturers and distributors. Third-party add-ons and extensions are available through xTuple's app store. The project...

ICYMI: xTupler #31 — the company and community e-newsletter is out! Please share: xTupler31Sep13

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Included in this issue, you will find: A letter from CEO Ned Lilly with information on: next month's inaugural xTupleCon user...

By Taija Jenkins, Associate Editor

xTuple, developers of open source enterprise resource planning software, announced the release of an updated version of its accounting, CRM and ERP software. xTuple 4.1 adds sales to the Mobile Web offering and includes new manufacturing and distribution features.

By Seth Fineberg

Open source ERP product maker xTuple has released version 4.1 of its flagship product, which now integrates an open source business intelligence suite with a mobile Web client.

UPDATE: This information is now outdated and is no longer supported. Please visit xTuple Forums for up-to-date discussion.

In case you missed it (ICYMI), the open source world is experiencing explosive growth. At xTuple we see this in the form of companies looking for enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solutions — integrated accounting, inventory, manufacturing and sales — migrating from proprietary solutions to open source xTuple ERP.

xTuple is at the forefront of a growing trend hitting the...

Lots to share with you in this autumn in the U.S. edition of the xTupler — my favorite time of year. Weather cools, American football season kicks off, the kids go back to school, and, of course, here at xTuple, we try to find creative and fun ways to engage with you, our community — and hopefully give a little something back in thanks for all your support.

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New full-featured enterprise resource planning system implemented at 40% of the cost of “big name” legacy vendors

EMSEAL Joint Systems recently mastered the “project management triangle” — fast delivery, excellent quality and cost-effectiveness — with their implementation of xTuple, the world’s #1 open source ERP.

xTuple CEO Ned Lilly notes, "...

UPDATE: Some weeks ago, I innocently posted a blog about my friend who used the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform to raise money to make a feature film based on the Veronica Mars TV show. It was enormously successful — they were hoping to raise $2 million, but finished with almost three times that amount, from over 91,000 individual backers. As they say in the movies, principal photography on...

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World’s #1 open source enterprise resource planning Software Company kicks-off second community development initiative — “Flash Mob” for new features [ UPDATES ]

xTuple CEO Ned Lilly queried the open source user community recently, asking what features were missing for xTuple PostBooks® to be "perfect." The result is Feature Mob 2, explained in this video...

We are happy to welcome Ellen Diggs to the xTuple community as our new Director of Professional Services . She brings a deep background with ERP, manufacturing, and quality systems to xTuple. And, she's arrived just in time to take part in our late-summer services promotion, which we call "Your Moment of Truth." Read more on the 2013 upgrade and consulting rewards.

The headline may be...

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After his company outgrew their old business management software, Kevin Biltz of Kemp Electric Supply Co. embarked on a search for a replacement. Biltz knew he needed more — and better — information from his internal systems. He was wary of older systems acquired over time by legacy vendors such as Epicor, Sage and Infor. Exorbitant costs, unreasonable time to implement and...

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Complimentary Webinar: How to Evaluate ERP in the Cloud

In its latest “next generation” leap to service the global business community, industry innovator xTuple takes on both proprietary and open source software with its Cloud 2.0 service and a new evaluation methodology, hosted in the Cloud.

Responding to community requests for a superior user experience...

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xTuple — downloaded in 200-plus countries — strengthens international business and software development operations

Norfolk, Virginia (USA)-headquartered xTuple, the world's #1 open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software company, has been selected to participate in Virginia Leaders in Export Trade (VALET) — a state program sponsored by the Virginia...

Well, we've moved our code anyway. Over the course of the last couple months we've been consolidating our code base, which was scattered in a variety of places, into GitHub . You can now find the code for all of xTuple's projects here: https://github.com/xtuple

This change means that we are no longer using SVN for any of our code management, it's all git now. We're actually quite...

The 2013 "Future of Open Source Survey" of more than 800 open-source-savvy business professionals revealed that the highest-ranking and overall important open-source trend in the next two to three years is growth of open-source knowledge and culture in academia. Not the desktop, the cloud, or even what's going on at Microsoft! Why?

Excerpted from an article by Steven J. Vaughan-...