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...
xTuple News Coverage
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...
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.
By PJ Jakovljevic
These days, amid the austerity, cuts, and general malaise, it is refreshing to hear about the whopping annual growth of a manufacturing-oriented enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor. Sure, one can discount the magnitude of this upbeat news — this particular vendor is still budding, if you compare it to SAP, Oracle, or Infor — but I welcome this it (and...
By Drew Robb
While no accurate market share numbers appear to exist, Ned Lilly, CEO of open source ERP provider xTuple, estimates that the open source share of the ERP market hovers somewhere around one-and-a-half percent. "If you segmented it into three tiers with Oracle and SAP as the top tier, you might be approaching 1 percent to 2 percent in Tiers 2 and 3," he said. "We're clearly...
By Richard Foster
Increasingly, though, new technology is democratizing the business landscape. Companies like xTuple of Norfolk are offering affordable ERP software solutions to small and medium-sized businesses that want to integrate their business systems in a painless and cost-effective fashion.
By PJ Jakovljevic
This article features the third vendor from the same neck of the woods, xTuple (formerly OpenMFG), which recently turned 10 years young. As a commercial open source company, xTuple works with a global community of tens of thousands of professional users. Customers can tailor the vendor’s solutions with multi-platform support for Apple Mac, Microsoft Windows, Linux and...
By SIDDHARTHA
xTuple ERP is another good free alternative to SAP Business Suite. xTuple ERP is a fully integrated ERP and CRM system. It offers a greater flexibility in the range of businesses and industries. The ERP system can easily manage all business activities and handles the customer data efficiently.
Analyst: Jay Layman
While growing its business and customers in segments such as manufacturing, distribution and retail, open source ERP vendor xTuple is building a new mobile version for its ERP, CRM, and business accounting software and features.
While growing its business and customers in segments such as manufacturing, distribution and retail, open source ERP vendor xTuple...
From the Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice (JITE)
This research paper is a collaboration of the Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management at Southeastern Louisiana University and the Department of Management at Baruch College, New York, NY.
Executive Summary
The field of supply chain management has...
By GetApp
Cost and crowd-sourcing implications aside, I asked Ned Lilly, CEO of xTuple.com, more about the perceived benefits of an ERP solution. He zeroed in on three key advantages of commercial open-source ERP: affordable (because they cost significantly lower than other solutions), flexible (because you have the source code, you can configure and customize the solution to pretty...
By T. J. Prieur
Manufacturers have many, if not most, of the business needs of larger companies. With those needs come a number of complexities in processes, and most manufacturers use, or would like to use, some sort of ERP — Enterprise Resource Planning — software to manage the flow of information in the business.
451 Research: Spreading the appeal: xTuple aims its ERP apps at both smaller and larger user targets
Analyst: China Martens , Jay Layman
As we head into 2011, we're expecting incremental but constant change to occur in the ERP applications arena. Faster deployment times and ease of customization will become even more important issues than ever for customers. Against this backdrop, commercial open source ERP vendors may win over additional customers, particularly if they can field...
By Manufacturing Business Technology
After reviewing six ERP vendors who fulfilled all of their basic requirements, mainly Windows-based solutions, Cedarlane chose xTuple, primarily because of the low cost. “We chose xTuple, at first, for the ‘wrong’ reason: price. But we kept it for the right reasons: because of the great product and company behind it,” stated Baroco. “I had scarcely...
By Savio Rodrigues
xTuple has a user community of more than 25,000 active members. Openbravo and Compiere, both previous winners of InfoWorld's Best of Open Source in the ERP category, are two other leading open source ERP products.
By FoodEngineering
“As part of our due diligence we spoke with several companies that were running ERPs of all sizes, and the feedback was consistent-the bigger the software house, the more problems with the ERP program,” says Harry Muller-Thym, Sr., founder of Thymly. After looking at both large and small vendors, Thymly chose xTuple because of its open source philosophy and excellent...
By Koa Beck
xTuple, a provider of commercial open-source business management software, has announced the release of a new version of its flagship product along with an expansion of the xTuple cloud service. The new features of the open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software include a Quickstart Wizard for setup and an xTuple desktop, with graphical, customizable workflows...
By Minh Huynh & Ivan Pinto
For years, there has been a need for teaching students about business process integration. The use of ERP systems has been proposed as a mechanism to meet this need. Yet, in the midst of a recent economic crisis, it is difficult to find funding for the acquisition and implementation of an ERP system for teaching purpose. While it is recognized that the...
By Nathan Eddy
xTuple, a provider of commercial open source business management software for small to medium-size businesses, announced the release of the latest version of the company's flagship product and the expansion of the xTuple Cloud service. New features of the open source ERP software include a QuickStart Wizard for improved system set up configuration and an xTuple Desktop...
By Chris Kanaracus
xTuple probably has about 500 active participants in its open-source community, and roughly 25,000 people "who have raised their hand somewhere along the line," said xTuple CEO Ned Lilly. There have been nearly 400,000 downloads of xTuple software, he added.