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Growing commercial clients, international partners, and community fuels Q1 expansion

xTuple, the leader in open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced it has closed another very successful quarter with revenue up over 20 percent from first quarter 2009.

This year-over-year...

By Houston Neal

In the latest of our Expert Roundtable Series, we're focused on the state of the manufacturing ERP software industry. March was the eighth consecutive month of economic growth in manufacturing – the fastest growth the industry has seen since July of 2004 (source). Here, our roundtable of ERP industry insiders share their observation on how this light at the end of the...

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Open Source ERP leader forges tighter links with Drupal Web CMS

xTuple, the leader in Mac and open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced its sponsorship of DrupalCon San Francisco, which will...

And it seems an appropriate time to express our appreciation for the heroes of this rough season — the hardworking accountants of the world. We'll also be doing what we should have been doing better for a long time — talking directly to accountants about xTuple ERP. When you're telling the story of ERP software, sometimes it's easy to focus on one aspect of the tool set, such as manufacturing or CRM, but the truth is, the financials really are the key to the whole system.

By Seth Fineberg

Open-source software developer xTuple has added drop-ship purchasing, time and expense management, and cloud computing to the latest release of its enterprise resource planning software, xTuple ERP 3.5.

By Lisa Hoover

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor xTuple extended the functionality of its flagship product, xTuple ERP, to include time and expense management, drop ship purchasing, and more. xTuple ERP 3.5 is designed with an eye toward automating time-intensive routine tasks that normally fall on employees to do manually.

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Leading open source ERP gives SMB distributors, manufacturers and service-oriented businesses increased automation and saves employee time

xTuple, the leader in Mac and open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced the general availability of version 3.5 of its namesake product. This latest...

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Thriving xTuple Community Fixes Over 320 Bugs and Continues the Evolution of xTuple ERP

xTuple, the leader in Mac and open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, has announced the winner of its haxTuple Contest — Scott Zuke of Core Services Group in...

We do it every day in forums, the issue tracker and webinars. It's been at the core of the xTuple philosophy since our beginning in 2002. So we were happy to see that someone has given a name to this way of managing a product: Dion Hinchcliffe at ZD Net's Enterprise 2.0 blog calls it "Social CRM."

By Evan Koblentz

Open-source company xTuple, known for its CRM and ERP software, this week launched the first in a series of platform-specific mobile applications that may later be complemented by a single multiplatform product.

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Open Source ERP provider gains over 100 new commercial customers, doubles its partner base, accelerates community growth

xTuple, the leader in open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, today announced it has closed a very successful 2009 despite tough market conditions. In addition to doubling both its customer and partner base, the...

By Jack Wallen

If you are shopping around for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solutions, you know the search can be long and hard. And you also know the solutions can be expensive and complex. But did you know there were cross-platform solutions that could run on Linux, Windows, and Mac? One of those solutions is the xTuple ERP Postbooks Edition. This ERP solution is a full-on,...

Analyst: China MartensJay Layman

If commercial open source ERP apps vendor xTuple could sum up its plans for the coming year in a single phrase, it would be 'broadening the...

While economic conditions around the world continue to be challenging, here at xTuple we've been fortunate to have done better than most in 2009. We continue to see strong growth in customers, partners, and of course, our open source community. It's you - the tens of thousands of active participants in the xTuple ERP community — that make our success (and the continuing enhancement of xTuple ERP products) possible. We'd like to take this opportunity to say "thank you" — and to hopefully give a little something back as well.

By Matthew Aslett

Earlier this year Jason van Zyl from Sonatype raised the question as to why so many open core software vendors hide the pricing details of their proprietary enterprise editions, pointing out that it was in their best interests to be transparent.

Here in the U.S. we are about to take a couple days off to be with our families, eat turkey, and go shopping. That's right, this Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has become the biggest shopping day of the year. We want to get in on a little of this action ourselves — don't miss our announcements about year-end training deals and half-off paper forms, below.

Tomorrow is Halloween here in the U.S. — and we're celebrating by embracing our inner geek. Looking around the office, we see a number of people wearing trade show-issued black T-shirts with cryptic software industry jargon. And of course this month's xTupler is chock full of updates on improvements to scripting and packaging tools, new ways to interface with third-party products, little references to open source history and culture, and new xTuple beta software that is ready for testing!

Read below for details on the all-new version 3.3 of xTuple ERP (PostBooks, Standard, and Manufacturing Editions), as well as a FREE public beta release of xTuple's new Point-of-Sale package for retail businesses. Our global community continues to grow and thrive — and we're looking for your input as we look out to the next few releases of the software.

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New version of open source ERP software helps take growing businesses’ supply chains global, layering in international tax support and distribution resource planning

xTuple, the leader in open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, today announced the release of xTuple ERP 3.3, showcasing a robust international tax management system and...

The first is the upcoming release of version 3.3.0 of xTuple ERP. The details are below, but in summary, it was the most collaboratively-designed (and coded) release yet of xTuple ERP. You'll be particularly pleased if you are a distributor with inventory to manage at various sites, or if you operate in a country with a complex VAT and other tax structures.