xTuple's Collective Brainpower Blog

By PJ Jakovljevic

xTuple, a provider of open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solutions, recently announced the availability of xTupleCommerce — version 2.0 of its e-commerce Web portal . The vendor also acquired a notable Web consultancy partner, Artsmith Media , to support booming customer demand for the online business/commerce solution — investment bank Goldman...

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CIO Review Magazine recognizes xTuple’s expanding global profile in Enterprise Resource Planning Software for manufacturers and distributors

xTuple, makers of the world’s #1 open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solutions, was named by CIO Review magazine this week as one of the top 20 companies in the forefront of tackling Manufacturing...

Today, innovation and manufacturing capabilities are dispersed around the globe. Global supply chains, localized products and virtualized product development are changing the nature of manufacturing. Additionally, manufacturers must adopt new business models to move from pur product selling to services and solutions for their end customers. Expanding into new markets, sourcing of scarce raw...

By Phil Walzer

xTuple hasn't exactly quadrupled. But the software development firm has acquired another small downtown Norfolk tech company and expects a big payoff.

By Lydia Wheeler

At Start! Peninsula this year, three winners were named, but the competition continues, as the 10 finalists compete for $10,000 in seed money.

By Benita M

Headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, xTuple is an enterprise software company that develops and markets open source software under the brand name xTuple ERP. In October 2001, Ned Lilly, the President and CEO of xTuple, co-founded the company, originally called OpenMFG, with the aim of bringing the worlds of open source and enterprise resource planning (ERP) together to solve...

By Seth Fineberg

Open-source ERP and CRM software maker xTuple has released xTupleCommerce – version 2.0 of its eCommerce Web portal — and acquired Web consultancy Artsmith Media to support customer demand for the offering.

Companies running their internal operations with xTuple ERP can now conduct business — both consumer and trade sales and service — with a public, customer-...

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Award-winning Web development firm joins ERP leader xTuple to deliver fully integrated customer-facing business solutions — for consumer and trade online sales

xTuple, makers of the world’s #1 open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solutions, announces the availability of xTupleCommerce — version 2.0 of its eCommerce Web Portal — and the...

You have a good reason for starting a Free Trial of xTuple. Perhaps your company has been running QuickBooks, and now you need something more powerful to handle the complexities of your business. Or you are running on a moribund ERP or accounting package (Sage, anyone?), and you need to find a new platform with a brighter future. You've heard that xTuple offers greater extensibility and...

By Paul Rubens

From simple bookkeeping packages to full-blown ERP systems, open source software can provide free options for small businesses that don't have the budget for big-ticket enterprise applications.

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At the twilight of old proprietary business management systems, open source innovation thrives

xTuple — makers of the award-winning suite of accounting, Corporate Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Planning Software (ERP) software – today announces the release of xTuple 4.2, which coincides with the theatrical release of “Thor.2” (also known as Thor: The...

By Andrew Carter

All businesses today, no matter how small or big they, are operating electronically. Some of them are even their systems on the cloud. However, with so many options and different products available trying to choose what system your company will use is costly and time-consuming.

ERP systems, which means Enterprise Resource Planning, is a multi billion dollar...

A couple of years ago, it occurred to me it might be possible to compare open source ERPs, ranking them not by total number of downloads (a number which is easily skewed and/or misinterpreted) but instead by measuring how responsive we are to our respective communities. To get a reliable unit for measuring responsiveness, I decided to focus on bug reports. I liked bug reports because a) they...

Well, that was fun! For those of you not able to join us at our inaugural user conference in October... well, let's just say we hope to see you next year!

By Shaun Bradley

This week xTuple hosted its annual conference in Norfolk, VA, United States where our CEO & Co-founder Sujee Saparamadu discussed and presented the current integrations and the roadmap of this partner. This year the event saw over 500 industry professionals and key note speeches from many experts.

We all know eCommerce will play an increasingly important role in how we operate our businesses. One critical aspect of successful online stores (example: Amazon, Home Depot, Overstock), is the tight integration with their back office applications — allowing for a valuable customer experience and increased efficiencies for the merchant.

With this in mind, xTuple recently announced an...

Standing-room only xTupleCon13 — xTuple’s inaugural open source ERP user conference — showcases software advances and highlights community achievements

Read more, including pictures from the event: http://www.xtuple.com/press/how-xtuple-ignited-global-open-source-community-2013

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Standing-room only xTupleCon13 — xTuple’s inaugural open source ERP user conference — showcases software advances and highlights community achievements

Promoted as the “ultimate user conference for the world’s #1 open source ERP community,” the first ever “xTupleCon” drew together attendees from every corner of the globe, including customers, value-added resellers...

By Miranda Limonczenko

Open source simply means that the solution’s source code is made freely available to developers and potential customers. Unlike a closed source solution, open source gives power to the people. Anybody can freely use the source code to build out and customize a solution to meet any specific requirements he might need. And the solution isn’t made for only...

We've been hearing a lot from partners and users who want to get their hands on our web/mobile platform. This new framework makes it easy to write extensions in pure javascript onto our core code to customize the end-user experience or integrate with other services.

But you have to know where to start! That's why we've written a three-part tutorial on how to write an extension in our...