By Jacob Geiger — Work It, Richmond
Small businesses in Hampton Roads are spending a lot of time these days worrying about their biggest source of customers: the U.S. military.
Half of the federal government’s budget sequester — $85 billion in automatic spending cuts that began last month — is being carved from defense spending, even though defense makes up about one-fifth of...
The Virginia Beach Tough Mudder has a venue (and a new date!)
As we previously posted , xTuple has formed a team to participate in the world-famous Tough Mudder obstacle race to benefit the Wounded Warrior Foundation. The Virginia Beach Tough Mudder now also has an official location: Berkeley Plantation (the site of America's first Thanksgiving) and a new set of dates: June 8th &...
NORFOLK, VA
xTuple vice president Wally Tonra, account executive Stacey Pandeloglou and software engineer Tom Atkins are suiting up for the big game. That 'big game' — in the world of industrial distribution — is the IMARK Showcase, an annual marketing conference and trade show that gives the...
You may have already heard, thanks to the overwhelming support from our community, that xTuple PostBooks® was voted "Project of the Month" on the SourceForge open source portal. It was a tremendous honor for all of us, and we share the accolade with all of you. So we started thinking about more ways we could engage with you to make sure this software is meeting your needs...
Written By PJ Jakovljevic
Often I get asked the question why people refer to an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system as a true “enterprise resource planning” solution if it doesn’t entail human resources management (HRM) — after all, every organization needs to manage its people, its products and services, and its finances. It seems that open source manufacturing and distribution...
By Ned Lilly
My company is the corporate sponsor of xTuple PostBooks® — a leading open source ERP — which is currently being honored as the “Project of the Month” at the SourceForge open source software portal. This Veronica Mars business got me thinking about how we might do something similar in our xTuple community, and perhaps address some of the most-requested “missing features” in...
NORFOLK, VA
xTuple ERP announces new technology integration partnership with the world's most popular and most used open source human resource management software, OrangeHRM .
OrangeHRM contains all the...
NORFOLK, VA
Customers and value-added resellers (VARs) of a particular legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) software company may have received an over-size postcard recently with haunting images — an eerie graveyard full of tombstones.
Continuing to make its mark as...
By Perry Smith
Ned Lilly judges: This weekend, dozens of local entrepreneurs gather to pitch their best web-product ideas at START NORFOLK, a friendly competition where the winner receives expert advice on how best to bring their idea to market. On today’s broadcast, we’ll learn how the competition has evolved over the past two years, and how previous winners have benefited from their...
By Chuck Schaeffer
Open source software delivers the tools that dominate the Web and run much of everything we call the cloud. But despite ubiquitous acceptance of open source databases, operating systems and development tools, are business and technology leaders ready for open source ERP applications? This is a question where the answer lies in a steady transition and market movement...
“PostBooks® would be perfect if…”
If the Veronica Mars Movie Project and an 89 year old grandma with her flowered "Happy Canes" can do it, then the xTuple PostBooks® community can rise to the occasion and meet CEO Ned Lilly's challenge to create Kickstarter's first ERP project .
What feature do you need? Please continue to add your request to xTuple’s Kickstarter here (...
By Phil Walzer
"There's no question that getting together face to face, going out to dinner, all the things you do as employees — you have to keep some ties to that."
Ned Lilly, CEO of xTuple, a software development firm in Norfolk, has a similar philosophy.
"Almost everybody is doing some work at home," Lilly said, but "whenever possible we like for people to be here....
By Vanessa B. Hidalgo
Business solutions provider e-Methods for Business Management Corp. (e-MBM) in partnership with xTuple headquartered in Virginia, USA, to distribute and implement xTuple products in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.
Open source is changing the world and OpenSource.com has resources to prove it
Unlike the venerable groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, my bullish prognostication for 2013 that “ commercial open source is simply a better model and is at its inflection point for growth ” is bearing fruit. Big business and governments around the world agree. Case in point, “ City of Munich stands by its...
I have a good friend who was a producer of the cult TV show " Veronica Mars " from 2004-2007. Recently, the creative team behind that show made Internet history in an interesting way — they partnered with the website Kickstarter, a resource for crowdsourced fund-raising, to raise millions of dollars to underwrite production of a "Veronica Mars" feature film. As of this writing, over 50,000...
By City of Norfolk
What's happening in Norfolk, Virginia. Programs focusining on life-long learning and economic vitality are bringing new buildings, new programs and a new excitement to this seaport city.
Receiving national and international awards and recognition, companies like Grow Interactive, xTuple, and others are taking Downtown by storm, and changing the face and shape...
By Ashley Dotterweich
If you think you think all ERP systems are the same, then you haven’t tried xTuple yet. We spoke with Ned Lilly, CEO of xTuple and author of blog "The ERP Graveyard," and he filled us in on how xTuple is applying open source ethos to the business software world. Read on to learn how xTuple is tackling its next big endeavor: taking xTuple’s open source solution...
By Nick Kolakowski
SourceForge’s Rich Bowen recently sat down with xTuple CEO Ned Lilly to discuss the latter’s latest project, an ERP platform called PostBooks® (it’s SourceForge’s project of the month for March), and what it takes to build an effective business platform at a time when it seems like every IT vendor on the planet is interested in that particular segment.
By Community Team
SourceForge is delighted to announce that the March project of the month is PostBooks®. Postbooks is an ERP and I’m speaking with Ned Lilly, who is the CEO of xTuple, the company behind this project, to talk about what that means, and where the project is going.
NORFOLK, VA
xTuple PostBooks® ERP is voted by the open source community as SourceForge Project of the Month (POTM), CEO Ned Lilly announced, highlighting the hugely important role the global community of open source users plays in the company...