Openbravo ERP instead of SAP? The past six years I worked with much pleasure in the SAP arena. I had the opportunity to work together with some of the larger corporations to help them achieve their ambitions. Part of my experiences is written down in this blog. Many people visit this blog on a daily basis and some of them leave me some wonderful messages. My contributions in last few months diminished, and will come to a total stop as of today.
The last two years my interest in the open source movement increased when I learned of the existing ERP alternatives at that time. As an ERP professional I was interested in to what extent these “free” software alternatives could actually fulfill commercial cutomers’ needs. Out of the ERP alternatives available I quickly focused on Openbravo ERP. Barcelona based Openbravo is the commercial organisation behind Openbravo ERP and Openbravo POS. In comparison with their open source ERP competitors Openbravo’s partner driven business model, heavy financing and marketing efforts instinctively won me over as the most professional alternative available. But what about the functionality of the software? According to some sites open source ERP is weak and I was admittedly a bit sceptical. As the English say: “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”. Hence I needed to give it a try.
Continue reading ‘Openbravo ERP : Moving into Open Source ERP’