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ERP with Rich clients

OpenERP (formerly tinyerp)

Rich client (gtk, maybe kde) under linux and windows + server + web client. Based on python/turbogear.

They have good support for French, and some KDE-related things(!) in screenshots, though it's not very clear yet what this is.

They have some documentation, although I haven't proofread it yet.

Both rich client and web client. Both are clean/good. Huge number of modules. (stocks, french account, invoices,contacts, mails). Can only use postgresql.

Overkill for SME.

openMFG and postbooks

postbooks is the free version and openmfg the $$ one. The company behind those is 'xtuple' and it appeared several times in sf top 10 lists.

It uses a rich client (qt4 : linux/win/windows) and a database (two-tiers).

svn easily available from sf (though it's very very slow, as often with sf), using the url https://postbooks.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/postbooks/xtuple/trunk

There's no README or whatever, running 'qmake' (as there are *.pro files) gives "Project ERROR: Could not set the OPENRPT_DIR qmake variable." and not other helpful message.

http://opensi.org/

Use a (xul) firefox plugin to connect to the server. Not really 'rich client'.

Focused on accounting. Seems good, very professional. Some accoutants have helped designing it.

I was not able to test. There's no demo available online, but i got cvs sources (2005-12-13)

Now there is a demo, which doesn't work (2006) Their bugtracking doesn't work (gna), but the forum seems to be useful.

I managed to install the plugin, but never managed to connect to the demo "error 403"

2009-10-06 : tried to install the last 'client' and got the message "OpenSi 4.5.3 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.5.3."

They really have a problem with the QA

ERP / web-based only

openbravo

No demonstration ? this is a .com Supposed to be for 'small and medium sized companies', but it seems to be focused on not-that-small companies.

pro:

pimengest

php, pgsql

free& gpl, but doesn't do accounting. Everything else seems cool. Do CRM, billing, suppliers payements, stocks, time-tracking, permissions.

The demo site doesn't work (2004-11-16)


openaguila

said to be easy to use. But is never cited as competitor by the others (?)

You need to subscribe to reach the demo.


compiere

Not for very small companies.

adempiere is the result of a break between the corporation between compiere and the 'communauty'.

Mostly web-based. What they call 'client' is a 'webstart' stuff you download/launch from the website. Everything (server, client) is based on java.

tine20

Demo on http://demo.tine20.org. Web-based.

good:

bad:

2009-10-06 : tested the demo, editing a contact makes some js error and blocks the application. I dont know if this is possible to add several notes+date to a contact.

openbluelab

Not a lot yet, but promising. No rich client ?

neogia

Developped in java, accessed through a web browser. The main interest is the financial module, called tercompta, created by, for, and according to French chart of account.

dolibarr

php,mysql,apache... Most notably for french companies.

invoice , taxes(tva), bare minimum on accounting

Once used by orzel for his invoices, but the software is a nightmare to maintain/update. i gave up.

CRM only

sugar

LAMP Used internally by KDE e.v.

vtiger

LAMP. a fork from sugarcrm (reason : sugar not free enough)

tested on january 8th, 2009, version 5.0.4:

pros:

cons:

2009-10-06 : the demonstration is looking great, though as there's no 'fake' data it's quite hard to get an idea. Got quite a lot of bugs, such as "Fatal error: Call to a member function FetchRow() on a non-object in /home/vtiger/demo/fr/demo/include/database/PearDatabase.php on line 42" when clicking on "prospect" or "TCPDF error: Unsupported image type: gif" when trying to export pdf.

eggcrm

The webpage contains screenshots, demo, documentation and download, though lot of stuff is in French only.

LAMP-based.

Used and recommended by a freelance sales manager working for one of orzel's client.

It's the new kid on the block.

pros:

cons:

2009-10-06 : i'm impressed by the demonstration. It works, it's much simpler than others, and it's even beautiful.

To see

http://www.pimentech.fr/pimentech/site/solutions/pimengest (web) http://obm.aliacom.fr/ <---- agenda pas ininteressant... LinCompta, FreeGica...

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