Allan RegenbaumAllan Regenbaum

Director, Emerging TechnologiesDirector, Emerging Technologies

Allan RegenbaumAllan Regenbaum

Director, Emerging TechnologiesDirector, Emerging Technologies

Changing the Economics of Changing the Economics of Business Software with Compiere.Business Software with Compiere.

The Rules have changed

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$$$$$TCO

EfficiencyROI

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2008 Best of Open Source Enterprise Applications

A different approachPerceived value of software has reduced

Most systems duplicate functionality

Its hard to find good programmers

Economy

Move $$ to add value

Leverage what has been built

Reduce custom software, increase configuration, easy to extend, web services.

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Integrated ERP and CRM Functionality

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Compiere’s Disruptive Economics

Largeenterprise

Mid-market

SmallBusiness

Compiere

$high thousands/user Cost of Solution $low hundreds/user

MicrosoftDynamics

SageGroup

Exact

Epicor

Agresso

SAPAll-In-One

Lawson

Infor

NetSuite

OracleEBS

PeopleSoft

JDE E1

SAPBusiness

One

SAPByDesign

SAPmySAP

ERP

Source: Compiere derivative work based on Forrester Research “Next-Generation ERP Strategies,” Sept. 2007.

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Modern Web Architecture and UI

First mid-market ERP

with a modern RIA

Web architecture

Great user experience

› Rich functionality

› Personalized user interface

Standards-based design

› Service Oriented Architecture

› AJAX features through open

source Google Web Toolkit

Built for SaaS, On-premise, Cloud or Appliance deployment

Customization without Programming

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Add new fields and tables

Change window layout

Change field names

Default values by user

Dynamically hide fields

Set security at the row/field level

Add new windows

Create entirely new Applications

• Business logic stored in applications dictionary not hard-coded into programs

• Configure and extend Compiere without programming

• Customizations remain in place, even through software upgrades

Instant Web Services

Web Services engine is based upon the dictionary› All existing, and any new tables are exposed as web

services all the time.

› Always On

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Application Dictionary WEBCompiere

3rd Party

SalesForce

* RESTFul

Automated Upgrades

Migration Technology upgrades customer to the latest version

All Dictionary-based configurations & extensions remain in place

Partner developed applications can be upgraded in the same way

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Source System

Prior Compiere Version + Configurations + Extensions

Upgraded System

Latest Compiere Version + Configurations + Extensions re-applied

CompiereMigration Server

1. Connect to Migration Server

2. Select new target version

3. Upgrade Automatically

Platform Summary

Dictionary Based

Web Interface

Minimal programming

Fast Config

Web Services

Open Source

Cost Effective

Powerful Migration

Multi host options

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Possibilities

Basic Demo

Value Assessment› TCO Analysis› Boardroom Pilot

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