Compiere To Announce A Major Release
Sources within Compiere, one of the leading open source ERP vendors, tell us that a major release will be announced next week. Compiere have been working closely with customers to enhance its popular open source ERP offering.
The new release will include over 400 new enhancements (guess the Compiere QA team have been pretty busy..). A new Business View Layer will be shipped - this layer will provide simple and secure access to Compiere’s operational data, to be consumed by reporting and analysis tools.
Compiere’s decision to release the Business View Layer means it will focus entirely on developing ERP functionality, enabling business users to use their favorite reporting and analysis tools (Excel, Crystal Reports etc.) to analyze the relevant operational data.
Reporting and The Business User
Business users love reports. They want to be able to easily design,test and run the reports by themselves. Many of them are very familiar with office productivity tools and want to leverage that knowledge to analyze their ERP data.
From an ERP project perceptive, it is always a challenge to decide which approach to take - one approach is to provide an access layer to the ERP’s data and invest zero time and energy into developing a dedicated reporting engine within the ERP application. The other approach would be to develop reporting tools integrated into the ERP application itself. That would make it more simple for the user, as he needs to access only a single application (the ERP) to design and generate reports. The problem here is that users have so many requirements from a reporting tool that too often, too much development horsepower goes into reporting, at the expanse of core ERP functionality.
Compiere decided to forgo development of its own reporting and analysis tool and focus on core ERP functionality enhancement. We will testdrive the new Business View Layer and let you know what we think.
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