Openbravo POS Tickets, Customer Common View Prototyped, LinuxWorld KicksOff
Today’s news roundup - Openbravo’s POS runs Portland’s public transportaion ticketing, OSA builds a central customer view and LinuxWorld 2008 starts tommorow.
Openbravo POS Manages Portlands’ Public Transportation
Matt Asay, a true open source Guru, VP of business development at Alfresco, points out that Portland’s public transportation authority chose Openbravo’s POS solution, after closely evaluating it against the largest commercial POS (Point Of Sale) solutions. Last weeks’ OSCON 2008 conference was held in Portland, and although the place was buzzing with hordes open source practitioners, I doubt many knew the public transportation tickets they bought were issued by an open source POS application.
Open Source Single Customer View
ERP systems (and the businesses using them) are built around two main objects - customers and products (or services). These two objects are being analyzed on a daily basis by different business users. It can be argued that the real ROI on an ERP project revolves around the ability to centrally manage these two objects and to provide a coherent view of the states of these objects in real-time.
In the modern business application landscape, customers require special treatment. The competitive environment is so unforgiving that dedicated software was written to manage customers lifecycle - CRM. When a company manages its customers using ( at least) two separate business applications (ERP and CRM), integration is a must.
An that is exactly what the guys at OSA (Open Solutions Alliance) are doing. From a business user perspective, being able to view all relevant customer information from a single screen is a must-have. OSA have been working on a prototype integration between Openbravo ERP, Concursive CRM, Adaptive Planning ( open source financial planning ) and Jasper BI server.
You can download a recorded demo of the prototype here.
LinuxWorld 2008 Starts Tomorrow, August 4th
A reminder - The annual LinuxWorld conference will kick off tomorrow in the beautiful city of San Francisco. Open source ERP vendors xTuple and Opnebravo will exhibit. The Open Solution Alliance will demo its CCV (Customer Central View) demo during the conference.
If you are located in the Bay area, this conference is definitely worth a visit. And if you attend, I’d love to get some freebies - Linux conferences tend to yield the most innovative freebies of all conferences.
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