Open Source ERP Guru

In our last post we presented the first application released under the Open App Factory project – Inventory Transactions Viewer. Today we are adding the second application: Business Partner Locator.

The BP Locator application uses a Google map to display the location of any business partner you manage in your Openbravo system. There are two benefits to using the BP Locator:

1. Business partner address validation – the BP Locator will indicate how accurate the address of the selected business partner is. This is very useful as wrong address data can cost you a lot of money and some unhappy customers.

2. Instant access to contact info – from the BP Locator screen, you can easily access all contact info of your customer or vendor, such as email, homepage address or phone number.

All Open App Factory applications available to download from the project’s download page.

We plan to continue providing the community with more free, open source business applications running on top of open source ERP and CRM systems. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us.

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Business Partner Locator – Recorded Demo. Click image to view demo.

We are happy to announce that we are ready to add our own contribution to the world of open source ERP, with the alpha release of Open App Factory.

Open App Factory (OAF) is a set of business application widgets, running on top of open source ERP and CRM systems. The purpose of OAF is two-fold: extend functionality of current ERP and CRM systems, and improve user experience. A sample of such applications were published in past blog posts – here and here.

The first released application, available to download from our Sourceforge project page, is Inventory Transaction Viewer – an application widget which provides insight into historical inventory levels for a specific product (see recorded demo below). The Inventory Transactions Viewer was tested against an Opnebravo installation, and will probably work with Compiere also ( we will test that soon).

All applications are free and open source. A binary distribution is also available, so anyone with a working Openbravo installation can download, configure and use the apps.

We will continue to release free,open source business application widgets. If you have any ideas or suggestions, we’d love to hear from you.

Inventory Transaction Viewer Demo – click image to view