Project info for Open for Business

Created 10 Jan 2008 at 00:07 UTC by ean.

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The Apache Open For Business Project is an open source enterprise automation software project licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0. By open source enterprise automation we mean: Open Source ERP, Open Source CRM, Open Source E-Business / E-Commerce, Open Source SCM, Open Source MRP, Open Source CMMS/EAM, and so on.

Apache OFBiz is a foundation and starting point for enterprise solutions, be they for one organization or one million. OFBiz can certainly be used OOTB (out of the box), but if you're looking for something that works really well for that there are many open source projects that do a great job there. OFBiz is great for creating specialized applications for use OOTB by other organizations. OFBiz is also great for organizations that need more than what an OOTB application can offer in order to grow their operations, but find the deployment and maintenance costs of traditional enterprise systems that can handle such things to be unreasonable or unjustifiable.

Being open source under the Apache 2.0 license and driven by a community Apache OFBiz offers both flexibility by design and by access to code, and a solution where you're not alone but rather can work with many others to get things done.

For answers to your questions you might find the following documents useful: Project Overview, Is Apache OFBiz for Me?, Feature List, and Features Coming Soon

For more technical information, see the Documentation page.

Apache OFBiz offers a great deal of functionality, including:

• advanced e-commerce
• catalog management
• promotion & pricing management
• order management (sales & purchase)
• customer management (part of general party management)
• warehouse management
• fulfillment (auto stock moves, batched pick, pack & ship)
• accounting (invoice, payment & billing accounts, fixed assets)
• manufacturing management
• general work effort management (events, tasks, projects, requests, etc)
• content management (for product content, web sites, general content, blogging, forums, etc)
• a maturing Point Of Sales (POS) module using XUI as rich client interface
• and much more all in an open source package!

License: Apache 2

This project has the following developers:

• ean is a Contributor.
• doogie is a Developer.

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