Conventional and hosted applications thrive, but open source ERP is coming on strong. Here's how to choose the best type of solution for your own institution. The rise of open source ERP does not, ...

xTuple, a startup maker of open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, announced Wednesday that it has certified its OpenMFG and PostBooks software products for use on Apple’s new Mac OS ...

Business leaders often assume that overhauling existing or implementing new ERP software is expensive and does not lead to high returns on investment. This is not necessarily true, according to Diogo ...

When you consider the entire universe of ERP deployments, few companies have adopted open-source ERP software. Even the most established and longest-lived project, Compiere, mostly attracts companies ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: The recessionary time has forced businesses to minimize their IT expenditure. Enterprise spending on proprietary applications too took a hit. Today in any business scenario, as ...

There's a paradox operating in the enterprise apps world. On the one hand we have the mega vendors with proprietary technology. On the other hand we have millions of developers who love open source.

When Mark Alperin went looking to replace his aging ERP system in 2006, he found himself in the same place as many CIOs of midsize companies—not feeling terribly sought after by software vendors who ...

At first blush, Scott Rosa’s experience parallels that of other successful open-source ERP adopters. But the path to success wasn’t straight. The CTO of Prevention Partners, which manufactures and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Most of the publicity about open source software recently has centred around Linux. Indeed, to many people, open source software and ...

The goal of ERP isn’t simply to provide a unified application interface for every aspect of a company’s business process — it also tries to include the inherent data-mining capabilities that go along ...