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, ...

Can open-source software find a home in mission-critical systems? Based on momentum in the open-source ERP (enterprise resource planning ) market, it’s starting to look that way, particularly for IT ...

How about we play an ERP word-association game: I say “ERP costs” and what words come to mind? “Expensive”? How about “never ending”? “Increasing”? “Heartburn-inducing”? Do the words “cheap” or ...

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 ...

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.

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 are a handful of open source ERP solutions that can be considered business-ready --- thorough documentation, extensive technical and customer support, and a regular release schedule. Openbravo ...

BARCELONA, Spain & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Openbravo, the leading web-based open source ERP company, has announced a solution to address the needs of American small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) ...

Over the past year, a sort of openness has shaken up ERP, as the sector has grudgingly admitted that, well, yes, enterprise software other than ERP actually does exist--and it's time to reach out 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 ...