OpenERP Vs. Openbravo

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OpenERP Vs. Openbravo

July 20, 2010 Trackback Pragmatic by Administrator

Advantages of OpenERP over Openbravo (OpenERP Vs. Openbravo)

OpenERP and Openbravo features things like MRP1. OpenERPs technology is much better (in terms of ORM, BPM or modularity being there or not yet) than the Openbravo one which is still mostly inherited from the old Compiere PL/SQL.
The OpenERP current features are also way more complete, especially in project management, HRM and CRM.
The fundamental difference between Openbravo and OpenERP is different technology.Openbravo is a millions of lines of non OOP PL/SQL, XML CDATA sections. But OpenERP runs on python and simpler cherry-pie.
Openbravo modularity is poor compared to OpenERP- no way to add screen extension points, no component oriented UI, method granularity is almost always several hundreds lines of PL/SQL- if a module want to override something: he hardly can call super, he should copy/paste/change a whole PL/SQL procedure.
Unlike OpenERP, Openbravo has no BPM engine to abstract the workflow logic.
Openbravo does not use ORM in their core (Hibernate is used ) hence their performance is slow.
Openbravo development cycles are really slow compared to OpenERP, Openbravo screen are generated using static HTML.

Here listed are advantages of OpenERP comapred to openbravo.

Technology

Openbravo

OpenERP

Java and Javascript
SQL and PL/SQL
XML
XHTML

Python
SQL and PL/SQL
XML

Architecture Components

Openbravo

OpenERP

WAD (Wizard for Application Development)
Application MDD (Model Driven Development) Dictionary
MVC (Model, View, Control) Foundation Framework

MVC framework
- the PostgreSQL database server.
- the Open ERP application server, which contains all of the enterprise logic.
- the web server, a separate application called the Open Object client-web.

Technology advantages of OpenERP

Features	Openbravo	OpenERP
Licence	Mozilla License but it has an added clause	OSI approved GPL licence
Client	Only web client	Desktop (GTK client2) and web client
Perfomance	Java based, requiers high performance server	Python based hence faster than java
Ease of customization	Code is very complicated, one need to invest quite a bit in education	Simple core. After some study it's possible to easily achieve very complex tasks

Business Applications

Openbravo

OpenERP

Receivables and Payables
Bank Statements
Payment Status Management
Budget

Accounts Receivables (AR)
Accounts Payables (AP)
Asset category.
Assets.
Asset usage period and property
Recurring Entries
Reversal Entries
Analytical accounts
Budget

Financial Management

Financial Management advantages of OpenERP

Features	Openbravo	OpenERP
Partial reconciliation of entries supported
Automatic reconciliation
Reports on multi company chart of accounts
Automatic currency conversion in transaction
Reversal and recurring entries
Multiple levels for analytical accounting and budgets

Dashboard

Openbravo

OpenERP

Company
Customers
Product Category
Sales People
Warehouses

List of the next tasks to carry out,
A list of the next deadlines,
Public notes about projects,
A planning chart of hours
The timesheet

Dashboard advantages of OpenERP

Features	Openbravo	OpenERP
Graphical representation
Customer portal- to access sales order, quotation
User customizable

Procurement

Openbravo

OpenERP

Purchase planning
Purchase orders
Receipts
Purchase invoices

Request for quotation (RFQ)
quotation
Price comparison

Procurement advantages of OpenERP

Features	Openbravo	OpenERP
Minimum stock rules
Just-in-Time Support
Purchase Tenders

Manufacturing Management

Openbravo

OpenERP

Minimum stock rules
Just-in-Time Support
Purchase Tenders
Manufacturing plan

Make to Stock / Make to Order (by line)
Multi-level BoMs, no limit
Multi-level routing, no limit
Routing and workcenter integrated with analytic accounting
Scheduler computation periodically / Just In Time module
Multi-pos, multi-warehouse
Different reordering policies

Manufacturing Management Advantages of OpenERP

Features	Openbravo	OpenERP
Batch sizes
Management of defective material
Just-in-Time
Management of assembly lines
Real time detection
Gantt manipulation

Human Resources

Openbravo

OpenERP

Employee information
Time sheet
Payroll
Attendance

Employees and hierarchies
Work hours sheets
Attendances and sign in/out system
Skills management
Training

Human Resources Management advantages of OpenERP

Features	Openbravo	OpenERP
Payroll- Allowances and deductions
Ability to manage expense
Employees periodical evaluation forms
Integration of timesheets

Sales Management

Openbravo

OpenERP

Sales Order
Invoice Terms
Goods Shipment
Price Applications

Workflow with validation steps
Invoicing methods:
Partners preferences (shipping, invoicing, incoterm, ...)
Products stocks and prices
Delivery methods:
Generate a CRM case for the partners.
work tax inclusion

Sales Management

Sales Management advantages of OpenERP

Features	Openbravo	OpenERP
Ability to generate invoices based on manufacturing orders
Auto computation of taxes

Project Management

Openbravo

OpenERP

Multiphase Projects
Expense Sheets
Project Progress

Multi-level projects, tasks
Service projects
contact on project
Synchronize between Project task and CRM
Integration of project management and timesheet

Project Management Advantages of OpenERP

Features	Openbravo	OpenERP
Dynamic Gantt chart
Dynamic Calendar
Real-time status on tasks
Integration between tasks and timesheets
Integration with Outlook and Thunderbird
SCRUM methodologies

Total cost Ownership

Features	Openbravo	OpenERP
Cost of data importation	Uplaod frm csv	Upload from excel sheet, ETL
Cost of customizations		Ability to customize layout of reports without development
Migration system for major new versions		Automatic migration of the data/logic/workflow without external scripts Migrations included in the maintenance contract
Pricing	Annual subscription: From €500 to €400 / per concurrent user* (based on volume), 3 user minimum + cost of customisation, implementation, support	No user based costing, Pay for the customisation and support