Features of Open ERP

Open ERP has been specifically designed to help businesses improve their performances. Its functional coverage expands to all kinds of different areas. Open ERP is known to be very complete and extremely modular, with 350 available modules. It is based on a strong MVC architecture, with a distributed server, flexible workflows, an object database, a dynamic GUI, an XML-RPC interface, and customizable reports. The features are management accounting, financial accounting, inventory management, sales and purchase management, tasks automation, Human Resource Management, marketing campaigns, help desk, and point of sale.

The 12 Cardinal Sins of ERP Implementation

There are twelve major reasons for why companies get bogged down or fail in implementing ERP.

(1) Lack of Top Management Commitment
The propensity of top management to delegate the oversight of an ERP implementation to lower management levels often results in (1) being "out of touch" with critical events, or (2) the lack of understanding of the size, scope, and technical aspects of the project, and subsequently, the lack of proper commitment of time and resources required for a successful implementation. The result is a failure waiting to happen.

(2) Inadequate Requirements Definition
Surveys have shown that inadequate definition of functional requirements accounts for nearly 60% of ERP implementation failures. This is simply a matter of not comprehensively and systematically developing a quality set of functional requirements definitions. This leads to the second greatest cause of ERP implementation failures: poor package selection.

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ERP for Ruby on Rails Applications

Looking for an enterprise solution for your business which is powered by a Ruby on Rails application? If you are running a Ruby on Rails based web application be it a SAAS or an e-commerce site, and you do not have a back end system for automating the business processes for your growing enterprise, then your search stops here. We offer a seamless way of integrating your Ruby on Rails application with OpenERP, a python based open source ERP which has Desktop as well as Web interfaces.