Openbravo is the world’s most complete and scalable open source ERP Platform, featuring modular architecture and a model-driven core that automatically generates a powerful browser UI and REST web services based on your data model. Openbravo embeds a fully integrated set of best-in-class open source IT building blocks including workflow (Activiti BPM), reporting (JasperReports) & analytics (Openbravo Analytics), as well as an integrated mobile web framework — making Openbravo the most productive way to build end to end, multi-device user experiences that both end users and enterprise IT will love.
A model driven, modular and web based open source ERP application
As 6-time winner of the Infoworld Bossie (Best of Open Source) Award, Openbravo ERP is a well-recognized and established project in the global open source ecosystem. It is commercial backed by Openbravo, and leverages the Openbravo ERP Platform to deliver a broad, easily adapted functional footprint:
Quartz is a Java-based open source Job Scheduler that is embedded in the Openbravo ERP Platform, and many other enterprise applications. It is used to schedule the execution of asynchronous tasks, providing a very reliable mechanism to ensure that transactions get posted to accounting, information gets exchanged with external systems, etc.
Java is the most widely-used programming language in the enterprise, with over 9 million practititioners worldwide. The Java language and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) are used globally by nearly all major commercial software companies (Oracle, IBM, SAP, etc.), as well as large-scale open source projects like the Openbravo ERP Platform to provide the performance, developer productivity, and code quality required by mission-critical applications. The large number of enterprise-grade open source infrastructure and developer tools and frameworks written in Java make it the obvious choice for major server-side software development initiatives.
JasperSoft Studio is an Eclipse-based open source visual report designer that generates xml-based report definitions run by the JasperReports engine embedded in the Openbravo ERP Platform. If you have ever used a banded report writer like Crystal Reports, you will be immediately comfortable with JasperSoft Studio.
iReport Designer is a standalone open source visual report designer that generates xml-based report definitions run by the JasperReports engine embedded in the Openbravo ERP Platform. If you have ever used a banded report writer like Crystal Reports, you will be immediately comfortable with iReport Designer.
JasperReports is an open source Java reporting engine embedded in the Openbravo ERP Platform. It runs reports designed with free visual tools like the standalone iReport Designer or the Eclipse-based JasperSoft Studio.
Saiku is an open source Analytics Client, and serves as the UI component of the Openbravo Analytics Module. It uses the MDX language to seamlessly interact with the Mondrian cubes that Openbravo generates, allowing users to easily create, visualize and analyze information in graphical & pivot table formats.
Mondrian is an open source Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) engine, providing a key back end component of the Openbravo Analytics module. Mondrian cubes are automatically created from the Openbravo Application Dictionary, allowing business users to analyze large & complex datasets in real-time using visualization tools like Saiku & Excel.
Frepple is professional-grade, commercial open source supply chain and production planning & scheduling application that helps manufacturers minimize inventory investment, improve delivery performance and improve production efficiency. It goes beyond the capabilities of Openbravo’s traditional MRP and Purchase Planning to include capacity constraints, graphical scheduling, real time capable to promise, forecasting and demand management, and more. A bi-directional integration connector for the Openbravo ERP Platform makes Frepple a natural choice for Openbravo customers looking for an advanced planning and scheduling feature set that works seamlessly with Openbravo.
PostgreSQL is a powerful, enterprise-grade open source database system that is production-proven to multiple terabytes with OLTP workloads. It is freely available for easy on premise installation on all major server operating systems, and is also available as a scalable database cloud service (DBaaS) from trusted providers
Now owned by eBay, the Magento eCommerce platform serves more than 110,000 merchants worldwide and is supported by a global ecosystem of solution partners and third-party developers. Winner of Infoworld Bossie (Best of Open Source Software) from 2008 – 2009 and honorable mention 2010 (note: ecommerce category no longer tracked by Bossie starting in 2010)
The Pentaho Open BI Suite provides a full spectrum of business intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform that have made it the world’s most popular open source BI suite. Winner of Infoworld Bossie (Best of Open Source) from 2008 – 2011
Activiti is a light-weight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) engine that is embedded in the Openbravo ERP Platform. Activiti BPM core is a very fast and robust BPMN 2 process engine for Java that is freely distributed under the Apache license.
Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations worldwide. As the reference open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies, Tomcat provides a proven runtime environment to deploy Java-based enterprise applications like the Openbravo ERP Platform.
Eclipse is a widely-used open source development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. It is used globally by many enterprise open source projects like the Openbravo ERP Platform to enhance developer productivity and code quality.