In their annual ERP special edition, CIO Review recognized Agility ERP as one of the “20 Most Promising ERP Solution Providers.” CIO Review interviewed Agility ERP cofounder John Fandl to learn what our customers already know – that iterative and adaptive methods are superior to conventional approaches in achieving rapid and sustainable success.
“Unlike first-generation ERP systems, systems today behave more like a platform, allowing faster and “easier” incremental expansion of functionality over time through the purchase of new modules.” – AND – “Modularity is essential in today’s world to allow customers to build and evolve their ERP in a more flexible way and to allow the system to be more agile to suit the requirements of a modern business.”
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.
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.
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.
Find out why SAIC is using Openbravo. In this web interview, John Fandl interviews John Coble of SAIC. This is the $1.1B logistics group of a $10B / year defense contractor that is using Openbravo and Agility ERP services. Note: SAIC divested part of their business in 2023 which included this solution. The system has since been upgraded and is now in production on the Etendo platform.
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.