“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.”
This brief video covers some usability and interactive design principles that went into the creation of Openbravo version 3 - a third generation web based, commercial grade Open Source ERP system released in 2010. Openbravo is at the same time a state-of-the-art web based application as well as a mature and proven ERP system. In addition, you can use Openbravo as a base platform to rapidly build and deploy custom enterprise applications.
This 30 minute tutorial style video can be used to quickly learn how to use and navigate the Openbravo user interface. This video was created by John Fandl of Agility ERP and covers the bases so you can navigate, query and enter transactions in Openbravo. It is a great starting point for new users to become familiar with Openbravo navigation and use.
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.
A brief tutorial that teaches you about the Openbravo 3 Audit Trail feature, including a functional demonstration, a list of configuration steps, and a discussion of the business benefits.
This brief tutorial video will show you some of the options available to personalize the Openbravo user experience without programming. These functions are available to end users for individualized experience, can be used by business functional leads to create and administer the user experience for their department or can be used by the IT staff to guide company-wide usage.
In a complex enterprise or web business, many network components, servers and database components work together in concert to deliver end- to-end services. Intermittent or chronic performance issues can be very difficult, time consuming and stressful to pinpoint. Agility ERP consultants solve this by using AppDynamics to proactively troubleshoot, monitor, and continuously assess your business-critical enterprise applications.
Here is an interesting and easy to understand perspective regarding DevOps from Rackspace - an innovative hosting company. The Technical Operations group of TDS (parent company to Agility ERP) uses Rackspace to support clients looking for a hybrid hosting facility that can handle both physical and cloud deployments models from a single provider.
This is a tribute to Winston Royce (an early computer scientist and the inadvertent pioneer of waterfall development). In this video, Maxim Dorofeev takes a somewhat comical look at the downside of waterfall development and how an iterative approach will produce better results.
An interesting perspective on the early history of the DevOps movement. How did DevOps start? What is the deal with the name? Where did this all of this come from? Why did DevOps emerge when it did?
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.
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.