Compiere Blog

Compiere Continues to Grow

Today Compiere announced the opening of a product development and support center in Noida, India, located near the capital of New Delhi.

The development and support center, which is fully operational, represents significant growth in capabilities, skills and geographical presence needed to address the expanding customer demand for Compiere solutions. The office is staffed by experience application software development, test and support engineers.

Read the press release for additional details.

CIO Top Priorities for 2008

Every year Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) surveys CIOs for their top business and technology priorities for the coming year. According to the 1500 CIOs who participated in the survey, this year's top priorities are:

Top 10 Business Priorities	Ranking	Top 10 Technology Priorities	Ranking
Business process improvement	1	Business intelligence applications	1
Attracting and retaining new customers	2	Enterprise applications (ERP, CRM and others)	2
Creating new products and services (innovation)	3	Servers and storage technologies	3
Expanding into new markets or geographies	4	Legacy modernization, upgrade or enhancement	4
Reducing enterprise costs	5	Technical infrastructure	5
Improving enterprise workforce effectiveness	6	Security technologies	6
Expanding current customer relationships	7	Networking, voice and data	7
Increasing the use of information and analytics	8	Collaboration technologies	8
Targeting customers and markets more effectively	9	Document management	9
Acquiring new companies and capabilities (mergers and acquisitions)	10	Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and service-oriented business applications (SOBA)	10

source: Gartner, Inc.

The conclusion I draw from the survey results is very clear: if you want to make progress against the top CIO priorities, business process automation with a solution like Compiere Professional Edition is essential.

You can read the survey results announcement at gartner.com

Google Video: Compiere's Use of Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

Compiere was recently featured in the Google Video: Compiere’s Use of Google Web Toolkit (GWT).

The latest version of Compiere 3.0, specifically Compiere Professional Edition now includes the GWT-based rich Internet interface. Compiere Engineers Gary Wu, Chris Sprague and Di Zhao sat down with Google to talk about the natural choice of choosing GWT in Compiere Professional Edition. The team said that GWT helped to create a highly productive web experience for Compiere users in a short amount of time.

You can view the Google video at http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/. For more information about Compiere 3.0, please visit http://www.compiere.com/products/new-compiere-erp-3.php. 

New Compiere Service Pack Adds Web Reporting Features, Over 60 Enhancements

Compiere Service Pack 3.0.2 shipped today to Compiere Professional Edition and Standard Edition subscribers.  Read the press release and the Release Notes for additional details on the new software.

Compiere 3.0.2 validates our Commercial Open Source Release Model that brings innovative new functionality to market quickly, without sacrificing stability and supportability. The results of our recent eight-week product release cycle include expanded query and reporting capabilities in the Web UI, plus more than 60 customer-requested or community-contributed enhancements.

Compiere Service Pack 3.0.2 is available immediately to Compiere Professional Edition and Standard Edition subscribers, and through Compiere Authorized Partners.