Compiere Blog

Compiere eLearning: New Open Items and Payments

In response to our customer’s learning needs, Compiere is providing a new eLearning Module that covers Open Items and Payments. The latest eLearning module teaches users to quickly retrieve information on the current “Open” or unpaid invoices as well as past due invoices. This module will also cover adding a bank and a bank account, receiving payments from customers, and submitting multiple payments to multiple vendors at once.

The new eLearning module is included in the Compiere eLearning series. You may purchase the entire series or simply purchase the “Open Items and Payments” eLearning module separately.

Learn more about all twelve modules by visiting the eLearning Page. To try eLearning products before purchasing, check out ‘Navigation in Compiere’ free of charge.

The New Compiere Web Site

Compiere is changing the economics of business software by making ERP easier. In addition, we are changing our corporate identity and web experience. See for yourself at our newly updated web site, www.compiere.com

I encourage you to explore some of the exciting new features on the site:

• Clean and clear site wide navigation, including an improved site architecture and navigation scheme
• Updated descriptions of product capabilities, platform advantages, global-ready features, open source benefits and value-added services
• A new Industries section describing Compiere advantages for the Distribution, Retail, Professional Services and Manufacturing industries.
• A new, easier to use partner locator
• Improved descriptions of Compiere services and Editions.

While much is new with the web site, the tried and true Compiere advantages continue into the future:

• Compiere products deliver powerful ERP & CRM functionality, enabling businesses around the globe to automate financial, distribution, sales and service processes…quickly, affordably and easily.
• Compiere’s Model-drive Application Platform provides unparalleled flexibility to adapt Compiere to unique and changing business needs, typically without programming
• Compiere, Inc. continues to invest in creating ERP and CRM product innovations and in delivering valuable services to the Compiere community
• Compiere ERP & CRM is freely available via an OSI-approved open source license

Our goal for the site is to provide customers, partners and developers with a single reliable source of information for all things Compiere. We are happy to share our new web site and enhanced vision with you today, and will continue to provide additional services through the web site in the future. If you have suggestions on how to improve the site, please contact us.

Compiere Hits 1.2 Million Downloads

Last week, Compiere passed a wonderful milestone: 1.2 million downloads on SourceForce.net. This is an amazing achievement for an enterprise software application. Compiere is the only enterprise software project on SourceForge.net today with more than 1 million downloads. At 1.2 million downloads Compiere leads the next most downloaded enterprise software project by more than 20%.

This achievement is a testament to the creativity, effort and perseverance of our two founders, Jorg Janke and Kathy Pink. As we continue to grow the company, we plan to be able to share even more success stories with current and potential users of Compiere.

Gathering Feedback

As we work to prioritize our new product features and improvements for 2007, we want to get input from our broad community of users, customers, and partners.  What product features and improvements would you like to see in Compiere?

If you are interested in contributing to this community effort by making suggestions for new features and product improvements, please add a reply to our SourceForge thread on the “Compiere Direction and Suggestions” topic.

I will be summarizing this input later this week and early next week to use as we work with Don Klaiss, Compiere CEO, to set our priorities for the Compiere product in 2007 and beyond.

Will Compiere Remain an Open Source Product?

Shortly after joining Compiere as the new CEO, people began asking me about my plans for Compiere and whether we would be evolving from an open source business model to become a proprietary product. The answer is absolutely not! I joined Compiere because I believe that Compiere can be a successful commercial open source company and because I was excited about the Compiere technology, product and community. Open source is an important part of Compiere’s business model and is a key differentiator over proprietary ERP/CRM products. With more than 1.1 million downloads of our software, we have become by far the most popular open source ERP project. I look forward to working with our customers and partners to create an even more active, vibrant community around our technology.

I spent most of last weekend at the Open Source Think Tank 2007 event meeting with other open source leaders, industry experts, and enterprise CIOs. At this event, I spent quite a bit of time listening to CIO’s describe what they are looking for from open source companies as well as discussing different approaches and business models with fellow CEO’s. There is a lot of experimentation in the commercial open source arena, but what is clear is that collectively we are able to deliver far greater value to the market than traditional, proprietary vendors.

Compiere has a few different areas of focus for 2007 including an increased focus on our open source community, expanding our partner program to include development partners, support for an open source database and other open source technologies, improved user interfaces, additional support offerings, and more. We think that 2007 will be a big year for Compiere and our extended community!