The Free Openbravo Enterprise Management Software  is considered by many around the world as a flexible, scalable, and affordable software. The solution is primarily targeted to the small and mid size businesses, that are looking for an integrated management system for their daily business operations. The Free OpenBravo ERP Package is capable of managing daily operations, optimizing business processes, improving customer satisfaction finally leading the company toward profit.

This Free ERP for Small Business includes some rudimentary CRM capabilities and a big collection of routines for tracking goods through the warehouse to delivery which is how it got its name as an ERP. There are a handful of open source ERPs in the market now, that can be classified as business-ready, (thorough extensive documentation, good technical and customer support, and a regular release schedule, and this ERP is undoubtedly one of them!

This Free Openbravo ERP Software consists of powerful features such as, business intelligence, procurement management, warehouse management, project and service management, financial management, production management, sales management and a customer relationship management system, all of which are fully functional.

Openbravo is mainly a collection of database tables with a nice front end. It is written on Java with many of the classic Java libraries like Hibernate and JasperReports. The front end of the ERP is built out of a custom templating engine that takes XML files, and outputs them in HTML. If the user wants to create custom forms and data structures, he or she can work directly within the templating engine.

Though the web pages are pretty straightforward, one thing is that, they’re not particularly AJAX-like. This is because this Free ERP Package for Business focuses to navigate with the keyboard alone, a capability that’s pretty popular at back offices where people need to work through form after form endlessly.

A big concern about open source has always been about its interoperability. It has been a concern for many ,i.e, whether it would work with what’s already in production? But this free ERP was successful in erasing those concerns somewhat, supporting both proprietary Oracle and open source PostgreSQL databases.

Those who have been using, or have downloaded the Free ERP software may have noticed that it isn’t as polished and compelling as many of the web sites out there, but I don’t think anyone will bother about the fact, after spending, a few minutes with this amazing software.

 The professional version is available as an “appliance” kit that offers in the same bundle Tomcat, Oracle, and Apache. Moreover a light weight version is there that offers, a point of sale (POS) application that can work with MySQL. As it’s a Java-based application, this free ERP software also requires Tomcat and an Apache Web container that specifically handles Java Servlet and JSP.

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