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« on: 10. March 2013., 11:02:07 »Last snippets overview, this time from: https://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/65165/bossie-awards-2012-the-best-open-source-applications-202530
- http://www.alfresco.com/
Enterprise content management is essential for most medium-sized and large companies nowadays, not to mention government agencies. These companies have Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, as well as HIPAA and maybe FERPA to contend with. While the "freemium" open source business model is still in place, the number of features that are present only in the enterprise edition (such as JMX MBeans) is dwindling. Alfresco 4 adds Activiti workflow, support for Apache Solr as an indexing system, and support for Google Docs, Twitter, and other social integrations. But it's the records management, SharePoint replacement, and open source Java that have us hooked on Alfresco. -- Andrew Ball
- http://gallery.menalto.com/
Is marketing trying to stick you with website development and maintenance? I say give them a way to manage the website themselves and be done with it! To that end, let them use Gallery for posting their photos and images. Gallery features geotagging support, batch editing of images, drag-and-drop watermarking, LDAP and OpenID authentication, and simple blogging functionality. You can use Amazon's S3 storage system to hold all the images for use with Gallery -- just send marketing the bill. There's even a third-party iOS app called viGallery that lets users upload pics from the iPhone or iPad and edit Gallery albums. -- High Mobley
- http://www.sugarcrm.com/
Sugar is your only real choice for open source CRM -- so it wins. Although it is extensible and has many mods, the spaghetti-ball of bad PHP makes this a costlier proposition than it ought to be, and the professional support and hosting options could be better. The shared hosting at SugarCRM is so horribly slow that even a small amount of data kills it, yet it isn't profoundly cheaper than Salesforce.com despite not being half as good. That said, if you need basic account, contact, opportunity, and lead management, then SugarCRM can deliver them at a fraction of the cost of Salesforce.com -- if you host it anywhere but at SugarCRM. -- Andrew Oliver
- https://www.vtiger.com/crm/
A fork of SugarCRM, vTiger is a powerful CRM with a host of features. There's only one edition, which is free and open source. In addition to the standard CRM capabilities, it includes what would be considered premium features in other CRM apps: sales orders, purchase orders, invoices, asset tracking, SMS notification, PBX manager, customer portal, mobile access, and workflows, to name a few. The community is large and active, and there's a lot of good documentation, plenty of third-party add-ons, and a new project called Tigress for making modifications without requiring code change. An inexpensive hosted version and third-party integration with Front Accounting are also available. -- Fred Blauer
- http://frontaccounting.com/wb3/
There are plenty of open source packages for small-business accounting. We choose FrontAccounting due to the quality of the system, the people behind it, and the community around it. Aimed at smaller businesses, the system is built on a PHP framework, and it runs on the standard LAMP stack. There is no SaaS option available, so you have to host it yourself or use one of the partners if you want to deploy in the cloud. FrontAccounting has been around for several years, and it's reasonably mature. The documentation and forums are pretty good. You'll also find good prebuilt connections to other "best of breed" projects for the likes of e-commerce and CRM. -- Fred Blauer
- http://www.gnucash.org/
GnuCash is the standout favorite in the personal finance category. It's mature, with a large and active community. The documentation is good, and there are a lot of useful features. GnuCash even has rudimentary small-business accounting functions, and many people have tried to use it as an accounting program. But it falls short if you need to take care of inventory control, order entry, purchasing, or time tracking. Think of it as a free open source alternative to Intuit Quicken. It has good bank reconciliation features, as well as investment tracking. -- Fred Blauer
- http://www.openerp.com/
Unlike some "dual license" projects, OpenERP provides only one edition of the software. Commercial versions add maintenance and support. The advantage of this business model is that you can start off with the professional version, then move back to the community version merely by dropping the services. (This is not typically possible with the dual-license model because different versions of the database make it impossible to "downgrade.") OpenERP is built on a Python framework that's easy to customize and extend. There are tons of third-party add-ons, almost all of which are free. -- Fred Blauer
EDIT devnullius: this program needs a better description...
- http://www.openbravo.com/
Openbravo is a fork of the original open source ERP app Compiere, now owned and supported by Consona. However, unlike Compiere, Openbravo has better community support and has not crippled the community version. In fact, there's only one edition of the system for everyone. This system is built on Java and designed for enterprise scalability, but there is a trade-off in terms of complexity when it comes to installation, customizing, and learning. You'll need a good consulting firm with a lot of experience with the technology stack or plenty of in-house expertise. There is a good partner network, ecosystem, and a wealth of third-party add-ons. -- Fred Blauer
- http://www.xtuple.com/
Open source ERP is still in the early stages, and xTuple is one of the pioneers. The project is going though a major transition from the Qt4 UI framework to Enyo, an open source Web/mobile HTML5 toolkit that came out of the WebOS project and is sponsored by HP. xTuple is a different sort of company, with its own business and software development philosophies, but you can't argue with its success. The company continues to grow at a healthy rate year after year, and while almost all of the other open source ERP projects have been forked, xTuple has not. That's a testament to the strength of the system. -- Fred Blauer
- http://www.liferay.com/
Liferay Portal is a full-on open source Web portal system. It gives you the building blocks you need to easily create a dynamic website. You can use it to create a basic Web presence, a customer-facing data portal, a Web-based collaboration system, or even a social Web platform. Liferay has a built-in document manager that lets you use multiple content repositories, and it speaks Microsoft SharePoint protocols so that you can use Microsoft Office in conjunction with the document repositories. Liferay is like LEGOs for Web apps and websites: It provides the blocks, but it's up to you to find the best way to use them to create the Web app needed for your organization. -- High Mobley
- http://diasporaproject.org/
Web junkies love to dream about federated social networks that replace Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr with open standards that let you share status updates and photos with your friends. One of the first of these to gain attention, Diaspora, is morphing to become even more open as some of the original developers move on. The code is open and ready to return control to us. All we need to do is build out our own sites, and we can stop worrying about Mark Zuckerberg watching and dictating everything we do. -- Peter Wayner
A TOTAL OF 26 CRAZY SUITES IS DISCUSSED IN THE ORIGINAL SLIDESHOW. YOU must CHECK IT OUT if you have any corporate aspirations, including medial! Go fish, by order of...
devnullius ; )
- http://www.alfresco.com/
Enterprise content management is essential for most medium-sized and large companies nowadays, not to mention government agencies. These companies have Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, as well as HIPAA and maybe FERPA to contend with. While the "freemium" open source business model is still in place, the number of features that are present only in the enterprise edition (such as JMX MBeans) is dwindling. Alfresco 4 adds Activiti workflow, support for Apache Solr as an indexing system, and support for Google Docs, Twitter, and other social integrations. But it's the records management, SharePoint replacement, and open source Java that have us hooked on Alfresco. -- Andrew Ball
- http://gallery.menalto.com/
Is marketing trying to stick you with website development and maintenance? I say give them a way to manage the website themselves and be done with it! To that end, let them use Gallery for posting their photos and images. Gallery features geotagging support, batch editing of images, drag-and-drop watermarking, LDAP and OpenID authentication, and simple blogging functionality. You can use Amazon's S3 storage system to hold all the images for use with Gallery -- just send marketing the bill. There's even a third-party iOS app called viGallery that lets users upload pics from the iPhone or iPad and edit Gallery albums. -- High Mobley
- http://www.sugarcrm.com/
Sugar is your only real choice for open source CRM -- so it wins. Although it is extensible and has many mods, the spaghetti-ball of bad PHP makes this a costlier proposition than it ought to be, and the professional support and hosting options could be better. The shared hosting at SugarCRM is so horribly slow that even a small amount of data kills it, yet it isn't profoundly cheaper than Salesforce.com despite not being half as good. That said, if you need basic account, contact, opportunity, and lead management, then SugarCRM can deliver them at a fraction of the cost of Salesforce.com -- if you host it anywhere but at SugarCRM. -- Andrew Oliver
- https://www.vtiger.com/crm/
A fork of SugarCRM, vTiger is a powerful CRM with a host of features. There's only one edition, which is free and open source. In addition to the standard CRM capabilities, it includes what would be considered premium features in other CRM apps: sales orders, purchase orders, invoices, asset tracking, SMS notification, PBX manager, customer portal, mobile access, and workflows, to name a few. The community is large and active, and there's a lot of good documentation, plenty of third-party add-ons, and a new project called Tigress for making modifications without requiring code change. An inexpensive hosted version and third-party integration with Front Accounting are also available. -- Fred Blauer
- http://frontaccounting.com/wb3/
There are plenty of open source packages for small-business accounting. We choose FrontAccounting due to the quality of the system, the people behind it, and the community around it. Aimed at smaller businesses, the system is built on a PHP framework, and it runs on the standard LAMP stack. There is no SaaS option available, so you have to host it yourself or use one of the partners if you want to deploy in the cloud. FrontAccounting has been around for several years, and it's reasonably mature. The documentation and forums are pretty good. You'll also find good prebuilt connections to other "best of breed" projects for the likes of e-commerce and CRM. -- Fred Blauer
- http://www.gnucash.org/
GnuCash is the standout favorite in the personal finance category. It's mature, with a large and active community. The documentation is good, and there are a lot of useful features. GnuCash even has rudimentary small-business accounting functions, and many people have tried to use it as an accounting program. But it falls short if you need to take care of inventory control, order entry, purchasing, or time tracking. Think of it as a free open source alternative to Intuit Quicken. It has good bank reconciliation features, as well as investment tracking. -- Fred Blauer
- http://www.openerp.com/
Unlike some "dual license" projects, OpenERP provides only one edition of the software. Commercial versions add maintenance and support. The advantage of this business model is that you can start off with the professional version, then move back to the community version merely by dropping the services. (This is not typically possible with the dual-license model because different versions of the database make it impossible to "downgrade.") OpenERP is built on a Python framework that's easy to customize and extend. There are tons of third-party add-ons, almost all of which are free. -- Fred Blauer
EDIT devnullius: this program needs a better description...
- http://www.openbravo.com/
Openbravo is a fork of the original open source ERP app Compiere, now owned and supported by Consona. However, unlike Compiere, Openbravo has better community support and has not crippled the community version. In fact, there's only one edition of the system for everyone. This system is built on Java and designed for enterprise scalability, but there is a trade-off in terms of complexity when it comes to installation, customizing, and learning. You'll need a good consulting firm with a lot of experience with the technology stack or plenty of in-house expertise. There is a good partner network, ecosystem, and a wealth of third-party add-ons. -- Fred Blauer
- http://www.xtuple.com/
Open source ERP is still in the early stages, and xTuple is one of the pioneers. The project is going though a major transition from the Qt4 UI framework to Enyo, an open source Web/mobile HTML5 toolkit that came out of the WebOS project and is sponsored by HP. xTuple is a different sort of company, with its own business and software development philosophies, but you can't argue with its success. The company continues to grow at a healthy rate year after year, and while almost all of the other open source ERP projects have been forked, xTuple has not. That's a testament to the strength of the system. -- Fred Blauer
- http://www.liferay.com/
Liferay Portal is a full-on open source Web portal system. It gives you the building blocks you need to easily create a dynamic website. You can use it to create a basic Web presence, a customer-facing data portal, a Web-based collaboration system, or even a social Web platform. Liferay has a built-in document manager that lets you use multiple content repositories, and it speaks Microsoft SharePoint protocols so that you can use Microsoft Office in conjunction with the document repositories. Liferay is like LEGOs for Web apps and websites: It provides the blocks, but it's up to you to find the best way to use them to create the Web app needed for your organization. -- High Mobley
- http://diasporaproject.org/
Web junkies love to dream about federated social networks that replace Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr with open standards that let you share status updates and photos with your friends. One of the first of these to gain attention, Diaspora, is morphing to become even more open as some of the original developers move on. The code is open and ready to return control to us. All we need to do is build out our own sites, and we can stop worrying about Mark Zuckerberg watching and dictating everything we do. -- Peter Wayner
A TOTAL OF 26 CRAZY SUITES IS DISCUSSED IN THE ORIGINAL SLIDESHOW. YOU must CHECK IT OUT if you have any corporate aspirations, including medial! Go fish, by order of...
devnullius ; )
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