IDempiere

iDempiere
Developer(s) Community Development
Initial release October 31, 2012 (2012-10-31)
Stable release v3.1 (Maitreyi) / Daily release
Preview release devel-3.0 / Daily release
Development status Stable
Written in Java
Operating system Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris
Platform OSGi, Jetty, ZK (framework)
Available in English, German, Indonesian, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Romanian, Russian, Thai, Arabic, Bosnian, Portuguese , Catalán, Simplified Chinese, and many others
Type ERP, CRM, SCM
License GPLv2
Website www.idempiere.org

iDempiere Business Suite, also known as OSGi + ADempiere, is an open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. It has also customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) functions. It is in contrast to proprietary or most other open source ERP solutions driven only by a community of supporters.

iDempiere is a winner of Infoworld's Bossie award for best open source software application, awarded in 2015.[1]

Features

iDempiere supports:

History

In 2015, iDempiere won the Bossie Awards 2015 for best open source applications. On version 3.1 Apache Tomcat was replaced with Jetty 9.2.3,[2] and the ZK framework was upgraded to ZK7.0.3.

In 2011, due to disagreements in the former ADempiere developer community[3] they decided to use the new name iDempiere for the code path with the new OSGi architecture. So iDempiere can be seen as the next generation of ADempiere or as a fork of the ADempiere Branch GlobalQSS Adempiere361.[4] The majority of the active developer community started to work on iDempiere.[5] The first big difference made on iDempiere vs ADempiere was the platform technology upgrade to the OSGi framework that allows iDempiere to have plug-ins.[6] Also Jboss was replaced with Apache Tomcat improving the performance and memory footprint. Further upgrades are a new automatic build system based on Eclipse Buckminster, a major ZK upgrade (from ZK3.6 to ZK6) which allowed to redesign the web GUI. With the new OSGi framework, a lot of third-party modules made on Adempiere have been updated as plug-ins in iDempiere, such as SmartPOS and Libero modules.[7][8]

2006 ADempiere itself is a fork of the open source version of Compiere.

1999 Compiere was founded by Jorg Janke [9] who worked previously for Oracle in Germany and the USA.

Platform

iDempiere consists of a Java server (based on a Jetty container) with a ZK web GUI. It has also a Swing Desktop Client. It uses the OSGi framework for modularization. It has Oracle and PostgreSQL database support.

Technology

Application dictionary

This is a feature of iDempiere that extends the concept of a data dictionary to an "Active Data Dictionary" that lets it manage entities, validation rules, windows, formats, and other customizations of the application without new JAVA code. So iDempiere can be seen not only as an ERP but also as a platform to build database driven applications.

Plug-ins

The second feature of iDempiere are the plug-ins to modify or extend the ERP, CRM and SCM functionality. The wiki allows users to rate the known plug-ins in the plugin market,[10] some types of plugins are:

Workflows

iDempiere has a Workflow Engine based on WfMC standard, to manage document workflow process and BPM requirements.

Web application

iDempiere is a web software that works in Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer browsers that allow users to open related records quickly and easily via links.

Reports

Performance indicators

iDempiere Performance indicators

Performance graphs are set from measure calculation via Application Directory.

Customization

In iDempiere is very simple to create new tables to add specific business information. Only the advanced work of information may require programming in Java

Versions

Release date[12]

 Version number

Notes

October 31, 2012 1.0.a Halloween Edition ()[13]
  • First official version
  • Alpha version
April 24, 2013 v1.0b Devina Beta version
June 27, 2013 v1.0c Devina LTS[14] Stable version
October 31, 2013 2.0[15] Stable version
October 31, 2014 2.1[16]
  • Stable version
  • 266 weekly downloads[17]
October 31, 2015 3.1[18] (Maitreyi) Daily maintained version
  • Stable version
  • 411 weekly downloads[17]

Community

iDempiere is a project with a high activity,[19][20] supported by a worldwide community of committed people organized as a decentralized bazaar. There is no single person or company ruling the project or many of the parts, much like the wiki websites, build server, trackers, forums, etc. The community includes end users, implementers and subject matter specialists.

There are active local communities in Japan, China, USA, Germany, Indonesia, Brasil, Malaysia, Colombia, India, Russia, and other countries.[21] Wider reception comes also through speeches held in open source conferences like de:OpenRheinRuhr [22] and on Universities.

The best ways to be connected with the community are the wiki, forums and chats like:

World Conferences

Development prerequisites

To build the iDempiere Project one needs[29] Eclipse, Buckminster and MercurialEclipse (optional).

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Bossie Award 2015". infoworld.com. Retrieved 2015-09-16.
  2. ↑ "Platform Upgrade for r3". Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "Adempiere Contributors". Open Hub. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "http://www.adempiere.com/Branch_GlobalQSS_361". www.adempiere.com. Retrieved 27 September 2015. External link in |title= (help)
  5. ↑ "Compare ADempiere and iDempiere (ADempiere vs. iDempiere)". Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  6. ↑ "First look at IDempiere". walkingtree.in. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  7. ↑ "SmartPOS 2.0 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  8. ↑ "Online plugins conversion documentation". red1.org. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  9. ↑ Jorg Janke
  10. ↑ "Category:AvailablePlugins". Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  11. ↑ "JasperReports redesign". Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  12. ↑ "Downloads". Retrieved 2014-03-09.
  13. ↑ "iDempiere release 1.0.a Halloween Edition". Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  14. ↑ http://wiki.idempiere.org/en/Category:New_Features_v1.0
  15. ↑ "Category:New Features v2.0". Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  16. ↑ "Category:New Features v2.1". Retrieved 2014-10-31.
  17. 1 2 "iDempiere = OSGi + ADempiere files". Retrieved 2015-11-07.
  18. ↑ "Announcing release 3.1 Maitreyi". Retrieved 2015-11-07.
  19. ↑ "Project Summary". Retrieved 2014-03-10.
  20. ↑ "About Project Activity Icons". Retrieved 2014-03-10.
  21. ↑ "Download statistics sorted by contries". Retrieved 2014-03-12.
  22. ↑ "speech 2013". Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  23. ↑ "iDempiere Wiki". Retrieved 2014-03-12.
  24. 1 2 "Resultados de la búsqueda en grupos de idempiere". Retrieved 2015-08-16.
  25. ↑ "IDempiere/Full Meeting Minutes". Retrieved 2014-03-10.
  26. ↑ "IDempiere World Conference 2015". wiki iDempiere. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  27. ↑ "iDempierean Conference this March in Bonn". facebook.com/iDempiere. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  28. ↑ "IDempiere World Conference 2013". wiki iDempiere. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  29. ↑ "Build the iDempiere Project using Eclipse with buckminster". Retrieved 2014-03-10.

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