Word from the CEO: Empowering the Ecosystem: Manel Sarasa

Starting off with a short overview of open source´s constant evolution in today´s global market, and how Openbravo is enabling this change in the ERP space, this session will elaborate on the strategic actions Openbravo is taking to empower its ecosystem in order to consolidate the business model with community objectives, while building the best product possible.

 

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The Impact of Open Source in a Down Economy: Richard Daley

Open source software has received a lot of attention over the past few years as end user organizations recognize the opportunity to address high-value business applications, while reducing costs, by taking advantage of commercial open source solutions. Now, a number of factors are changing the motivations and approaches for  the adoption of open source software, including the global economic outlook, Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and open source product maturation. A new wave is coming in open source that will change the way in which end user organizations consider and adopt open source software, as well as the way in which commercial open source vendors evolve their strategies for delivering customer value.

 

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Third Party Integration with Openbravo

 

Openbravo in the Ecosystem: Integrate it into the Information System: Talend: Sandra Massé, Channel Manager EMEA

Managing enterprise processes requires input and participation from all departments across a company. To ensure successful execution of their initiatives, enterprises must have agile and high-performance operations that guarantee seamless interoperability of applications and databases, as well as fluidity of data throughout their information systems.

 

In this context, the ERP cannot be viewed as a standalone system, but as a component of the overall information system. Ensuring its interoperability with other applications is therefore essential. This is why Talend and Openbravo have worked together to prokenvide the tools needed to easily customize and integrate business processes and data.

 

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The Case for Openbravo ERP on Ubuntu Server Edition: Canonical: John Pugh, ISV Manager

The key to implementing a successful solution begins with simplifying the installation. Join us in this informative session to hear about the Ubuntu-Openbravo partnership, how Canonical and Openbravo can bring you world class support on an enterprise class operating system, and see how the success of Ubuntu´s community-driven development will unite with the Openbravo Community.

 

This session will provide details on the Canonical-Ubuntu-Openbravo partnership, brief details on where the Ubuntu distribution is headed, and how community involvement makes for a Linux distribution that can be matched by no other.

 

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Expanding Openbravo´s Market Reach with DB2, IBM: Antonio Maranhao & Boris Bialek, Lead Data Management & Solutions LATAM

At this seminar we will present several benefits, both from the technical and business perspectives, of having DB2 as a supported relational database management system (RDBMS) for Openbravo ERP. Currently, Openbravo ERP only supports Oracle and PostgreSQL as an underlying RDBMS. This fact can impose a restriction when it comes to reaching certain customers that rely on other database vendors such as IBM. These customers are usually not willing to change their infrastructure to adopt a different RDBMS as that would incur extra costs with licenses and personnel training on the new technology. DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows is a widely used RDBMS that delivers top performance for both OLTP and OLAP applications and provides hands free administration for several platforms.

 

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Deployment Advances from Sun for the System Integrator: Sun: Pedro Yagüe, Telco CBU Architect

Glassfish, an enterprise-quality and highly scalable open sourced Java EE 5 application server meets the needs of developers and enterprises of any size. OpenSolaris is an open source operating system with highly popular features such as DTrace, ZFS, Zones. Coolthreads-based Chip Multithreaded servers are highly scalable from 24 threads to 256 threads at fantastic price/performance advantage. Open Storage-based Sun Unified Storage Solutions combines open source software with industry-standard hardware, enabling you to reduce your reliance on highly-priced systems and save up to 90% on storage costs. 

 

Come get up to speed on the cutting-edge technical advances in application server, operating system, server and storage technologies.

 

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How to Interact with the JasperForge Community: Jaspersoft: Tim Cloonan, Director of Marketing

With more than 8 million copies downloaded, 10,000 customers in 96 countries, and over 90,000 community members, JasperSoft is the most widely-used business intelligence software in the world. JasperReports is the reporting engine in Openbravo ERP. Find out more about how to interact with the JasperForge community at this session.

 

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B-Orange: Business Momentum Integration: Ron Kramer, Managing Director

Bonware and Business Momentum have joined efforts and created B-Orange. B-Orange is a subscription based SaaS offering which is available to Openbravo Partners to resell to their own clients. B-Orange is based on standard Openbravo code with added functionality, the biggest difference being that it is not a product,  but rather a service. The B-Orange concepts show how both development capacity as well as using a different business model can create a new business ecosystem with huge opportunities.

 

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Openbravo Customer Stories: How the Community is Benefitting

 

Qualian Technologies (case Vaishnovi Infrastructure): Senthil Palanisamy
This session provides a case study that manifests how Openbravo ERP was customized and modules added, to ensure the right fit for a the customer´s needs. The partner helped Vaishnovi Infrastructure, based in India, to overcome the challenge of gaining control over a complexity of operations, from managing critical resources, to providing a timely service to the customer.

 

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Opensistemas (case Bocatta): Álvaro García Hernández de Alba, Sales Director (presented by Andreu Bartoli)

This partner brings an excellent POS case study, based on an implementation for their customer, Bocatta, one of the largest fast food restaurant chains in Spain. Openbravo POS provided a complete solution which allows the chain to effectively manage all product and order information via touch screen TPV terminals, a system able to adapt to their growing business and integrate with other management software.

 

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Bonware (case Kehä Caravan Tukku): Ville Lindfors, Chief Technology Officer

This session will provide attendees with a case study on automating the wholesale supply chain, sales and invoicing with Openbravo ERP at Kehä Caravan Tukku, a wholesale distributor of caravans and accessories in Finland. It will also explore the concept of providing an e-commerce and a POS solution for resellers.

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Product Roadmap: What's in Store for Openbravo?: Paolo Juvara

This session describes the product roadmap and the release planning process for Openbravo ERP. In this session, attendees will discover how product priorities are determined at Openbravo, what trade-offs need to be made and how new product features are selected for a specific release.

 

This session will also cover what are currently considered the most important priorities for the core product and for the whole ecosystem.

 

This is an interactive session where attendees will be given the chance to voice their opinion and to influence the product roadmap. Advice will be given on how to exercise this influence above and beyond the Openbravo World Conference and how to best make an opinion heard within the Community.

 

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Meet the Management Team

CEO Manel Sarasa, CTO Paolo Juvara, COO Josep Mitjà and VP of Global Commercial Operations Cees Poortman will be answering questions from the audience during this session, which will be moderated by Jordi Mas, Director of Community Development.

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Word from the CTO: Creating an Open Source ERP Ecosystem through Modularity and Core Contributions: Paolo Juvara

Creating a vibrant ecosystem around an open source project is vital to the success of the project itself. It is very rare, in fact, that the primary sponsor of a project is able to succeed alone. Successful projects require an active Community that contributes to, and extends the project with additional functionality and value-added services.

 

This session looks at examples from other projects and discusses what lessons Openbravo has learned from those experiences.

 

It also describes what role Openbravo believes it should be playing within its Community and what it expects the Community to do, in order to achieve a successful open source ERP ecosystem.

 

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Openbravo Forge Presentation: Jordi Mas, Director of Community Development and Essentia´s Rayesh Iyer, Vice President of I.T.

During this session Openbravo Forge will be presented. Openbravo Forge allows users to register projects and to have access to tools such as bug tracking, Wiki, Subversion and forums. These tools provide a collaborative environment in which Openbravo developers can design, develop, test and support Openbravo extensions and developments. Additionally, Openbravo Forge allows the commercialization of Openbravo community products.

 

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The Community Imperative: Matt Asay

Open source contributes to higher-quality software, less vendor lock-in, and lower prices. But the real benefits of open source really start when enterprises, system integrators, and others actively collaborate with open source communities like Openbravo. The day the community becomes bigger than the company, everybody wins.

 

In this presentation, Matt Asay will describe the various benefits that come from participating actively in open source communities, and will address Openbravo's efforts, in particular, to build a product that welcomes community involvement.

 

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Localization: Opening New Markets and Developing Unchartered Territory: Richard Morley

The advent of modularity in Openbravo ERP 2.50 brings significant changes in the way that localization capability can be developed, delivered and packaged, not only for Openbravo, but for all members of the Openbravo community.

 

It also brings increased opportunity for Openbravo and its community to jointly contribute "value add" features to the core, while at the same time increasing the breadth and depth of available localization packages. A key component to this is the vision of what Openbravo considers core functionality, what it views as localization, and the relationship between the two concepts.

 

Join this interesting and informative session to hear how Openbravo and its partners have already leveraged these opportunities to address some of the challenges of new markets.

 

This session will also present an insight into a vision of an evolving localization ecosystem in which all may thrive; the unchartered territory.

 

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Localization Round Table:

This interactive session will explore the various challenges met during a Localization project, and stir a discussion about the experience that Openbravo Partners have acquired during the process.

• Bonware (Finland
• Axège (France)
• SEN (Venezuela)
• Veloton (Germany)
  
• More to be confirmed at the event... please speak to the event organisers if you wish to take part

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Building Modules: Best Practices: Ismael Ciordia

Modularity is an abstract concept defining the ability of certain systems to be composed from separate parts - called modules. But how does it work in Openbravo? What can be done in an Openbravo module? What cannot be done? How does it improve maintainability? How decoupled is the life cycle of a module with the life cycle of its dependencies? How can a customization  be developed so that it can later be shared and reused? .

 

During this session all these questions will be answered through user stories and real modules. The types of modules and artifacts, dependency management, maintainability and module life cycle will all be described, without going into high-level technical details.

 

The session will provide a concrete understanding of how Openbravo modularity works and attendees will be able to transform ideas for functional enhancements to Openbravo ERP into a clear pathway to implementing them through modules. And since a number of interesting modules will be presented, attendees may be inspired with new ideas...

 

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Openbravo ERP Extension Modules

 

Mobilizing Openbravo: Elondra: Narciso Cerezo, Chief Executive Officer

The session will describe the Openbravo 2.5 module developed by Elondra in collaboration with Openbravo that seamlessly integrates the benefits of mobilizing a company's sale force using standard Java phones, into the features of Openbravo.

 

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Exploiting BPM + ERP Implementation Opportunities: Colosa's ProcessMaker: Brian Reale, Chief Executive Officer

This session will discuss how to find additional opportunities, how to analyze and size up the opportunities correctly, and how to take advantage of natural integration points between BPM and ERP. The talk will conclude with a brief demonstration of an integration module between ProcessMaker and Openbravo that Colosa will be launching at the Openbravo World Conference.

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Pragmatic ERP - ETO: Kennovation Software Services: Rajiv Gadre

This session focusses on the challenges faced by the ETO (Engineered-to-Order) / MTO (Made-to-Order)  manufacturers. Special features and benefits of "Pragmatic ERP - ETO", an Openbravo ETO extension module, will be demonstrated with respect to the specific requirements of this segment.

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Download Kennovation’s demo “ETO Module for Openbravo” here

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Introduction

The Openbravo Community awards were organized and sponsored by Openbravo to honor individuals and companies for their outstanding contributions to the Openbravo ERP and POS projects. The standards for companies and organizations were higher than for individuals, proportionally to their level of resources.

 

Since the objective of the awards was to recognize peoples' contributions beyond Openbravo's activity, the participation of Openbravo employees was limited to contributions done outside the scope of the individual's responsibilities on the job.

 

The process consisted of two phases:

We had 28 nominees and more than 1000 votes!

 

The Individual Awards acknowledged people that have allocated time and resources to make Openbravo POS or ERP better projects.

• Best Quality Assurance. An individual with outstanding contributions in the area of Quality Assurance.

  • Ville Lindfors - villind. Impressive number of critical bugs reported in Openbravo ERP (98).

  • Ronny G. Ronny is very active reporting issues for Openbravo POS and closely follows every change in the development branch of the code repository of Openbravo POS. 

  • Juan Reyes. He has contributed to the Openbravo ERP 2.50 alpha releases. He has participated in the first 8 alpha releases, executing the smoke test. He has been the most active person during this cycle.

  • Naveen Chanda. Naveen has been a strong participant in the Openbravo ERP 2.40 alpha and 2.35 MP4 testing cycles, testing those releases on a number of platforms. He reported 8 defects, all of which were confirmed. Naveen is also a very active participant in Openbravo ERP forums. 

  • Jignesh. Nominated for his contribution in testing and documenting Openbravo ERP on OpenSolaris, and his current work on load testing Openbravo ERP on that platform. 

  • Paulo Leandro. Paulo has been a strong participant in the Openbravo ERP 2.35 MP1, 2.40 alpha and 2.35 MP4 testing cycles, helping Openbravo proving those releases in a number of platforms and validate the functionality, in particular in the Sales area.

  • Winner: Naveen Chanda. Strong participation in the Openbravo ERP 2.40 alpha 2and .35 MP4 testing cycles on a number of platforms and actively participated in Openbravo ERP forums.

• Best localizer. An individual with outstanding contributions in the area of localization.

  • Jens Wilke. For creating the first version of Openbravo2PO during 2007. Lead the first effort to fully translate Openbravo ERP into German language, also presented Openbravo ERP at LinuxTag. 

  • Mohammad Jaffar Fahmi. Mohammad has translated Openbravo POS to Arabic. This translation is the most popular translation package of Openbravo POS and also Mohammad had to deal with the technological difficulties of translating Openbravo POS to an RTL language. 

  • Kenzo Repole. Kenzo is the localization leader for Saudi Arabia Openbravo ERP translation. Besides developing the Arabic translation, Kenzo has been instrumental in developing support for right to left languages and contributing it to Openbravo. This important capability has become part of the Openbravo ERP core for release 2.50.

  • Winner:  Mohammad Jaffar Fahmi. Translated Openbravo POS to Arabic, the most popular locale for Openbravo POS. Has overcome technical challenges related to translating Openbravo POS to an RTL language.

• Best developer. An individual with outstanding contributions in the area of software development.

  • Ben Sommerville -eintelau. He had discovered a security bug and attached a patch to correct it. He also had translated Openbravo ERP to Australia. 

  • Ronny G. Ronny has developed several snippets for Openbravo ERP and has also published these in the Openbravo wiki, while providing support in the forums. 

  • Ville Lindfors. Ville has been involved with Openbravo ERP for many years now and has contributed countless commits to the Openbravo ERP core code line, both in terms of defect fixes as well as improvements, with particular emphasis on security and performance. 

  • Andrej Svininykh. Andrej has developed several features for Openbravo POS and integrated some new devices like scales and receipt printers. 

  • Winner: Andrej Svininykh. Developed several features for Openbravo POS and integrated some new devices like scales and receipt printers.

• Best support participant. An individual with outstanding participation in Openbravo support channels.

  • Miguel Marquez - mmarquez. Has provided 115 forum posts in 2008, most of them helping newcomers to Openbravo ERP. 

  • Jimm. With more than 350 messages, Jimm is one of the most active participants in the Openbravo POS forums. He provides detailed messages which provide help to users with problems running Openbravo POS. 

  • Enric Alegre. He has been one of the strongest supporters in the Openbravo ERP forums with 165 forums messages during 2008. He is also collaborating with the Valencian regional government as part of Openbravo’s academia program to help introduce Openbravo to students.

  • Victor Gaspar. Gaspar is nominated for starting the idea and contributing to some of the Code Snippets: pieces of code for Openbravo ERP that you can reuse in different places. 

  • Telepieza. Nominated for his dedication to documenting HOWTOs for Openbravo ERP in Spanish. 55 of them are currently available. 

  • Winner: Telepieza. Dedicated in documenting HOWTOs for Openbravo ERP in Spanish (55 of them are currently available).

The Technology Awards recognized outstanding projects lead by companies or organizations build on top of Openbravo technology.

• Best localization. An organization with outstanding contributions in the area of localization.

  • Amorebieta-Etxanoko Udala. The Amorebieta-Etxanoko Udala has developped Euskara language translation for Openbravo POS. 

  • Mancomun.org. An initiative from the government of Galicia to promote free software. They have localized Openbravo ERP (partially) and Openbravo POS to Galician language. 

  • CBT Open. CBT Open made a very significant contribution to Openbravo ERP in release 2.40 by developing, as part of the Italian localization, the withholding tax functionality. 

  • Kelyon. Kelyon has been a very active contributor to the Openbravo ERP Italian translation in particular and the Italian localization in general. Their work in the translation pioneered the processes of collaborative translation and their work has been seminal in the refinement of tools such as Openbravo2PO and the POMerge functionality. The collaboration between CBT Open and Kelyon is a model that Openbravo would like to see replicated in other markets. 

  • Apal Informatique. Apal Informatique has completed the Romanian translation and localization for Openbravo ERP 2.40, sharing their work with the whole community.

  • Winner: Amorebieta-Etxanoko Udala. Sponsored the Euskara language translation for Openbravo POS.

• Best implementation. An organization that performed an outstanding implementation of Openbravo in a challenging environment.

  • Open Sistemas. Open Sistemas has deployed the largest Openbravo POS implementation. They have deployed Openbravo POS in Bocatta, a fast food chain in Spain with more than 60 shops. 

  • Conasa. Conasa participate, develop and install a vertical solution based on Openbravo ERP for religious services. This development let Openbravo ERP introduce their system in a new specialized market. Some of the modules developed were patrimony, loans and savings. The development is based on version 2.40 with PostgreSQL. 

  • Microgenesis. Their customer have challenging technological and business requirements. The project started one year ago and is replacing a SAP R/3 installation for Openbravo ERP. 

  • Qualian Technologies. Implementation of Openbravo ERP in Vaishnovi Infrastructure Private Limited, India. Implemented for the customer with one production facility and 23 branch locations spread across India, with more than 100 users in a company has more than 1000 employees. Customer deals with international suppliers & local suppliers. Handled special financial instruments like LCs (Letter of Credit). Developed a custom CRM application to handle the sales visits of Sales person and capture the details about in and around of a customer. 

  • Winner: Conasa. Participated, developed and installed a vertical solution for religious services based on Openbravo ERP 2.40 with PostgreSQL.

• Best development. An organization that performed an outstanding development based on Openbravo.

  • Open Sistemas. For Bocatta, Open Sistemas developed a lot of features on top of Openbravo POS aimed at the fast food business. 

  • Software Engineering Research Center. The Software Engineering Research Center in Pakistan is a members of the Openbravo ERP academia program. They are teaching Openbravo in Pakistan, contributing to the Openbravo ERP core with bug fixes, and working regularly with the development community. 

  • Winner: Open Sistemas. Developed many features, now part of Openbravo POS, for fast food business

Note: A localization may include a translation, chart of accounts and code customizations.

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