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OpenERP Apps for Open Source Business Applications
March 2011 by Marc Jacob
OpenERP is launching its Apps library, where all the OpenERP-based applications are open source! With more than 1,000 applications and growing, available for free, OpenERP Apps is one of the world’s biggest repositories of enterprise management applications.
OpenERP Apps comprises complete applications like CRM, Accounting and Project Management as well as very specific applications like fleet management, marketing campaigns automation, e-Commerce integration, point-of-sale, etc. OpenERP Apps also includes vertical applications related to specific sectors. As an example, you will also find applications for managing hotels, auction houses, training centers, book stores, manufacturing industries, etc.
The Wikipedia of management Software
Like wikipedia, the open source applications of OpenERP Apps are developed collaboratively by OpenERP Partners, Customers or members of the community. The best of these applications are quality certified and maintained in the long term by OpenERP SA.
The OpenERP community produces around 30 new applications every month which makes OpenERP the fastest growing suite of open source business applications. The development of these applications are organized on Launchpad, Ubuntu’s development platform.
In order to develop, test, translate and continuously improve these applications, the OpenERP community is organized into teams of people having different roles in the development process:
– translator teams, organized per country and language, translate and
review all new terms. Each language team has between 1 and 3 leaders who
are the only ones with rights to validate suggestions proposed by the
team to integrate in the application,
– expert teams are responsible for the quality control of the
specifications. They are organized into functional groups: usability
experts, financial experts, industry specific expert teams, marketing
experts, etc.
– localisation teams, organized by countries, are in charge of
implementing the accounting and the payroll specific rules per country,
– the community leader team is in charge of defining the way to organize
the community and the development process
– the quality team from OpenERP SA is in charge of reviewing all codes and
merge proposals before integrating improvements in the official
distribution of OpenERP.
