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1. Submitted by-
-Akanksha
-David Phillipowsky
-Rahul Kumar
-Samoneh
-Shweta Iyer

4.  Accounting, commercial & production suite for
micro and small enterprises or medium enterprises
with basic requirements
 It also offers basic functionality for purchasing, sales
and inventory management
 Functionality and user interface can be tested
online
 Migration scripts for upgrading from Quickbooks
and gnuCash also available

5.  Accounting data is stored in a SQL database server, for
the display any text or GUI browser can be used.
 SQL-Ledger is platform independent and runs on any
*NIX, Mac or Windows computer.
 It can be accessed remotely so people can be in
different parts of a city, country or across the world.
 The assembly feature can be used to build
manufactured goods from parts, services, labor units
and assemblies.
 When the assembly is sold all the accounts linked to the
individual items are updated and stock levels adjusted
accordingly.

6. 1. Customization
 Can be customized with external Perl modules and used
like a framework
 Code has to meet defined calling conventions and main
core needs not to be modified
 External module customizations apply on global or on
user level
 Sophisticated meta data customization without special
programming skills is not provided
 Layout for GUI and reports can be changed with
templates

7. 2. Flexible upgrades
 Depends on degree of customization
 When using external script approach, updates are
not a problem
3. Internationalization
 Language preference, comma and date formats
can be configured on user level
4. User friendliness
 Intuitive GUI

8. 5. Architecture
 3 – tier web architecture
 Web-based Perl program that interfaces with
PostgreSQL using the relevant Perl modules
 The code is well partitioned, and the main
operation modules are written in an object
oriented way.
 Software stack -

9. 6. Scalability
 Very scalable
 Two concurrent users can constantly (and rapidly)
add financial transactions and run into one query
that needs to be rewritten to accommodate
their performance needs over a space of more
than a year.
 With the right expertise, SQL-Ledger could be
scaled up indefinitely.
7. Security
 Access is controlled on user level
 Administration can grant several functionality
groups per module to a user
8. Interfaces
 CGI, SOAP, La Tex

10. 9. OS independence
 Independent and runs on any *NIX, Mac or
Windows computer
10. DB independence
 Mature open source database system, for data
storage, although already using Oracle or DB2,
these databases can also be used with SQL-Ledger
if preferred
11. Programming language
 Perl

11. 1. Support infrastructure
 FAQ and installation instructions on the download
page for various platforms available for free
 user and several active regional mailing lists on
which the developer pops in occasionally with his
inputs.
 Uses mailing list where there are questions &
comments of other users, that is active and
helpful.
 Online demo

12. 2. Documentation
 289 page manual
 Commercial development support contract
 The developer appears negative towards
community-based documentation, to buy theirs
 Community based documentation does exist to
some extent however it should not be relied on as
it may be incorrect.

13. 1. Project structure
 Run by DWS Systems Inc. , Canada & backed by
partners that provide customization & integration
services
 Partners located in Australia, Belgim, Italy,
Swizerland, Netherlands, U.K & U.S.A
2. Community activity
 150 – 300 mails a month

14. 3. Transparency
 Planned features and their progress are documented
 Bug tracking and versioning systems are not public
 Developer support is offered on a commercial basis
4. Update frequency
 Regular

15. 1. Development status
 Stable
2. Reference site
 Many reference site available
 Its Web site has only very superficial information
 There are a couple of helpful third-party Web sites,
but none with a great deal of detail

18.  Most popular ERP system nowadays
 Active community ( more than 900000 downloads)
 Targeted to small and medium companies operating in
distribution/ retail and service areas
 Most system released under GPL, professional Edition
available(purely proprietary)
 Functions: purchasing, material management & order
management ( few manufacturing functions)
 Functionality is organized along business processes:
- Quote-to-cash covers whole process from 1st
customer contact, pre-sales, sales and order actvities to
cash receive (strong CRM funtionality)
- Requisition- to-pay covers whole supplier process
from request, purchase order, request to payment

19. • CRM is integrated into other modules(not separate)
• Performance analysis covers accounting &
controlling
• Production currently in beta state and reference
customers are missing
• Web store delivers basic shop system (integrated
into other ERP system)
• Service management and basic project
management functionality available

20. 1. Customization
 Allows meta based customizations on the fly without shutting
down system
 Metabase is stores on the database in 114 tables called
Application Dictionary
 Can be modified with Compiere client having administrator
rights
 To create a new window database structure must be defined
first
 GUI consists of a window with several tabs and fields &
corresponding database elements

21.  Windows GUI structure input handling and validation, print formats,
default accounts, process buttons, menu structure and callouts are
defined in Application Dictionary
 Modifications generate model code
 For lower level customizations this can be extended with callouts,
document process workflows and SQL stored procedures
 Callout can change values of all fields in a window and access all
tables
 Further customizations are done following patterns followed by
Compiere
2. Flexible Upgrades
 Commercial migration tool supports high-level customizations done via
application dictionary and callout functions
 For changes in core code flexibility depends on patterns used

22. 3. Internationalization
 GUI & reports are translated into English, Chinese,
German, Spanish, French, Italian & Dutch
 Translation efforts in 26 languages
 Accounting schemes available for US, Spain, Italy, &
Germany
 Supports multiple sites by providing 3 entity levels
› System level (accessible by all organizations)
› Client level(multiple accounting schemes for single
client)
› Organization level(lowest level where transactions
are performed, virtual organizations supported)

23. 4. User friendliness
 Tabbed layout
 Supports a subset of rich GUI
 Ex. Master views are not possible on one screen
 Users complain of bad look and feel
5. Architecture
 Mixture of fat client 2-tier & 3-tier architecture
 Uses fat Java Client
 Accounting engine is on application server
 Thin web clients are used for web store and some
CRM functionality
 Beta thin client serving all forms

24. 6. Scalability
 On DB side
 Application is mostly 2-tier based and thus depends
on DB scalability
 Used application server supports clustering
 No cluster installation is documented
 Scalability is not proofed, but the used components
are known to scale well

25. 7. Security
 Compiere provides a complete application-level security infrastructure,
supporting role-based security, data security, data encryption and auditing.
 fully equipped with an application to implement security policies that protect
valuable corporate data from inappropriate or unlawful access.
 Role-based Security
- Each User account is associated with one or more roles.
- Roles are used to secure access to both data and functionality. An
inheritance-based model is used to grant or revoke privileges according to role.
 Data Security
- Robust data-level security is applied using Roles to restrict read and write level
access at the record or field level.
- With data security you have the ability to automate internal controls using
precise access rules, ensuring appropriate governance checks and appropriate
segregation of duties for transactions.
 security policies are in your control.

26.  Auditing
- Compiere provides the ability to audit any transaction in the
system, including changes to the
Active Data Dictionary (metadata).
- New transactions, changes to existing data and even queries of
specific records and fields can be
tracked in the audit log.
- The choice of how restrictive or open your

27. 8. Interfaces
 Emails can be sent and files can be attached to
documents
 Built- in reporting engine
 CSV export-import of data is provided by the
commercially available migration tool
 Other interfaces can be developed in Java using
APIs
9. OS independence
 Independent and runs on any Linux/Unix, Mac or
Windows computer

28. 10. DB independence
 DB abstraction layer is very SQL-centric
 Some open source DB’s are available as Sourceforge
side projects, but they are neither supported nor
tested
 Sybase also supported
 Runs under the Firebird database using
the Fyracle extensions, without porting SQL code for
PostGreSQL was translated manually
11. Programming Language
 Java

29. 1. Support Infrastructure (support services, support request, support
service exclusions)
 Provides various levels of support
 Support Services will be provided to customer's Authorized Users only
on unmodified versions of the Software
 Uses reasonable commercial efforts to respond to the Support
Request within the Response Time specified in the Support
Agreement
 Except if expressly provided, Compiere provides the support services
and software to customer and the authorized users "as is.“
 Customer agrees that as a condition of Compiere's providing the
Support Services, Customer shall migrate to the most current version
of the Software at least once per year using Version Migration
Services to enable & provide effective ongoing support.

30. 2. Training
 User & developer training
 Implementation Technique Documentation Pack
 Development Technique Documentation Pack
 Tutorial Video
 Online Q & A
3. Documentation
 User manual consisting of 850 pages
 Little developer documentation is available
 Auto generated API documentation in Javadoc
format is minimal
 Instructions on Community maintained developer
documentation( 36 pages) & Developer forums

31. 1.Product structure
 Company driven project, led by Jorg Janke
(based in Portland, US)
 Concentrates on development, second level
support & training
 Project management, planning and execution
 No implementation services no competition with
partners
 More than 70 partners sell consulting & consulting
services in at least 25 countries
 They determine development priorities
 Track costs associated with multi-phase projects
across your business solution.

32. 2. Community activity
 Active user community
 Responsive forums
 About 500 forum messages a month
 Support requests, bugs & feature requests tracked
separately
3. Transparency
 Project roadmap & detailed change log available
 Public services for bug tracking & change requests
 Public CVS access

33. 4. Update frequency
 Regular
5. Other lock-in effects
 PDF generation & migration tool need license
 Customers with support contract have access to
installable fixes & patches
 They get priority support & optional embedded
Oracle license

34. 1.Development status
 Stable
 Manufacturing and full web client in beta status
2. Reference site
 Many reference sites available
 Partners have customer cases on home page &
more details are provided during contracting
phase
 Few are presented on an open source conference
 Own Web site has accurate information
 Helpful third-party Web sites