Part of OpenERP's ingenious design allows you to easily adapt core modules, or develop new modules quickly at a low cost. Using the object-orientated software design principle of inheritance, a module can be modified or extended and without risk of breaking existing functionality. Being Open Source Software, OpenERP is easy to integrate to other applications like Salesforce.com, or logistical and financial companies you trade with like UPS or HSBC. These are significant benefits to any company investing into a business critical EPR application and OpenERP delivers very strongly in each area.

It is a fact of modern business life that no single application or database can satisfy all needs. Additionally, organisations are required to interact more intelligently with each other when doing business, meaning their systems must talk to each other and streamline processes. This is why we need integration.

 

OpenERP provides an excellent interface to its application layer through XML over RPC (Remote Procedure Calls). It also communicates very well with other applications or databases in the same manner. Due to the Open nature of the code, integration is particularly achievable for OpenERP systems over a proprietary counterpart.

 

To date, Publicus Solutions Ltd. has successfully integrated to UPS, Paypal, HSBC, Postcoder, EasyCollect Direct Debit, Salesforce.com, Magento, amongst others.

OpenERP is developed on an application framework called Open Object. The design of Open Objet provides an extremely efficient interface for writing business applications. It also allows for modification of core OpenERP modules, while retaining security and functionality, to suit whatever business requirement. New moudles can literally be programmed in matter of minutes. View a demonstration

 

For a business investing in an ERP, knowing that your critical application will be easy to modify to your ever-changing and dynamic requirements is vital. Knowing that this can be done in a quick and cost effective way is just as important. Since OpenERP is written entirely in Python it makes coding simple, fast, clear and easy.

OpenERP supports numerous platforms and browsers. The desktop program can run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Additionally the web client supports Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and Chrome.

OpenERP is a modern system. A lot of the power of OpenERP comes from using other Open Source software and technologies which are extremely well engineered and provide a host of benefits. Compared to applications which use Java, coding the same functionality in OpenERP takes 1/10th of the time - this is a proven fact! Additionally, software systems that have been around for decades are encumbered with hundreds and thousands of lines of ancient code struggling to do tasks that are delivered out of the box for newer technolgies. OpenERP makes use of a gigantic set of Python libraries and tools which mean it does not have to invent them, making it easier to code. It also runs on an Enterprise calibre database in PostgreSQL, providing excellent performance.

 

Since these technologies like Python and PostgreSQL continue to be enhanced and developed, so too are these benefits absorbed into OpenERP making the system better.

For organisations who operate with more than one entity, trade across borders, or operate in more than one country, OpenERP can cater for these requirements being fully multi-company/currency/lingual.

 

Multi-company functionality allows for consolidated financial statements, while still maintaining independent sales, purchasing, and billing sections.

 

Printed documents can be done in multiple languages and additionally user interfaces can also be run in hundreds of different languages, each with their own translation table so system terms are more familiar or correct in the native language for the audience.

 

Additionally fully featured capability for multi-currency transactions with currency exchange rates are possible with OpenERP systems.

The security function of OpenERP allows for security on every level from each and every specific field, to processes like creating billing documents, or workflows that involve increasing a customer's credit rating. User menus and interfaces are all fully customisable and security objects exist to ensure only the necessary or allowed parts of the system are accessible based on these settings. Additionally, the system runs on Linux primarily so the base operating system is extremely secure as is access to the database.