Openbravo
Encyclopedia
Openbravo is a commercial open source
software company. The head office of Openbravo S.L. is located in Pamplona
, Spain
. A sales office is located in Barcelona
. The company is responsible for the development of two products: Openbravo ERP and Openbravo POS. For the worldwide distribution and implementations of its software, Openbravo relies heavily on its partner network. The company is a member of the Open Solutions Alliance
, a non-profit organization working for open-source standardization. Openbravo is three-time winner of Infoworld
's Bossie award for best open source software application for Openbravo ERP, last awarded in August 2010.
, Nicolas Serrano and Ismael Ciordia. They were both involved in the mid 1990s in developing the management of the university. They used emerging Internet
technologies while doing their work, and subsequently introduced a new approach for web applications. Their concept was realized in a new company called Tecnicia, which was founded in August 2001 by Serrano, Ciordia, and Aguinaga. In 2005, two management consultants, Manel Sarasa and Josep Mitjá, were asked by a venture capital company to evaluate Tecnicia and prepare a business plan for its evolution. In 2006, the two consultants joined Tecnicia as the CEO and COO respectively. Around the same time the Spanish investment company Sodena invested 6.4 million USD in the further development of the company. In 2006 the company is renamed Openbravo. In 2007 the company announces the acquisition of LibrePOS, a web-based Point-of-Sale (POS) application for retail and hospitality businesses. LibrePOS is then rebranded to Openbravo POS. In May 2008 Openbravo attracts three more investors, Amadeus (UK), GIMV (Belgium) and Adara (Spain) for a second investment round totalling 12.5 million USD. This investment launches Openbravo as one of the leading open source companies with substantial resources to further develop its products and services.
business solution for small and medium sized companies
that is released under the Openbravo Public License, based on the Mozilla Public License
. The model for the program was originally based on the Compiere
ERP program that is also open source, released under the GNU General Public License
version 2. The program is among the top ten most active projects of Sourceforge
as of January 2008.
Using Openbravo, ERP organizations can automate and register most common business processes. The following processes are supported: Sales, Procurement, Manufacturing, Projects, Finance, MRP and more. Numerous commercial functional extensions are available on the Openbravo Exchange which can be procured by users of the Professional Subscription version of Openbravo ERP. This paid-for version offers additional functionality compared to the free Community Edition (such as: integrated administration tools, non-technical tool for updates and upgrades, access to Openbravo Exchange and a Service Level Agreement
). Characteristic of the Openbravo ERP application is the green web interface
through which users maintain company data in a web-browser on their PC or PDA
. Openbravo can also create and export reports and data to several formats, such as PDF
and Microsoft Excel
.
Openbravo's Java
-based architecture focuses on two development models:
These two models allow for integration with other programs and for a simple interface.Because of the application of open standards Openbravo ERP can be integrated with other open source applications like Magento webshop, Pentaho Business Intelligence, ProcessMaker BPM, Liferay Portal and SugarCRM.
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
software company. The head office of Openbravo S.L. is located in Pamplona
Pamplona
Pamplona is the historial capital city of Navarre, in Spain, and of the former kingdom of Navarre.The city is famous worldwide for the San Fermín festival, from July 6 to 14, in which the running of the bulls is one of the main attractions...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
. A sales office is located in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
. The company is responsible for the development of two products: Openbravo ERP and Openbravo POS. For the worldwide distribution and implementations of its software, Openbravo relies heavily on its partner network. The company is a member of the Open Solutions Alliance
Open Solutions Alliance
The Open Solutions Alliance is a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving adoption of comprehensive open business solutions...
, a non-profit organization working for open-source standardization. Openbravo is three-time winner of Infoworld
InfoWorld
InfoWorld is an information technology online media and events business operating under the umbrella of InfoWorld Media Group, a division of IDG...
's Bossie award for best open source software application for Openbravo ERP, last awarded in August 2010.
History
Openbravo's roots are in the development of business administration software which was first developed by two employees of Engineering School Tecnun of the University of NavarraUniversity of Navarra
The University of Navarra is a private pontifical university based at the southeast border of Pamplona, Spain. It was founded in 1952 by St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei as a corporate work of the apostolate of Opus Dei....
, Nicolas Serrano and Ismael Ciordia. They were both involved in the mid 1990s in developing the management of the university. They used emerging Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
technologies while doing their work, and subsequently introduced a new approach for web applications. Their concept was realized in a new company called Tecnicia, which was founded in August 2001 by Serrano, Ciordia, and Aguinaga. In 2005, two management consultants, Manel Sarasa and Josep Mitjá, were asked by a venture capital company to evaluate Tecnicia and prepare a business plan for its evolution. In 2006, the two consultants joined Tecnicia as the CEO and COO respectively. Around the same time the Spanish investment company Sodena invested 6.4 million USD in the further development of the company. In 2006 the company is renamed Openbravo. In 2007 the company announces the acquisition of LibrePOS, a web-based Point-of-Sale (POS) application for retail and hospitality businesses. LibrePOS is then rebranded to Openbravo POS. In May 2008 Openbravo attracts three more investors, Amadeus (UK), GIMV (Belgium) and Adara (Spain) for a second investment round totalling 12.5 million USD. This investment launches Openbravo as one of the leading open source companies with substantial resources to further develop its products and services.
Openbravo ERP
Openbravo ERP is a web-based ERPEnterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...
business solution for small and medium sized companies
Small and medium enterprise
Small and medium enterprises or small and medium-sized enterprises are companies whose headcount or turnover falls below certain limits.The abbreviation "SME" occurs commonly...
that is released under the Openbravo Public License, based on the Mozilla Public License
Mozilla Public License
The Mozilla Public License is a free and open source software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation...
. The model for the program was originally based on the Compiere
Compiere
Compiere is an open source ERP and CRM business solution for the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise in distribution, retail, service and manufacturing...
ERP program that is also open source, released under the GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
version 2. The program is among the top ten most active projects of Sourceforge
SourceForge
SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free software / open source software applications .While originally itself...
as of January 2008.
Using Openbravo, ERP organizations can automate and register most common business processes. The following processes are supported: Sales, Procurement, Manufacturing, Projects, Finance, MRP and more. Numerous commercial functional extensions are available on the Openbravo Exchange which can be procured by users of the Professional Subscription version of Openbravo ERP. This paid-for version offers additional functionality compared to the free Community Edition (such as: integrated administration tools, non-technical tool for updates and upgrades, access to Openbravo Exchange and a Service Level Agreement
Service Level Agreement
A service-level agreement is a part of a service contract where the level of service is formally defined. In practice, the term SLA is sometimes used to refer to the contracted delivery time or performance...
). Characteristic of the Openbravo ERP application is the green web interface
Interface (computer science)
In the field of computer science, an interface is a tool and concept that refers to a point of interaction between components, and is applicable at the level of both hardware and software...
through which users maintain company data in a web-browser on their PC or PDA
PDA
A PDA is most commonly a Personal digital assistant, also known as a Personal data assistant, a mobile electronic device.PDA may also refer to:In science, medicine and technology:...
. Openbravo can also create and export reports and data to several formats, such as PDF
Portable Document Format
Portable Document Format is an open standard for document exchange. This file format, created by Adobe Systems in 1993, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems....
and Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications...
.
Openbravo's Java
Java (programming language)
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
-based architecture focuses on two development models:
- model-driven development, in which developers describe the application in terms of models rather than code
- model-view-controllerModel-view-controllerModel–view–controller is a software architecture, currently considered an architectural pattern used in software engineering. The pattern isolates "domain logic" from the user interface , permitting independent development, testing and maintenance of each .Model View Controller...
, a well established design pattern in which the presentation logic and the business logic are kept isolated
These two models allow for integration with other programs and for a simple interface.Because of the application of open standards Openbravo ERP can be integrated with other open source applications like Magento webshop, Pentaho Business Intelligence, ProcessMaker BPM, Liferay Portal and SugarCRM.
Openbravo POS
Openbravo POS is a web-based Point-of-Sale (POS) application for retail and hospitality businesses. The application came into existence called TinaPOS. For legal reasons the application was renamed to LibrePOS. In 2007 LibrePOS was acquired by Openbravo and it is known by its current name. The program is completely integrated into Openbravo's ERP application. Through this integration it is possible to update stock levels, financial journals and customer data directly in the central database when a POS sales is executed in the stores. Openbravo POS can be applied using PDAs for order intake.See also
- Enterprise resource planningEnterprise resource planningEnterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...
(ERP) - List of ERP vendors
- List of ERP software packages