If you are new to ERP — whether you're exploring options for new business management software or working as a project lead, or you're a fairly new xTuple user — I can't recommend enough the upcoming Project Management and Implementation Methodology (PMIM) class. This is the easiest, most convenient way to learn the essential strategies and methods for successfully managing the implementation...
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Let's be honest. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is hard.
There are lots of business problems to solve, and the whole point of an ERP system is unification and integration. It’s easy to dismiss ERP as a legacy holdover of the 80s and 90s, but that would be a mistake. There are many ERP vendors in the world, including xTuple, and we are all trying to solve some of...
It seems like a different era, but I vividly remember the excitement my wife and I felt when thinking about names for our two girls. We decided to keep it a mystery, so we had lists of both boy and girl names. Lots of discussion ensued — as anyone who's been in that happy situation can certainly confirm.
We're going through something similar here at xTuple. We already know quite a bit...
So a handful of us got together a week or so ago to fix some bugs. No big deal, right? Actually it was.
Five xTuple partners and I met at erpDevelopers' worldwide headquarters in Chicago — many thanks to Jeff and Rob for their warm hospitality. We sat around a conference table for three (3) days and nights , collaborating and hacking. A few had done this before; others were fairly new...
Historically, manufacturers have avoided the adoption of Web technology, especially business-to-business (B2B) eCommerce, into their business plan. Manufacturing is known for its complexities and unique intricacies in planning, workflow, distribution and communications. Until recently, cost effective technology was not available to help manufacturers grow online.
However, times are...
This just in: The infamous Chicago syndicate calling themselves "erpDevelopers" has sent us this "threatening" note regarding Gil Moskowitz, xTuple's director of software development , as follows:
"Once Gil lands in Chicago…he’s ours. The Ransom Demand will be horrific!!!!! Just a bunch of Chicago gangsters ‘doing their thing’!!!!!"
And this image was included in...
Version 4.9.2 || October 2015
xTuple ERP 4.9.2 is now available for download from xTuple's GitHub repository or the xTuple PostBooks® project page on SourceForge . This release includes a few bug fixes and minor enhancements to credit card processing. The commercial editions and packages can be downloaded by commercial customers from xTuple's Community Website . See more information...
Today xTuple announces the release of the xTuple Admin Utility (xTAU), a toolkit for administering xTuple databases, including Web-enabled database servers. A web-enabled xTuple database allows users to access the database via the xTuple web client, and also includes the REST API, which is necessary to integrate with xTupleCommerce.
xTAU allows a database administrator to provision a...
We recently announced the 4.9.0 release candidate of xTuple ERP and the final release should be ready soon. You probably did not know that 4.9.0 is the first version of xTuple ERP that requires plv8 [ see below ] for all databases and clients.
There are a few things you must do to get ready for this change.
We've documented the steps to install plv8 on our GitHub wiki . In...
The features I'm most excited about in the upcoming 4.9.0 release are the updates we've made to the xTuple ERP user interface. (If you want to see those changes now, check out the Release Candidate .) Existing users shouldn't worry: if you like the application the way it is, you can keep it that way. But my guess is most of you will appreciate the modernized style. xTuple's new look begins...
It's 3AM... do you know what your server is doing?
You probably don't know. If you do know, you need to do something other than worry about your server.
In most cases, it's probably not doing anything more than when you left it at the end of the day. But, during the day, you have some external users connecting, querying your PostBooks or xTuple databases — All seemingly...
PostBooks ® has been successful on Debian and Ubuntu for a while now and for all those who asked, it is finally coming to Fedora.
The review request has just been submitted and the spec files have also been submitted to xTuple as pull requests so future upstream releases can be used with rpmbuild to create packages.
Can you help?
A few small things outstanding:...
The release of xTuple ERP 4.8.0 brings with it an exciting feature that should open up new possibilities for those of you writing your own custom scripts. As some of you may know, Qt handles the firing of events and the reaction to those events using the concept of Signals (events), and Slots (event receivers) . This allows us to do things such as refresh the list of open sales orders from...
As much of the world slowly returns to the post-holidays work schedule, you might be surprised at how much has been happening at xTuple in recent weeks.
We've just released xTuple 4.8, which is arguably the biggest release since 4.0 for us. There are major new enhancements in the Desktop, Mobile Web, and xTupleCommerce customer-facing website...
We've got a whole new Quality...
Juliana Louback who applied to Debian during the second round of the GNOME Outreach Program for Women (OPW) in 2013, was selected for one of Debian's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2014 slots working on the Debian WebRTC portal . The portal is built using JSCommunicator , a generic HTML5 softphone designed to be integrated in other web sites, portal frameworks and CMS systems.
Juliana...
The xTuple Server is a powerful toolkit for installation and administration of Web-enabled xTuple ERP instances. This week, the xTuple Server evolved into a fully public open source project. All the information you need to run xTuple Server is now located in a public GitHub repository at https://github.com/xtuple/xtuple-server/wiki .
We used to have a private repo called xtuple-server-...
Early this month, a new Internet-wide security vulnerability known as POODLE surfaced. This vulnerability affects the SSLv3 protocol. Although SSLv3 is rarely used in communications between the most up-to-date applications, it presents a security concern for people whose systems are not updated to the latest versions.
More from Wikipedia on POODLE and Authorize.net POODLE FAQs ....
The Fixed Asset Maintenance extension package has been updated to resolve some outstanding issues and make several improvements based on customer feedback. The new version is available on the xChange or if you have purchased this package earlier, it will be available for download in the Commercial Software section of xTuple.org.
Several issues have come up with recent releases of the...
UPDATE!! Can anybody catch Keith ??
I'm posting with news on haxTuple 2014, our hackathon/bug derby that covers community-contributed fixes to both the xTuple Desktop client everyone knows, and the new Mobile Web client.
That lovely orange leaderboard on the left side of the xTuple.org website tells the story. Sprinkled in among the valiant efforts of our own xTuple staff,...
Just 10 days into haxTuple now, and the competition is gaining momentum. We've posted a haxTuple leaderboard , separately tracking bug fixes and extensions to xTuple.
In the spirit of the competition, of course, the leaderboard *itself* is a haxTuple project, from the talented Linda Nichols . Keep following along to see who's going to come out on top! xTuple employees, of course, are...