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By David Gordon

ERP companies are integral to the success of electrical distributors as they control, or impact (in no particular order) order processing, inventory, pricing, supply chain issues (EDI, VMI, SPAs), delivery (and routing), accounting / finance, purchasing, credit, invoicing, collections, customer service and now they are even more involved in marketing (through CRM), data...

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...

In October this year, I'll be visiting the US and Canada for some conferences and a wedding. The first event will be xTupleCon 2014 in Norfolk, Virginia . xTuple makes the popular open source accounting and CRM suite PostBooks ®. The event kicks off with a keynote from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on the evening of October 14. On October 16, I'll be making a presentation about how...

For those of us with kids, it's back-to-school time in the U.S. Some are moving into high school for the first time, some are (gulp) off to college. What better time for us to overhaul our own educational offerings, and introduce... xTuple University!

Set to start next week with a haxTuple kick-off webinar , our open source developer contest is already igniting the xTuple community. Although those competitors in the bug-squashing derby have to wait until August 6 to start, Juliana Louback [GitHub] , a software engineer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has begun working on her entry for the Mobile Web extension portion of the competition. She's...

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Prizes include Google Glass, mobile warehouse barcode scanners, and a chance to meet Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak

xTuple invites developers worldwide to the company’s next open source developer contest, haxTuple 2014, a month-long hackathon and bug derby.

As in previous incarnations, xTuple opens its Qt/C++ Desktop client bug-shooting derby to the global...

Next month we're inviting developers worldwide to our company’s 30-day open source developer competition, haxTuple 2014. Prizes include a genuine Google Glass, mobile warehouse barcode scanner, geeky gear, and a chance to meet Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak!

As an open-source company, we've long known that our community is our secret weapon. haxTuple is an event that helps focus and...

Recently many clients and colleagues have asked why we only work with Drupal. The dilemma? Drupal seems too complicated for small brochure-style websites, and arguably you can spin up a WordPress site in a matter of hours. While true, we have at least seven (7) reasons why Drupal is a better fit for our clients. Now, I’m not anti-WordPress. Actually, I’ve seen some great sites built on it, and...

We've just announced the full agenda for this year's xTupleCon user conference, and it's a doozy. More great speakers, innovative technology, inspirational stories, and all around cool stuff than you can shake a stick at! By now you might have heard that the conference opens with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak . But did you know we're also hosting the Chief of Staff for the US Navy Mid-...

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User conference for World’s #1 Open Source ERP highlights innovation, from Woz to Glass

‘Days of Future Apps’ aptly describes the theme for xTuple’s global ERP user conference this October, as the complete xTupleCon14 agenda is announced.

In addition to hearing opening speaker Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc., and Chief Scientist of Fusion...

Kick off xTupleCon14 with Woz!

Yes, you read that correctly. xTuple is proud to announce that our opening VIP keynote speaker will be none other than the legendary Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple!

UPDATE: We're also happy to announce that xTupleCon participants will be able to enjoy a 90 minute private cocktail and hors d'oeuvres reception with Woz before the talk!!...

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Open source software leader partners with oldest speakers' forum in the U.S.

xTuple CEO Ned Lilly announced today that pass-holders to the company’s “ultimate user conference” will enjoy the legendary Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple , as opening VIP keynote speaker, thanks to a partnership with The Norfolk Forum . Scheduled for Monday, October 13, through...

Our company, erpDevelopers, signed on as an xTuple Gold Partner on March 15, 2014. It has been a whirlwind ride since then — including closing our first project just yesterday!

Since originally signing up, we’ve worked a trade show jointly with xTuple, attended the 101 "Setup, Configuration & Operation" training class (in Vegas), the Project Management & Implementation...

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xTuple anytime, anywhere

Headquartered in the innovation corridor of downtown #NorfolkVA, xTuple makes business management software to help grow your company’s supply chain, profitably. xTuple is a company just like yours; the product we create is software. xTuple’s Mobile Web app lets you run your business anywhere, anytime, and on any device. We use it ourselves...

We're delighted to announce that, in addition to a chance to hear legendary Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on the opening night of xTupleCon14, attendees will now also meet "Woz" at a private xTuple cocktail reception before the speaker event!

We're happy to hear that NetSuite is finally thinking about rewriting their application in HTML5. In other words, they're working towards a mobile-ready design. This is a good step forward for them, and it's the same insight that we had three years ago when we started in on our web product.

The benefit of HTML5 is that it allows you to write a single application for the web, and have...

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Open source community members crowd-source xTuple conference agenda to learn, collaborate and innovate

Back by popular demand, and enhancing the success of its inaugural standing room-only conference in 2013, CEO Ned Lilly invites open source ERP community members to xTuple’s week-long global user summit, xTupleCon14 .

Held at the premier downtown...

One of the great misunderstandings about the new xTuple web client is that its primary purpose in life is to provide an interface for mobile devices. This may surprise people, but that was never the primary reason for its creation. In fact, we expect more people to use it on laptop and PC environments than on mobile devices. It has been labeled the “Mobile” client entirely for marketing...

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President/CEO Ned Lilly co-founded xTuple in 2001, with the aim of bringing the worlds of open source and enterprise resource planning (ERP) together to solve the unmet needs of growing companies.

It’s no fun when your traditional business relationship with customers is disrupted by upstart technology companies. But, ironically, the same paradigm that’s ravaged...

By Ken Stier and D. Douglas Graham

Amazon has changed the world, certainly the world of selling. First in retail, where its main site now hosts more than 250 million products, and more recently through the launch of Amazon Supply, which offeres a swelling inventory of 1.4 million products for industry and business.