By Teresa Talerico
The concept of buying local is catching on as consumers increasingly shop for products that are locally grown or produced, from organic vegetables to handmade soap to grass-fed beef. So why not technology? A number of apps, software programs and other technologies are developed right here in our own backyard.
By Jason Will
The other side of improving financial stability is from a business vantage point. If you are fortunate enough to run your own business or be the financial decision maker within an organization, then pay attention to this next piece. The tool is called PostBooks®, which is a product within xTuple’s portfolio. I’ll be focusing on the accounting component and will touch on...
By Marlon C. Magtira
As eMBM recognizes the need for affordable Enterprise Resource Planning solutions to respond to a growing local economy, the company has been recently appointed by xTuple, a global provider in open-source ERP, to distribute and implement xTuple products in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.
We are actively seeking an App Store Product Manager, someone who can help us curate and attract code to augment the xTuple community ecosystem. Is it you?
The ideal candidate will be someone who is familiar with xTuple ERP and with scripting. The job requires someone comfortable reading code (C++ and JavaScript). He or she needs to understand a...
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xTuple is proud to announce its new membership in the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED) Allied Partner program.
Account Executive for xTuple, Mr. Stacey Pandeloglou , will be on hand at...
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Just released! Representing the company’s second chapter of life from 2008 through 2012, xTuple's second "best of" or "greatest hits" album (GHV2) is a collection of the most well-regarded and highest-rated features — developed in partnership...
Analyst: Vishal Jain
Open source ERP vendor xTuple has launched an HTML5-based mobile Web app built entirely on JavaScript and HTML5, and claims to have tested it with a hundred or so private beta users. Similarly, smartTrade Technologies, a vendor of financial services products, has now launched all of its trading platforms as Web apps using HTML5. Market intelligence and data...
“The Granby Street corridor has become a magnet for technology companies, like xTuple,” Fraim said. “Other digital firms on Granby Street include Grow Interactive, Ciniva, Web Agency, ArtSmith Media and Sway Creative Labs.”
By City of Norfolk
Mayor Paul Fraim today discussed all things Norfolk during his annual State of the City address. Pilot reporters Jill Nolin and Clay Barbour were there and provided updates on Twitter, as did others. xTuple was highlighted.
xTuple enjoyed a shout-out by Norfolk, Virginia, Mayor Paul Fraim at the Annual State of the City address on Friday, February 8, 2013. The specific excerpt of the mayor's speech follows and can be viewed in the video below (at 26-28 minutes):
"One area with potential to help reposition the city’s economy is technology. With our location midway between the Washington metro area and the...
By Jason Will
The OSS approach is heavily reliant on virtual communities to deliver support via forums and blogs. I recently caught up with Marc O’Brien, Vice President of Business Development at xTuple, which specializes in Open Source ERP.
In the food industry, not just any ERP software will do.
The regulatory and operational needs of food manufacturers and distributors mean that only a sophisticated, flexible, cost-effective ERP application such as xTuple can provide a viable solution.
We'd like to highlight the features that make xTuple a "natural" fit for food and describe our plans to serve this marketplace...
If you're using any edition of xTuple to run your business, or even if you're just kicking the tires, we'd like to ask for your help. You're probably aware of Sourceforge, the open source community portal which is one of the primary ways we distribute xTuple PostBooks® and various other free software to the world. I am happy — and proud — to say that PostBooks® was nominated as a finalist for the March 2013 SourceForge "Project of the Month."
Vote for xTuple PostBooks® ERP to be the March 2013 Project of the Month on SourceForge!
Poll here: http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-vote-201303/
SourceForge.net: Free, secure and fast downloads from the largest Open Source applications and software directory.
Who thinks a flashy trucker game is better than the World's #1 Open Source ERP? Not the xTuple community, I bet...
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xTuple, fast recognized as the world’s #1 open source ERP, delivered record revenues in 2012 and continued strong overall growth in the fourth quarter, the third successive “best quarter ever.” Sales for the full year...
Recognizing xTuple ERP solutions as the “world's #1 open source ERP” means xTuple has become a significant threat to legacy business management software vendors in manufacturing and wholesale distribution.
PostBooks® was recently named a 'Featured Project' on Sourceforge . No small feat with over 320,000 projects on Sourceforge totaling 4,000,000 downloads per day. The Sourceforge...
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The adoption of REST as the developer's tool of choice for communication has been getting plenty of press over the past few years. At xTuple we're on board. We've built our Web/mobile cloud ERP solution with a REST server baked into the very way that our own client communicates with the server. It was a priority of ours to have the moving pieces of our system be able to talk with the same...
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Few can deny the success Apple has enjoyed over the last several years as we've watched people all around us move from dumb phone users straight to iPhone junkies. Sure, Google's Android is successful, but every day more and more people I know get to the Internet, their email and their Facebook accounts through i-Devices of one sort or another. Apple technology is everywhere. Next week at...