The other day I was talking with with someone on the phone who was interested in becoming an xTuple partner (As Director of Business Development, I talk to both current and potential partners every day). In this particular conversation, as with nearly every conversation I have with potential partners, the question was posed, “so - what's the theory?” He meant, of course, what's the catch? How...
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The FRE is the very flexible financial reporting tool that enables you to create core financial reports like Income Statements and Balances sheets as well as custom reports including Working Capital reports and Profit Center P/L reports.
Like everything in xTuple the FRE has continued to evolve with large and small improvements over time. But, the FRE video had not kept up, that is...
An essential xTuple doctrine is our commitment to “eating our own dog food,” using xTuple ERP within our own company to do our jobs better, and to ensure we understand the experience from a customer's point of view. It can be eye-opening, at times. In this way, we've come up with our own "wish list" of features we'd like to see in the software. Of course, nothing speeds up that process like...
Here's an interview I did with eWeek's Mike Vizard . We cover a lot of ground, talking about open source applications in general, how the xTuple community works, what's going on in the marketplace, etc. You can download the MP3 here , or click the control below to listen straight away.
Recently, I've had the opportunity to install a solid state storage device for a customer. (Think of your USB thumb drive, or the card you shove into your digital camera, only this thing plugs into your server's 4x PCI slot.)
At first glance, the thing is fast, really really really fast. How fast? How about +500MB/s write speeds?
That's turning it way past 11, folks...
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By Michael Vizard
In this eWEEK podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, xTuple CEO Ned Lilly explains how the current economic climate is helping to drive the open-source phenomenon into the enterprise application arena.
It seems like it's been relatively quiet from xTuple development in the last few months as the last two releases at first glance appear to be mostly bug fixes. However we have quietly been taking big architectural strides in those releases that will manifest themselves in the remainder of 2009:
First, we've partnered with BitRock to completely overhaul the xTuple installer program so...
We're happy to announce that the long-awaited all-in-one installers for xTuple ERP: PostBooks Edition, developed in partnership with our friends at Bitrock , are now available for download from Sourceforge .
There are installers for Windows, Mac OS X (Intel and PPC), and for the first time, an integrated installer for Linux as well. (Yes, we know you really want to build from source,...
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xTuple ERP: PostBooks® Edition now even easier to install for non-technical users
xTuple, the leader in open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, today announced a partnership with BitRock to enhance the speed and ease of installation of xTuple ERP. With BitRock’s powerful multi-platform installer, even non-technical users can install the free...
By The VAR Guy
Kerner's attendence for xTuple is particularly interesting. xTuple specializes in open source ERP for Mac, Linux and Windows systems. During a quick chat at the show, Kerner mentioned that xTuple's typical customer deployments involve 15 to 100 seats. And most of xTuple's initial partners are small VARs that apparently have five or fewer employees.
A knugget is a knowledge nugget. A small piece of useful information designed to help somebody out. We see them every day on our website. When somebody takes the time to answer a newbie's question in the forum, that's a knugget. Or when a power user posts an alternate workaround to a bug that already has a perfectly good workaround, that's a knugget. Or when a partner discovers a new method...
Everyone else seems to have an opinion on this one, so I guess I'll weigh in.
We've had a handful of interesting intersections with Sun in recent years, including getting the xTuple client working on OpenSolaris, and some very interesting conversations about adding UBL support to OpenOffice so you could save/load business documents (invoices, POs, ASNs, etc.) in either xTuple ERP or...
By Matt Asay
...given how dependent Apple's earnings are on a tightly integrated mass of proprietary hardware and software, it's perhaps cheeky in the extreme to suggest that open-source software can help, though perhaps not entirely unexpected considering the Mac's popularity with open-source advocates.
Yet this is precisely what Ned Lilly suggests in MacNewsWorld , and I...
By One Million Blog
Cost-cutting is still at the top of many an executive’s mind as the recession continues. Today’s Deal Radar company, xTuple, uses open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) to help enterprises streamline their operations at a lower cost without a vendor lock-in. Its main products, xTuple ERP: PostBooks® and Standard and Manufacturing Editions, include...
The video collection continues to grow covering a wide array of topics. The latest addition shows, in a single video, the execution of a comprehensive business process flow from end-to-end. It covers inventory management, purchasing, manufacturing, sales, accounts receivable and accounts payable in a single integrated flow. It is a great way to get acquainted with the application or learn...
By Tom Kaneshige
Business software has traditionally been Apple's forbidden fruit. Few, if any, of the popular ERP packages ran on Macs or required emulators to do so. But cloud computing and open source software have made platforms somewhat meaningless—and now ERP is within Apple's reach. "Things are becoming more platform agnostic," says Alex Morken, IT manager of Chris King...
On March 17 we launched a major update to both xTuple.com and xTuple.org. We'd been working on the new sites for a few months, and thought we'd give them the extra benefit of a St. Patrick's Day launch for good luck. (And yes, we did push back the original date of Friday the 13th — who says software people are all cold-eyed rationalists?)
One of the things I like most about the Translation Portal is how it demonstrates that open source is not just for programmers. Anyone with an Internet connection and a little extra time can sign up and get involved. It's that easy. And plenty of people have been doing just that. As of right now, the portal is currently hosting 16 translation projects. Not bad for a tool we released late last...
Professor Atherton has been hard at work again, this time to produce a training video for the xTuple online Translation and Localization tools . If you've been thinking about getting involved with the translation of xTuple into any of the sixteen languages currently under development, this demonstration video is just what you need. Jump in, take a look, and give us your feedback! Then head...
Everyday day the "noise" around Software as a Service ( SaaS ) seems to ring in my ears. The pundits just cannot stop talking about it, and there is certainly no shortage of companies out there with vested interests touting the great benefits of SaaS on their Blogs and Twitter accounts. My opinion on the matter is that SaaS is a fine business model, one of many that works for some companies,...