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An App Store for ERP Debuts
xTuple offers its online xChange store for download of free and paid add-ons to xTuple ERP and ability for open source community to share customizations
Norfolk, VA — June 2, 2009 — Apple's iPhone has been a hit in part because the company offers, through its App Store, an easy way for users to download and install small, purpose-built applications that handle specific chores, ranging from calculating tips to managing bank accounts.
The App Store, which saw more than 1 billion downloads in its first nine months of operation, helped turn the iPhone from Joe Tech's symbol of hipness into a practical tool to help Joe Average get through the day. The iPhone became the platform, and the apps became the point.
Now open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software company xTuple (formerly OpenMFG) is bringing that same approach to its own platform, opening the online doors to the xChange, an online marketplace of add-on and extensions to xTuple ERP.
The xChange, available at www.xtuple.com/xchange, provides users with a way to share and discover solutions ranging from third-party Web site connectors to "snap-in" tools that add functionality to the xTuple applications. In opening the xChange, xTuple is looking to tap into the creativity of the open marketplace and encourage users to form a community around its ERP system.
Free and Commercial Apps
xTuple's PostBooks Edition is a free integrated accounting, ERP and customer relationship management (CRM) system, built with the open source PostgreSQL database and the open source Qt framework for C++. The free solution offers functionality for sales, purchasing, product definition, inventory and distribution, and light manufacturing. The company reports that the free software has been downloaded a quarter-million times.
Some of the new apps are free on the xChange, while others come at a price. Among the latter, two new offerings have been launched by xTuple itself: a Point-of-Sale (POS) package and the xTuple Batch Manager. The POS package adds retail cash register management to any of the editions of xTuple ERP.
The Batch Manager processes resource-intensive jobs separately from the ERP application, in addition to handling all outgoing email messages and transaction documents. Previously only available as part of the commercially-licensed Standard or Manufacturing Editions of xTuple ERP, the Batch Manager package can now plug into the free, open source PostBooks Edition.
Free solutions currently available through the xChange include dozens of custom reports contributed by community members, as well as scripts to connect xTuple ERP to the osCommerce shopping cart software (www.oscommerce.com), Drupal content management system (www.drupal.org), and Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Websites (www.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/).
The App Store, which saw more than 1 billion downloads in its first nine months of operation, helped turn the iPhone from Joe Tech's symbol of hipness into a practical tool to help Joe Average get through the day. The iPhone became the platform, and the apps became the point.
Now open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software company xTuple (formerly OpenMFG) is bringing that same approach to its own platform, opening the online doors to the xChange, an online marketplace of add-on and extensions to xTuple ERP.
The xChange, available at www.xtuple.com/xchange, provides users with a way to share and discover solutions ranging from third-party Web site connectors to "snap-in" tools that add functionality to the xTuple applications. In opening the xChange, xTuple is looking to tap into the creativity of the open marketplace and encourage users to form a community around its ERP system.
Free and Commercial Apps
xTuple's PostBooks Edition is a free integrated accounting, ERP and customer relationship management (CRM) system, built with the open source PostgreSQL database and the open source Qt framework for C++. The free solution offers functionality for sales, purchasing, product definition, inventory and distribution, and light manufacturing. The company reports that the free software has been downloaded a quarter-million times.
Some of the new apps are free on the xChange, while others come at a price. Among the latter, two new offerings have been launched by xTuple itself: a Point-of-Sale (POS) package and the xTuple Batch Manager. The POS package adds retail cash register management to any of the editions of xTuple ERP.
The Batch Manager processes resource-intensive jobs separately from the ERP application, in addition to handling all outgoing email messages and transaction documents. Previously only available as part of the commercially-licensed Standard or Manufacturing Editions of xTuple ERP, the Batch Manager package can now plug into the free, open source PostBooks Edition.
Free solutions currently available through the xChange include dozens of custom reports contributed by community members, as well as scripts to connect xTuple ERP to the osCommerce shopping cart software (www.oscommerce.com), Drupal content management system (www.drupal.org), and Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Websites (www.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/).
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