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OFBiz has an exhibit booth and BoF session at the upcoming OSCON show in Portland, OR on 26-28 July 2006. For details see the mailing list announcement here.
OFBiz is in the Apache Incubator. See the status here.
Free Training Videos are now available that offer an introduction to the OFBiz Framework, based on the example component. They can be downloaded here.
The Open For Business Project is an open source enterprise automation software project licensed under the MIT Open Source License. By open source enterprise automation we mean: Open Source ERP, Open Source CRM, Open Source E-Business / E-Commerce, Open Source SCM, Open Source MRP, Open Source CMMS/EAM, and so on.
For answers to your questions you might find the following documents useful: General Overview, Is OFBiz for Me?, Feature List, and Features Coming Soon
For more technical information, see the Documentation & Books page.
OFBiz offers a great deal of functionality, including:
It's hard to say who and how many organizations are using OFBiz because you don't have to tell us when you use it, but there are lots of public sites and we've listed some of them for you here.
Products based on OFBiz: Codesquare Helix Mvelopes (FREE TRIAL!) (Commercial-Service) Atlassian JIRA (Commercial) OpEntAps Open Source ERP + CRM (GPL) Neogia (GPL) SourceTap CRM (GPL/Commercial) XtraMind Mietta 2
A selection of public sites (mostly, but not all, ecommerce) using OFBiz: ***Action Envelope ***American Heart Association: Grocery List Builder **CellularOne (flash front-end) **Chocolate Secrets ***City Deals **Compliance Online Store **DKNY ***Gracious Style ***Juniper Music + Soundesign **Messer Group (German, French) ***Old Glory ***Parago **Partner Homes ***Peacock Alley ***Salton ***Shirt Painter (German) ***Silver Wings Plus Club ***Steiner Sports **totes >> ISOTONER ***Ulta ***Xinit Systems **World Franchise Council
For a more complete list of sites see the OFBiz Marketing page.
OFBiz has an exhibit booth and BoF session at the upcoming OSCON show in Portland, OR on 26-28 July 2006. For details see the mailing list announcement here.
OFBiz is in the Apache Incubator. See the status here: here.
Free Training Videos are now available that offer an introduction to the OFBiz Framework, based on the example component. They can be downloaded here.
The 2005 OFBiz Users Conference turned out Great! The video recordings are available here.
The 2005 Open For Business Users Conference was held in St. Louis, MO, USA on the 21st and 22nd of July, 2005. Special thanks to Contegix for hosting the conference this year. Undersun Consulting teamed up with Contegix to offer 2 days of training prior to the conference (on July 19-20). For details and registration information please see the official announcement on the OFBiz Users mailing list, and the preview/update with more information about what you'll see there.
Also see the latest update on the 2005 OFBiz Users Conference with detailed session information and everything you need to know to attend.
New Case Study from Integral Business Solutions about their projects based on OFBiz, especially recent work they have done for the US Air Force. Download the complete document here.
OFBiz Basic Production Setup document Now Available: OFBiz Production Setup Guide. This is a free download meant to help you get going with OFBiz. It is sponsored by Undersun Consulting and Integral Business Solutions.
New Success Story Article about OFBiz on java.net: Read it here.
The 2004 Open For Business Users Conference was held in Minneapolis, MN, USA on the 27th and 28th of May, 2004. It was hosted by Integral Business Solutions and held in a contributed room on the new Best Buy campus. Just like the 2003 conference hosted by Automation Groups this conference turned out great, and was well attended. We did a recording of the conference again this year, but this time it is DVD quality, and requires 2 DVDs even though it is compressed with DivX. Includes about 14 hours of high quality discussion and presentation of new and stable features in OFBiz. For more information, see the Services page.
2006-06-23 "ERP Enters Open-Source Renaissance" on CRN
2006-06-10 "Why Enterprises are Adopting Open Source Apps" on NewsForge
2006-03-13 "ERP: Share and Share Alike" on eWeek Channel Insider
2005-11-18 "The Case for Open-Source ERP" on eWeek Channel Insider
2005-09-06 "Open Source Offers ERP Alternative" on eWeek Channel Insider
2005-09/10 "Gaining Acceptance: Real-World Experiences with Open Source Business Applications (Vol 1, Num 2, Page 40)" on Enterprise Open Source Journal
2005-08-08 "Open Source CRM" on InfoWorld
2005-06-16 "SMBs no longer shut out of ERP" on SearchEnterpriseLinux.com
2005-01-26 "ObjectWeb announces Winners of Best Use Cases Award" on NewsForge
2004-09-11 "Open For Business" on CIO Australia
2004-09-07 "TEC Talks to the Open For Business Project - Free and Open Source Software Business Models Part One: OFBiz" on Technology Evaluation Centers
2004-06-01 "java.net Success Story: Open For Business" on java.net
2004-03-10 "The Open Source Alternative for Direct Commerce (presentation)" on eCSForum
2003-06-01 "A New Business Model for Web Services" on Connect Magazine
2003-03-01 "They Did It Their Way" on Internet Retailer
2003-01-27 "ReturnBuy.com’s open source platform saves big off the bat" on Internet Retailer
I am amazed at what OFBiz can do now and what its promise for the future is.
We use OFBiz to tie our projects together with sophisticated task management designed for the amateur homebuilder (built on the WorkEffort module). In fact, our entire organization, from top to bottom, is run on OFBiz.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
Stephen Loosli, President, Partner Homes
Open Source Projects Used: FreeMarker BeanShell Tomcat Jetty JOTM XAPool Javolution JPublish DataVision JasperReports WEKA Apache XML: Xerces Xalan Axis FOP Batik Apache Jakarta: Ant BSF Commons Log4J Lucene ORO POI OpenJMS PostgreSQL MySQL MaxDB by MySQL Hypersonic SQL Derby
Related Standards: W3C: XML SOAP HTML Sun: Java J2EE RuleML WfMC: XPDL Other Standards BPML ECCMA: UNSPSC ebXML FASB OMG: Workflow GL & Party Product qbXML OAGIS UBL