Apache OFBiz
Overview
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...
(ERP) system. It provides a suite of enterprise applications that integrate and automate many of the business process
Business process
A business process or business method is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product for a particular customer or customers...
es of an enterprise.
OFBiz is an Apache Software Foundation
Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U.S., in June 1999.The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers...
top level project.
Apache OFBiz is a framework, provides a common data model
Data model
A data model in software engineering is an abstract model, that documents and organizes the business data for communication between team members and is used as a plan for developing applications, specifically how data is stored and accessed....
and a rich set of business process.
All applications are built around a common architecture using common data, logic and process components.
Beyond the framework itself, Apache OFBiz offers a huge range of functionality including:
- Accounting (Agreements, Invoicing, Vendor Management, General LedgerGeneral ledgerThe main accounting record of a business which uses double-entry bookkeeping. It will usually include accounts for such items as current assets, fixed assets, liabilities, revenue and expense items, gains and losses. Each General Ledger is divided into debits and credits sections. The left hand...
) - Asset Maintenance
- Catalogue and Product Management
- Facility and Warehouse Management
- Manufacturing
- Order Processing
- Inventory Management, automated stock replenishment etc.
- Content management systemContent management systemA content management system is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based...
(CMS) - Human resourcesHuman resourcesHuman resources is a term used to describe the individuals who make up the workforce of an organization, although it is also applied in labor economics to, for example, business sectors or even whole nations...
(HR) - People and Group Management
- Project Management
- Sales Force AutomationSales force management systemSales force management systems are information systems used in CRM marketing and management that help automate some sales and sales force management functions...
- Work Effort Management
- Electronic point of salePoint of salePoint of sale or checkout is the location where a transaction occurs...
(ePOS) - Electronic commerceElectronic commerceElectronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, eCommerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. However, the term may refer to more than just buying and selling products online...
(eCommerce) - Scrum (development)Scrum (development)Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for project management often seen in agile software development, a type of software engineering....
(Scrum software development support)
All of Apache OFBiz functionality is built on a common framework.
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