IDempiere

iDempiere. Community Powered Enterprise, also known as OSGi + ADempiere, is an open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software that is fully navigable on PCs, tablets and smartphones, it also has customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) functions. It is in contrast to proprietary or most other open source ERP solutions driven only by a community of supporters. The architecture of the iDempiere system allows it to easily expand its functions while maintaining a simple and flexible state of the ERP business system, iDempiere can be used freely and it supports: Multiple tenants Multiple organizations (branches, plants, etc.) Multiple languages (29 localizations; mixed access in a single installation is possible) Multiple currencies Multiple account schemas Multiple-user 1999, Jorg Janke creates Compiere a predecessor of iDempiere. Jorg had previously worked at Oracle in Germany and the USA. 2006, starts the development of ADempiere as a fork of the open source version of Compiere. 2008–2010, in the Adempiere community some users work on a modular ERP design proposal, with some OSGI implementations like Apache Felix and Equinox. 2010, Adempiere 3.6.0 LTS and Branch GlobalQSS Adempiere361 are launched. 2011, due to disagreements in the former ADempiere developer community they decided to use the new name iDempiere for the code path with the new OSGi architecture. So iDempiere can be seen as the next generation of ADempiere or as a fork of the ADempiere Branch GlobalQSS Adempiere361. The majority of the active developer community started to work on iDempiere. The big difference made on iDempiere 1.0 vs ADempiere was the platform technology upgrade to the OSGi framework that allows iDempiere to have plug-ins, so a lot of specific Code made on Adempiere have been updated as plug-ins in iDempiere., Also Jboss was replaced with Apache Tomcat improving the performance and memory footprint. Further upgrades were a new automatic build system based on Eclipse Buckminster, a major ZK upgrade (from ZK3.