Open source software is everywhere, large organizations like IBM, Sun, Oracle, even government agencies such as the Department of Defense now use open source software. Nowadays the trends are: people don’t want to  get locked into any vendor specific or spend high-cost resources on months of implementation. Even, they don’t want to get locked into any vendor specific technology and want some third-party provider to manage your proprietary data. The solution are given here. Here are  excellent resources for Open Source Enterprise Management Software, and the list contains the best out there…

1. Openbravo – Open Source Enterprise Resource Management Software (ERP) 

Openbravo is an open source online ERP solution. Since it is web-based its interface can be accessed from anywhere.
The prominent features of Openbravo are:
*A web-based interface
*Information about production, inventory, customers, order tracking, and workflow.
*Informations can be synchronized with other applications through Openbravo API.
*It can also create and export reports and data to several formats.
Platforms OpenBravo is compatible with almostall the major operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris and FreeBSD.

2. Zivios

Zivios is an open source enterprise management system with features such as a single sign on, certificate authority, user, group and computer provisioning as well as remote management of services. Zivios has an infinitely extensible API for plugin development. Currently, the Zivios core has 4 modules, time server, naming server, certificate authority and single sign on. ZIvios 0.5.1 comes with 4 plugins, Asterisk, mail, squid and samba.

3 Alfresco

Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. Alfresco was founded in 2005 by John Newton, co-founder of Documentum and John Powell, former COO of Business Objects. It prresents document management, records management, web content management, imaging and collaboration. The app makes you easily to use with an intelligent virtual file system and Google like search and folder browsing. Features best practice collaboration with preconfigured smart space templates, project structure and content and logic lifecycles. Moreover, it offers threaded discussions on folders and documents. Alfresco needn’t be installed on the client end and it’s got advanced security measure built in.

4. Pentaho Gives Open Source Business Intelligence a Boost

Pentaho Corporation is a commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI). Pentaho Open BI Suite provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform that have made it the world’s leading and most widely deployed open source BI suite. Pentaho’s products are used by leading organizations, including MySQL, Motorola, Terra Industries, DivX and more. Pentaho recently announced that Spidex Software has seen strong commercial results and customer success from its Pentaho-based Spidex BI, an integrated BI application for users of Spidex’s Mainsaver CMMS/EAM solution.

5. Moodle run a one room school house or a major University

Moodle is an Open Source Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). The idea is to take the best aspects of classroom practice and use Moodle as a VLE to transfer that into the home environment.It is written in PHP and is easy to install and use on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, SunOS, BSD, and Netware 6. It has been designed to support modern pedagogies based on social constructionist theory, and includes activity modules such as forums, chats, resources, journals, quizzes, surveys, choices, workshops, glossaries, lessons, and assignments.

6. Zenoss IT management suite.

Zenoss Core is an award-winning open source IT monitoring product that delivers the functionality to effectively manage the configuration, health and performance of networks, servers and applications through a single, integrated software package. Zenoss has won numerous awards, including InfoWorld’s BOSSIE for Best Open Source Network Monitoring Solution, Enterprise Open Source Magazine Readers’ Choice Award, and Network World’s Clear Choice Award. Recently, Zenoss Inch released Zenoss Enterprise 2.3, its enterprise virtualization management solution, which delivers native VMware monitoring across the full virtualization infrastructure lifecycle.

7. XRMS Customer relationship management.

XRMS is a web-based application for managing business entities such as employees, customers, contacts, activities with those contacts, etc. XRMS generally falls into the category of application known as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Automation (SFA), with aspects of Business Intelligence (BI), Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), & an advanced plugin architecture. PHP/ADOdb.

Used to integrate and manage sales, service, and marketing data in a single information store. XRMS has the enterprise capabilities to become a single system of record for storing activities, files, and other interaction data with your customers, employees, partners, and prospects. And, it is easily extensible to support your own processes and procedures for interacting with and supporting your customers

8. Sugar CRM Customer relationship management.

SugarCRM Recognized for Providing a Sophisticated Alternative to Proprietary Software. SugarCRM, was named the winner of CRM magazine’s 2008 Market Awards in the open source category. SugarCRM easily adapts to any business environment by offering a more flexible, cost-effective alternative than proprietary applications. SugarCRM’s open source architecture allows companies to more easily customize and integrate customer-facing business processes in order to build and maintain more profitable relationships. SugarCRM offers several deployment options, including on-demand, on-premise and appliance-based solutions to suit customers’ security, integration and configuration needs. In November 2008, SugarCRM announced it hosted SugarCon 2009, its global customer, partner and developer conference. SugarCon offers a range of visionary, business and technical sessions tailored to SugarCRM customers, partners, administrators and developers.

9. vtiger.com

vtiger.com is a free service to Open Source developers offering easy access to the best in CVS, mailing lists, bug tracking, message boards/forums, task management, site hosting, permanent file archival, full backups, and total web-based administration. It is mainly for small and medium businesses to manage Salesforce, Customer Support, Inventory Management and other requirements. vtiger CRM also provides plug-ins for MS Outlook, MS Word, and Thunderbird. In order to get the most out of vtiger.com, you’ll need to register as a site user. This will allow you to participate fully all the offering

10. OhioEdge.com  CRM+BPM Server

Located in Cleveland, Ohio, its mission  is to develop and deliver quality and cost-effective open source enterprise Java solutions. Ohioedge is a Sun Certified Java Developer, IBM Certified WebSphere Powered e-Business Component Provider, Oracle Business Partner, and Borland Technology Partner. These programs enable us to keep up to date with the java and database technologies and offer cutting edge solutions to our business partners.

Ohioedge CRM manages sales contacts, correspondence, customer service, prototyping, shipping, and other customer-facing fulfillment operations. By integrating information from these activities, Ohioedge CRM provides sales reps, service managers and other personnel all the information they need to efficiently service customers, eliminating miscommunications and redundant efforts.

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 at 3:32 pm | by Kur-nia-one |