What is Apache OFBiz?
The Apache Open For Business Project is an open source enterprise automation software project licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0. 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.
Apache OFBiz is a foundation and starting point for enterprise solutions, be they for one organization or one million. OFBiz can certainly be used OOTB (out of the box), but if you're looking for something that works really well for that there are many open source projects that do a great job there. OFBiz is great for creating specialized applications for use OOTB by other organizations. OFBiz is also great for organizations that need more than what an OOTB application can offer in order to grow their operations, but find the deployment and maintenance costs of traditional enterprise systems that can handle such things to be unreasonable or unjustifiable.
Being open source under the Apache 2.0 license and driven by a community Apache OFBiz offers both flexibility by design and by access to code, and a solution where you're not alone but rather can work with many others to get things done.
Apache OFBiz offers a great deal of functionality, including:
- Advanced e-commerce
- Catalog management
- Promotion & pricing management
- Order management (sales & purchase)
- Customer management (part of general party management)
- Warehouse management
- Fulfillment (auto stock moves, batched pick, pack & ship)
- Accounting (invoice, payment & billing accounts, fixed assets)
- Manufacturing management
- General work effort management (events, tasks, projects, requests, etc)
- Content management (for product content, web sites, general content, blogging, forums, etc)
- A maturing Point Of Sales (POS) module using XUI as rich client interface
- And much more all in an open source package!
TRAININGS
OFBiz Framework Development (2-Day Training, Monday and Tuesday)
Target audience includes: developers, architects, test engineers
Presented by: Jacopo Cappellato, Ashish Vijaywargya, David E. Jones
OFBiz Functionality Overview (Full-Day Training, Monday)
Target audience includes: analysts, application designers, higher level developers, and others interested in the base functionality of OFBiz Presented by: David E. Jones and John Maw
WEDNESDAY - NOVEMBER 5
10:30 Panel: The Business of Open Source - Power, Prestige, and Propulsion
11:30 I selected OFBiz for my company, how do I start? Presented by: Hans Bakker
14:00 Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Using a Holistic Analysis and Design Approach to Avoid Hanging Your Open Source Based Application Project Presented by: David E. Jones
15:00 Experiences with Real World OFBiz Projects Presented by: Olivier Heintz
16:30 Building a Service Business on an Open Source Foundation Presented by: Mike Bates
17:30 ERP trends, OFBiz position and India Outsourcing Presented by: Amit Shinde
20:30 Birds-of-a-Feather Session: Who's Who in OFBiz (Past, Present... and Future?) Meet the people you see on the mailing lists, and introduce yourself.
21:30 Birds-of-a-Feather Session: Panel Discussion: OFBiz Around The World Panel includes: Hans Bakker, Olivier Heintz, Anil Patel, Amit Shinde, Jacopo Cappellato, Ean Schuessler, Brett Palmer, and others
THURSDAY - NOVEMBER 6
09:00 Intuitive interfaces for complex e-commerce (Web 2.0 UIs for dynamic products with complex sub-assemblies) Presented by: Ean Schuessler
10:00 Panel Discussion: Framework Release Post-Mortem, Future Release Direction Presented by: All Attending Committers, plus others invited -- Discussion of main things worked on for the Framework GA release, how it went, and plans for future framework releases as well as upcoming application releases.
14:00 Automating your OFBiz Application Testing using Selenium Presented by: Brett Palmer
15:00 OFBiz Framework Tools for Integrated Business Intelligence Presented by: Jacopo Cappellato
16:30 Accelerating performance with Views and Dynamic Views Presented by: Adam Heath
17:30 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love OFBiz Presented by: Martin Anderson and Ed Samour
21:30 Birds-of-a-Feather Session: Brainfood Gun Show: Webslinger + OFBiz Presented by: Ean Schuessler and Adam Heath --Demonstration of Brainfood Webslinger and creating great looking WYSIWYG user interfaces with it. We've been doing terrible things to OFBiz at Brainfood. Watch in disgust as we demonstrate an unholy marriage of technologies best left separated. Thrill to dark projects ranging from the expansion of Fortune 500 hegemony to the viral dissemination of mind-bending comedy propaganda. Technological scintillation probable. Amusement guaranteed. Mixed drinks consumed, perhaps provided, depending on our ability to evade the notice of conference and hotel staff.
