On Feb 27, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Jacques Le Roux <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's quite an interesting proposition. I guess HotWax Systems already used > it in production? > > Jacques We have implemented this as a "product", not for a customer project and we will present it in an upcoming Magento conference. Jacopo > > Le 27/02/2015 09:17, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit : >> Hi all, >> >> in the last year, the research and development lab of HotWax Systems has >> implemented a series of components and tools for OFBiz. >> Some of them are ready-to-be-used applications and, in my opinion, would be >> a good fit for OFBiz. >> >> After discussing the topic internally, we believe that the community could >> benefit from them and at the same time help to further improve them. >> >> Accordingly, I would like to start by exploring with you the opportunity to >> include in OFBiz our integration with Magento eCommerce platform. >> >> Magento eCommerce (http://magento.com/products/overview) is a popular >> solution for merchants; it is an open source product (but the company is >> owned by eBay). >> In terms of features it competes with the OFBiz ecommerce component, but it >> is easier to setup and with a shorter go to market. >> For these reasons it is a good fit for small-medium merchants that need an >> ecommerce store with no backend capabilities and it has a very large users >> base. >> >> We realized that there could be a rather large group of merchants, already >> using Magento for online sales, that may be interested in integrating it >> with a powerful ERP system for the backend tasks (order fulfillment, >> accounting etc...). >> >> The integration component we have implemented has a nice user interface to >> import categories, products, orders from Magento eCommerce and then synch >> held/cancelled orders; there are screens to manage shipment options and >> product store settings. >> >> You can find some screenshot here: >> http://people.apache.org/~jacopoc/magento-integration-2.png >> http://people.apache.org/~jacopoc/magento-integration-3.png >> http://people.apache.org/~jacopoc/magento-integration-4.png >> http://people.apache.org/~jacopoc/magento-integration-5.png >> >> Arun Patidar led the effort and is happy to provide additional details so >> please feel free to ask any questions. >> >> In my opinion this product could be integrated as a specialpurpose >> component, but I am open to suggestions. >> >> What do you think? >> >> Jacopo >>
