BusinessVision <http://www.sagebusinessvision.com/> is capable of handling points 1,2 and 5 off the shelf. Points 3 & 4 are a dime a dozen or you can create a custom one in Rev. As I understand BV, it's database is accessible for custom reporting as well although they have a fair amount of customizability built-in.
I know several businesses locally that do and I have researched it for similar things to you and am just starting to use it... Jim on 4/3/06 7:18 PM, Russ McBride wrote: > > Hi, > > It's been a few years since I've used Revolution. > > We've got a messy set of systems here that keep the front end and > back end of our store running and I'm exploring ideas for > inexpensively consolidating and streamlining them to reduce > complexity and redundancy. One possibility is rebuilding everything > from the ground up in RR. I'm not sure that it can do it though. > Basically, we need to rebuild nothing less than a "junior-SAP" > system, a set of the following: > > --a point-of-sale system > --an inventory management system > --some custom apps that access remote web services > --a content control system for web site data (simpler than Hemingway, > e.g.) > --some custom bookkeeping apps > > The goal would be to reduce our 4 overlapping databases down to one > so it means that these apps would be heavily database-centric, > probably built on FrontBase, PostgreSQL, or MySQL. And I would need > to easily tie in some Objective-C code and Java code (and ideally > some Ruby code) when necessary. The web content system would have to > feed into some flat files for the WebDNA web app system we're using > until we get around to rebuilding our WebDNA/WebObjects composite > system. > > At one point Geoff Canyon made it sound like RealBasic might be > better for database-intensive applications. > > Unfortunately our environment at the University here requires custom > applications, but we don't have the $$ for an actual SAP-style > setup. Having used RR for some apps quite awhile ago my first > impression is that it might be perfect, er--the only possible > candidate--for rapidly building an inexpensive, but comprehensive set > of apps. My other choices would be RealBasic (more code, but maybe a > more desirable language), Cocoa (but this wouldn't be truly rapid--at > least not for me), Ruby on Rails (but I don't want web interfaces), > WebObjects (ditto), or Cocoa-Ruby (interesting, but limited to Mac), > or Ruby + TK (unstable GUI system). > > What do you think? Any tips, anecdotes, or suggestions appreciated. > > Thanks very much, > > > > > Russ McBride > Programmer/Analyst, PhD Cadidate > The Scholar's Workstation > University of California at Berkeley > 510-643-6853 > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- Helping people focus and use time effectively and satisfyingly as they go through their day. <http://www.OwnYourFuture-net.com> Own Your Future Consulting Services Limited, 23 Shoal Cove Road, Seabright, Nova Scotia, Canada. B3Z 3A9 Phone: 902-823-2339. Fax: 902-823-2139 _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
