Saad,
Just a side-note related to what Yannick wrote here:There are dozens of OFBiz service providers. It is a community driven open source project, so there is no central company like SAP or Compiere that is your only choice for OFBiz related services.
Because of this prices and practices will vary a great deal among the various service providers, so you have a lot of options in this area.
-David On Feb 23, 2007, at 5:19 AM, Yannick Thebault wrote:
The answer is very complex to give but here is my method to make quick evaluation for customer project costs.To evaluate if a open source ERP solution is better than a proprietary ERPsolution for a customer, I ask to the lead its budget and number of end-users.Then you can evaluate the open source ERP solution budget between 2k euros and 4k euros per end-user. This budget includes : training, implementation,development, deployment, technical assistance. The difference is due by features to implement, new features to add, availability and skill of customer project team.Then with the customer tender, I can evaluate in details the project costs.An open source ERP can take between 4 to 12 months depends to customer team availability and skills, amount of data to load from old systems, features toimplement or develop, ... Training costs start from 250 euros / person / day.Maintenance and support is a ratio calculated with number of users, number of implemented business components(manufacturing, order, finance, ...) andcustomer specific files. Hope it helps you Regards Yannick Le Vendredi 23 Février 2007 12:31, Saad Sarhani a écrit :Hi,Does anybody here know the overall cost of implementing OFBiz in a SME, and how long does the process last? and, too, what are training fees? (if there are trainigs). I'm working on a comparison between open source solutionsfor SME, and this kind of details aren't really available. Thank you in advance for your help. Saad.-- Yannick Thebault Consultant Tél : 06.88.33.64.45 Site projet : http://www.neogia.org/ Société Néréide Tél : 02.47.50.30.54 Site : http://www.nereide.biz/
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