I concur with adrian. Get something like the intuit products. I use home and business for my consulting. not sure what you require for CRM but ofbiz has the ability, just not as evident at first sight. as far as size, what do you expect from an Enterprise level software? :) As a guide, read the Data model books.
Henning Sprang sent the following on 12/1/2008 2:19 PM: > Hi, > I've been looking for a free software to make my accounting work for > my starting self-employment as IT consultant. > Looking back and forth, there seems to be not that much, but the > description on the OFbiz site, combined with Java as language, was > quite appealing. I've got some years of Java experience, so here I > could make customizations. > > Now that I looked at it for a while, and tried to get started (I > downloaded and started opentaps and neogia), I am quite overwhelmed. > > I only need accounting, and eventually a bit of CRM stuff (which I'd > otherwise do with SugarCRM/vTiger) - and the sheer download size of > the ofBiz products, and all the manufacturing and whatnot things I > have in the interface got me quite a bit confused. > > I wonder, do you think it is appropriate for a very small business to > use ofBiz for the mentioned tasks? > Or would you suggest, my plan B, writing something myself with > groovy/grails as easy development framework, with a low learning > curve, exactly tailored for my small needs ? > > If you believe I should do it, where are some simpler guides? > I somehow think I saw some more small getting started > tutorials/howto's or examples these days, but now I can't find them > anymore. I really don't know where to start. > > Henning > >
