Thanks Mike, Your message is very informative.
Can you summarise the difference in requirements for accounting in Europe vs elsewhere? VAT is obviously a big difference, but what else is there? Thanks Paul Foxworthy Mike Z wrote > > I had done a lot of work with OpenERP (about 6-8 months worth) until I > finally ditched it for OFBiz. From my standpoint: > > 1) OpenERP has *NO* decent ecommerce module... Period. If you have a need > for ecommerce, and you have 10s of thousands of products, then forget > about > OpenERP. You are forced to use a shopping cart like Magento and do > "syncing", using XMLRPC, which takes forever (about 1 product/sec), and > always seems to run out of memory or stops 1/2 way through the syncing > process. > > Suppose you have big plans and you want a shopping cart with 100,000 > products. Now imagine that it would take (at best!) a day and a half to > sync products. It is completely unusable! > > There is also "Magento Pro", which claims to sync to SAP-based businesses. > Ever heard back in the old days that no one has ever got fired for buying > IBM? Believe me, if some IT guy recommended to buy Magento Pro and expect > great performance linking to SAP, he would get fired. Look at all the big > sites, Amazon, Overstock,etc, NONE of them do use "syncing". > > 2) OFBiz comes as a complete ERP, OpenERP allows "modules" that can extend > the ERP system with features later... Supposedly. This always seems to > error out after you have some real data in the database, and you later add > a new module. It is important to thoroughly study your OpenERP > requirements FIRST, add ALL modules you ever expect to use (in > the beginning), then start using the ERP. > > 3) OpenERP is Europe-centric when it comes to Accounting. I had trouble > getting it to work and comply with US requirements. I haven't looked > lately, but at the time there was no good US-based services like " > authorized.net" for OpenERP. It may be different today. > > 4) Documentation. OpenERP has OFBiz beaten in the category. Great docs > for OpenERP. > > 5) OFBiz (java) vs OpenERP (python). I think java scales better than > python. > > The big reason I finally ditched OpenERP was the single database feature > between OFBiz and it's ecommerce module. Syncing became a total nightmare > between dissimilar databases. It was hard enough to learn and > become familiar with OpenERPs schema, now I also had to learn yet another, > complex schema for Magento, which is EAV based. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80%93value_model > > It was just too complex. At least with OFBiz, I know all the tables > relate > to each other. > > Mike > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Jonville Paul < > paul.jonville@> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I'm a student in economics at Louvain School of Management (in Belgium). >> >> I have a work to do for my Integrate Information System class which >> consist to compare Apache OfBiz and Open ERP. >> >> I would like to know if it is possible to have some information about >> your >> company. >> >> What are the advantages of your products in term of available modules, >> needed computer >> >> specifications, available aids, ergonomics, targeted public(small >> businesses or big ones), how to adapt the modules depending on the >> specific needs of the enterprise, etc. >> >> >> >> The work will be entirely confidential (if you need a paper to ensure it >> I >> can send you one) >> >> >> >> Thank you very much for your time, >> >> >> >> Wish you the best. >> >> >> >> >> >> Paul Jonville >> > ----- -- Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd http://www.cohsoft.com.au/ Bonsai ERP, the all-inclusive ERP system http://www.bonsaierp.com.au/ -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Informations-tp4534418p4540528.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
