The Small & Medium Business segment is the target for many leading enterprise solution vendors. However the pricing challenge in front of the customer leaves him or her in two choices;
1. Continue to use the existing solution or a suite of complex legacy applications
2. Embrace the change, select the best ERP solution, off course price is always the major decision factor
In the opensource market, http://openbravo.com , https://www.odoo.com/ and https://www.compiere.com/ appear to be in the limelight these days. Each of these solutions have key differentiators like
- openbravo: A ready solution for the retail industry. However, a cloud based horizontal ERP solution for the industries.
- odoo.com: Erstwhile OpenERP solution that changed its name to odoo.com. A phenomenal make over solution that offers applications that can be installed on the fly --similar to the cell phone applications. Off course these are packaged differently for pricing
- compiere: A more robust platform, suitable for manufacturing - offers more mature solution compared to the other 2 vendors
Almost all the 3 solutions offer analytics as an inbuilt or add-on feature. Apart from the above, the SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft continue to serve the SME segment and have their own solutions, but expensive than the opensource solutions.
The next one year should see consolidation of few solutions in this space. let me know if you have noticed any other significant developments.
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