Enterprise With Open Source

Thinking of getting a one stop solution with open source for enterprises for a long time and still on that... but it hundred times better than the year 2002-2003. Enterprises specially the SME now had a great opportunity to get a complete solution with open source.. ohh what a great relief from bulk amount of module fees and license fees.

I was talking with a C.E.O of a SME and he was asking suggestion for buying a Business Solution for his sales and distribution company. But he was too tensed as all the vendors are to high and out of his reach. I asked him what services you want...

He wanted a e-commerce and POS and a order processing system and financial with billing, invoicing, shipping, tax and inventory management, its better if i can handle the distribution also...

So he wanted a ERP with e-commerce and POS. I told him its available free and those are very stable and so many big companies are using them..

Apache OFBIZ is now a buzz word in the market for such solution and also opentaps has bring some wonderful extensions on that.

And also Openbravo is also a very strong solution getting popular each day.

Then he urged, what about customer support, call center etc.. I replied surely, SugarCRM, OFBIZ, opentaps, vtiger with Asterix giving wonderful CRM solutions.

Then he wanted some office management support and collaboration. I said yes that is also available and more nicely can be managed with Alfresco...

I asked what else you need. He said ohh i forgot about reporting. Is it also possible?

Why not Pentaho and Jasper is there with great BI solutions with analytical reporting and adhoc reporting tools.

But suddenly he got silent. I asked him what is the trouble.. He replied who will integrate and deploy that for me..

I have the same question to the software companies...