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Compiere
Open-source enterprise resource planning solution

Compiere (pronounced KOM-pyeh-reh, "to accomplish, complete, fulfill" in Italian) is an open-source ERP and CRM business solution for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) in distribution, retail, service, and manufacturing. Compiere is distributed by Consona Corporation and through a Partner Network, who are a collection of trained and authorized business partners.

Compiere was founded in 1999 by Jorg Janke and was among the top 10 projects in SourceForge from 2002 for 4 years, reaching one million downloads and 100 partners in 2006.

In 2006, Compiere, Inc. raised venture capital from New Enterprise Associates with the goal of transforming the successful open-source ERP project into a growing and sustainable commercial open-source business. In 2007, the company added new executives, revamped engineering and support processes, and expanded its sales and services channels. The Compiere product line expanded to include Professional, Enterprise, and Cloud Editions while the company continued to maintain the open-source foundation as Community Edition.

Like many commercial ventures built around open-source projects, there was a degree of contention between company management (who sought to monetize the investments in R&D, Services and Support) and voices from the community (who desired that Compiere source code and business processes remained free and open as Adempiere at that moment and iDempiere some years later). On June 16, 2010, Consona acquired Compiere, Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed .

The application and source code are provided based on the GNU General Public License version 2; this comprises the Community Edition. Also available for a fee is a Professional Edition with more features, a commercial license, documentation and support contracts.

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Functionality

Compiere encompasses ERP functionality, but in order to avoid the duplication of information and fulfill the need for synchronization, it was organized in a different way. Compiere modules are: Quote to Cash, Requisition-to-Pay, Customer relationship management, Partner Relations Management, Supply Chain Management, Performance Analysis, Warehouse, Double-entry bookkeeping, Work-flow-Management and Web Store. A manufacturing module is being developed within an independent project CMPCS (see external links section).

Architecture

Compiere is a Model Driven Architecture development, deployment and maintenance framework designed with the intention of following changes as business evolves. At any time, customers can change the information structure, adjusting to new information needs. Compiere provides multiple views of business information based on the detail of the actual transactions. This structure allows flexibility and integration of supplemental external information. And since information is presented as views (using Compiere's MVC architecture), they can be changed to meet the needs of the business. Compiere is entirely based on the concept of Active Data Dictionary (ADD). Compiere Data Dictionary contains definitions of a data entity (type, validation, etc.), how it is displayed (label on screens and reports, help, display sequence and position relative to other fields), and the display rules. It also contains security and access rules.

Compiere has been developed with Java EE.8

Database independence

Compiere has been criticized for not being a pure open-source product because of its dependence on Oracle database (including the free Oracle XE); this is changing now, since version 2.5.2 Compiere is database independent to some extent. The project has released a Database Kit for porting Compiere to multiple databases. PostgreSQL, MySQL and Sybase ports are in Beta status. Compiere can also be run under the Firebird database using the Fyracle extensions, without porting.

Taking advantage of the Database Kit to create a port for the Apache Derby database the ER/Box project provides an integrated all-Java, all open source Compiere distribution. In addition to the Apache Derby database port ER/Box is also capable of running on PostgreSQL.

Compiere also works with the open-source alternative to Oracle database, EnterpriseDB. User documentation is still offered on a fee-based accessibility.

Releases

Compiere ERP + CRM Released Versions
VersionRelease DateDescription
1.0.0 Beta1999Preview version
2.0.0 Beta2000Initial version of Compiere ERP + CRM
2.3.1 Beta2001-10-10Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution for Linux and Windows910
2.4.0 Beta2001-11-12Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution for Linux and Windows1112
2.4.22002-03-05Major release, for Linux and Windows1314
2.4.2b2002-03-14Minor release, for Linux and Windows1516
2.4.2d2002-06-17Minor release, for Linux and Windows1718
2.4.3b2002-11-18Maintenance release, non-specific OS19
2.4.3c2002-12-12Maintenance release, non-specific OS20
R2.4.42003-02-24Maintenance, non-specific platform release21
R2.4.4a2003-03-21Maintenance, non-specific platform release22
R2.4.4b2003-04-30Maintenance, non-specific platform release23
R2.4.4c2003-05-15Maintenance, non-specific platform release24
R2.5.0d2003-10-10Maintenance, non-specific platform release25
R2.5.0d2003-12-03Maintenance, non-specific platform release26
R2.5.0e2004-01-31Maintenance release for non-specific OS, Platform Specific releases were discontinued from now27
R2.5.12004-02-18Major release28
R2.5.1a2004-05-03Maintenance release29
R2.5.1b2004-05-09Maintenance release30
R2.5.1e2004-08-28Maintenance release31
R2.5.1f2004-09-10Maintenance release32
R2.5.1g2004-11-09Maintenance release33
R2.5.22005-02-14Major release34
R2.5.2a2005-02-27Maintenance release35
R2.5.2b2005-03-19Maintenance release36
R2.5.2c2005-05-09Maintenance release37
R2.5.2d2005-06-02Maintenance release38
R2.5.3a2005-10-29Maintenance release39
R2.5.3b2006-02-25Maintenance release40
R2.6.0a2006-11-04Maintenance release41
R2.6.0c2007-02-11Maintenance release42
R2.6.12007-05-14Major release43
R3.0.02007-12-04Major release44
R3.1.02008-08-06Major release45
R3.2.02010-01-19Major release for Community46
R3.3.02010-06-01Major release47

See also

Spin-offs

  • Adempiere: Disagreement between a component of the Compiere user community and Compiere, Inc. resulted in the creation of this spin-off Open-Source project. The primary point of dispute was a belief by members of the user community that Compiere, Inc. had ignored the contributions and concerns of community members. Their claim48 was that the continuing direction of the product was driven mainly by Compiere, Inc.'s venture capital partners and not the user community at-large.
  • metasfresh - originally based on ADempiere, developed in Germany.
  • iDempiere also known as OSGI + ADempiere. It modularized the code through the OSGi framework so it allows a plugin architecture. Today it is the ERP project driven by the most widespread, active and open community (not backed by a single company).
  • Openbravo ERP
  • Free and open-source software portal

References

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  2. Sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ ↩

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