IT end-user spending in India is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.8 per cent from 2007 through 2012. This prediction, supplemented by a robust gross domestic product (GDP) averaging 8 per cent growth from 2007 to 2012 means, the Indian market continues to represent a significant growth opportunity for IT vendors. “Indian businesses continue to invest in IT in order to drive operational excellence and innovation. Moreover, the research notes that India’s domestic IT services market is the fastest-growing in Asia-Pacific.

Open ERP also experiencing this trend in India as more and more organizations and top learning institutes like IIM- A & CEPT University showing their interest in Open ERP. Recently we have received very good response at ACMA IT show held in India. Overall outlook for Open ERP in India looks bright.”

Article Source:

OpenERP’s Official Blog

Business Analyst has to study the business requirement and map it one-to-one to the existing features of OpenERP. If functionality is not available, python programming language can be used for developing the required feature. Thus this way, vendor doesn’t develop ERP system from scratch but tweaks the existing functionalities or make use of them for speedy implementation. It not only saves time, effort, cost but also and speeds up the ERP implementation.

Currently, OpenERP has over 700 modules that cater to various need of an organization. Open ERP is being used everywhere, from small and medium sized companies to large business houses.

The expert of ERP software claims that companies providing ERP will continue to merge in future. The major player of ERP’s will look at consolidation and merger of portfolio to develop horizontal (Services in all possible domains) and vertical solutions (Industry depth) . Now ERP softwares have the capability to provide e-commerce and CRM services.

ERP provides competitive edge to get ahead of your competitor’s. Future ERP software will be integrated with latest marketing strategies and business plan.

Software as a service (SaaS), Application on Demand and Open Source Application will rule ERP future.

For more details on OpenERP, visit:
OpenERP’s Official Website

What is Content Management System?

As the name itself suggests that such system hold some sort of contents. Now, you might like to know which contents? Contents can be in any form (audio, video, text, pdf, doc, xls, images etc.). Please note that we are talking about the digital contents that floats around the web. CMS frameworks provides an initial set of tools to manage the contents online. Customization can be done to suit to your business/personal requirements.

What are different options available in CMS?

You can either go for proprietary solution or open source. Proprietary vendors hold the software right with them and changes and customization can only be done by them. Due to this very nature proprietary solutions are expensive and only certain set of elite club can use afford it.
On the other hand Open Soure Solutions are distributed under the General Public License (GPL). In simple terms, it means any developer can download the source code published on open source software vendor site and make changes that suits the requirement. However, if you specifically want the original vendor’s support then they charge you a nominal fee for support, migration and patch fixes. Third party vendors can also use open source code to customize the publicly distributed solution based on their industry expertise and cater to the need of any business seeking solution.

CMS like other softwares is avaliable in two flavors. 1) SaaS (Cloud) 2) On-Premise

Now this concept is also extented into Proprietary and Open Source Solutions.

Let’s take a look at examples of each category.

A) Proprietary Softwares:

a) SaaS (Microsoft office 365, Share point server, Windows Live)

b) On-Premise (IBM enterprise content management, Share point server (MOSS), Open text ECM suite, Oracle ECM suite)

B) Open Source Softwares:

a) SaaS (If hosted on infrastructure service provider/cloud provider, e.g. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, IBM SmartEnterprise cloud etc) : Drupal, Joomla, WordPress

b) On-Premise (If vendor takes care of infrastructure): Drupal, Joomla, WordPress

To be continued……

This comparison by Nayvug Infosolutions shall help you in deciding which CRM solutions should you gor for managing healthy relationship with your customers.