The Thomas Krenn AG (Freyung, Germany), known for high-quality server solutions, has provided us with an entry level server to  test the performance of  it when operating the open source ERP system ADempiere . The goal of the tests was to determine whether an Intel Atom-based server solution provides sufficient power to operate ADempiere for small businesses.

The server has an Intel Atom 330 CPU with 1 gigabyte of RAM, a 320GB hard drive and comes pre-installed with Debian GNU / Linux 5.04. The system is extremely energy efficient and consumes only between 23 (idle) to 24 (load) Watt at a noise level below 30dBA (for more details the product page of Thomas Krenn).

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During a guest lecture at the university of applied sciences Deggendorf, Catura presented the open source BI solution Pentaho. Trifon Trifonov, CTO of Catura, demonstrated to Professor Herde and the master students the complete BI process from ETL over MDX Cube Design to end-user-friendly report and dashboard generation, based on a scenario showing the interaction of Pentaho BI with open Source ERP ADempiere. Students & Professor were impressed by the possibilities Open Source Tools offer in a business environment.

After the lecture, the participants discussed various aspects of the topic “Open Source in the field of business applications”. Following the lecture, Mr. Trifonov offered introductionary training in Pentaho to employees of the TechnologieCampus Freyung.

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The Catura AG is now also present on Facebook. Currently the site is very basic, but we will expand the content in the coming months continuously. On Facebook, we will inform about current events and developments of  Catura, ADempiere and open source business applications.

We look forward to your visit

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At 14th June Adempiere PMC Head Carlos Ruiz released the new version 3.6 ADempiere “Laura”. Since the last official “named” release nearly 18 months have passed. In total, around 1000 commits imporved the code and enhanced the functionality. A detailed list of the individual contributions can be found here.

The Top 10 – contributors with code changes from the community were:

1. Carlos Ruiz, GlobalQSS,  ADempiere PMC Head – 303 commits
2. Trifon Trifonov, Catura AG, ABC - 192 commits
3. Low Heng Sin, Idalica (M) Sdn Bhd – 118 commits
4. Teo Sarca, Freelancer – 75 commits
5. Victor Perez, e-Evolution, ABC – 71 commits
6. Paul Bowden, Adaxa Ltd. – 42 commits
7. Felix Möller, Catura AG, Student – 23 commits
8. Tony Snook,  – 20 commits
9. Daniel Tamm, Notima – 14 commits
10. Cristina Ghita,  Arhipac & Michael Judd, Akuna Ltd, ABC – 11 commits

ADempiere 3.6  is a long-term support version that will be supported for at least a year. As it is tradition in the ADempiere community to name the current release after a recently-born girl from the community,  the current release was named after Laura, the daughter of Tobias Schöneberg (metas GmbH). Adempiere 3.6 “Laura” is now available for download here. The current version was mainly buildt by PMC Head Carlos Ruiz, with help of Tony Snook. Thanks can be left here.

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Data import is in the context of ERP projects a common task. You have to handle files in all kinds of formats.

Until now, the import loader in ADempiere was only able to read TAB and comma-separated files. In order to read files with other separators, these previously had to be converted in one of the readable formats. We from Catura now have extended the import loader so that it is now possible to define any character as a separator. So user are not forced to convert as many formats as before.

The changes have already been commited to ADempiere Trunk and are available there for immediate download.

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With the last update of Planet ADempiere, two new blogs have been added, the official blog of the ADempiere Project Management Committee and the blog of Mjukvara from Sweden. We look forward to extend Planet ADempiere  further and invite all ADempiere bloggers  to participate in the Planet ADempiere. The Planet is available from today via the website of the ABC network as well.

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Monday, May 24th 2010 leading implementers of the well known free and open source ERP application ADempiere, announced the launch of ADempiere Business Consultants (ABC).

“ABC is a network of Business Consulting companies based around the world who co-operate to provide professional evaluation, implementation and support services. ABC has developed advanced implementation and assurance methodologies based on feedback from our customers and from experience with a range of ERP products. We support customers in many countries and languages solving their operational, business and technical challenges”, an ABC spokesperson explained.

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Catura and 3 local partners host an event centering around the topic “NewSol 2010 – Newest  IT-Solutions from lower bavaria”. Details can be found in the invitation or, more detailed, in the german section of our blog.

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The different Sales Order Types in ADempiere can be quite confusing for first time ADempiere Users. Fortunately, Jairah from ADempiere.org created a great Sales Order Map to guide users through the different Doc types and displayed the consequences and impact of each sales order type. As german users struggle equally hard as others, i created a german version of this chart that can be downloaded here.

Recently, there was already a post in the german blogosphere, that discussed the different sales order types.

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ADempiere is a project brought to you by a huge community of developers, testers and users. With the power of open source huge projects can be created. Sometimes it is interesting to see, who has created which parts of the code and what the relations between the authors are.

This analysis can be done by looking at the Subversion logs in the repository. This is cumbersome and not viable for most people. In recenttimes there have been several attempts to make nice visualizations. (more…)

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