Belgium-based commercial open source software vendor OpenERP today announced the availability of OpenERP v6, the latest version of the company's enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite. OpenERP v6 includes updates to almost all of the components in the suite, including its CRM, Purchase Management, Manufacturing, Warehouse Management, Project Management, Accounting, Marketing, Human Resources, and Point of Sale modules.
OpenERP Web Interface
OpenERP says this version has more than a hundred new features in total, which are the result of thousands of customer and community suggestions and more than a year's worth of development from its community of 800 individual developers.
For those who have never experienced OpenERP, the company has set up a demo server where you can play around with examples of the different software modules. The idea is that customers can build a comprehensive ERP system one module at a time, eventually growing it into an end to end solution, contained within a single piece of software.
OpenERP v6 costs $39 per user per month and comes with a 1GB per user data limitation. Like previous versions, it can be deployed on site, and this version brings with it an SaaS on-demand version.
"We believe that SaaS and Open Source are an interesting combination. The customers always have an option if for any reason the SaaS platform no longer meets their needs. It is their insurance policy, and it is in line with our no lock-in policy," Mark Laporte, OpenERP's Chief Operations Officer said in a statement today. "Our competitors will never offer such flexibility".
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May 5, 2011
May 4, 2011
New Wi-Fi gear aims to wipe out Ethernet edge switches
A third new service is a patent-pending technology called Orthogonal Array Beam Forming (OABF). WLAN vendors over the past two years have been adding support for various optional parts of the 11n standard, (see from May 2010, "Major Wi-Fi changes ahead") including transmit beam forming (sometimes "beamforming"). The same waveform is sent over 11n's multiple antennas, with the magnitude and phase adjusted at each transmitter to focus the beam direction toward a particular receiver. This increases the signal's gain so it's more stable, and can be "steered around" interferers so it's more reliable.
[Ruckus Wireless in 2009 was the first to introduce beam forming for 11n products, exploiting its unique multi-component antenna design. Wireless blogger Craig Mathias used that introduction to explore the topic.]
Meru has created what it says is a more fine-grained alternative. Each Wi-Fi signal is made up of about 60 sub-carriers over a wide swath of spectrum, says Graham Melville, Meru's director of product management. Meru's code can optimize each of the sub-carriers and the result, he says, is an improvement in gain, or sensitivity, on the order of 8-10 dB.
The result of the improved gain is a higher signal quality and higher data rates: where Meru saw 36Mbps before applying its beamforming technology, it saw 54Mbps after, for example. "It stays at the high data rates because the signal is stronger, and better quality," Melville says.
The new access points also can use the optional Meru Proactive Spectrum Analysis as part of another service, called Air Traffic Services. One of the AP400 radios can be assigned the job of continually monitoring the Wi-Fi radio frequencies for unauthorized radios, analyzing the spectrum usage and interference, and running Meru's integrated wireless intrusion prevention system.
Another network service is called Mobile Application Segregation: administrators can create a dedicated channel for individual applications or groups of them, high definition video, or wireless VoIP.
John Cox covers wireless networking and mobile computing for "Network World."
[Ruckus Wireless in 2009 was the first to introduce beam forming for 11n products, exploiting its unique multi-component antenna design. Wireless blogger Craig Mathias used that introduction to explore the topic.]
Meru has created what it says is a more fine-grained alternative. Each Wi-Fi signal is made up of about 60 sub-carriers over a wide swath of spectrum, says Graham Melville, Meru's director of product management. Meru's code can optimize each of the sub-carriers and the result, he says, is an improvement in gain, or sensitivity, on the order of 8-10 dB.
The result of the improved gain is a higher signal quality and higher data rates: where Meru saw 36Mbps before applying its beamforming technology, it saw 54Mbps after, for example. "It stays at the high data rates because the signal is stronger, and better quality," Melville says.
The new access points also can use the optional Meru Proactive Spectrum Analysis as part of another service, called Air Traffic Services. One of the AP400 radios can be assigned the job of continually monitoring the Wi-Fi radio frequencies for unauthorized radios, analyzing the spectrum usage and interference, and running Meru's integrated wireless intrusion prevention system.
Another network service is called Mobile Application Segregation: administrators can create a dedicated channel for individual applications or groups of them, high definition video, or wireless VoIP.
John Cox covers wireless networking and mobile computing for "Network World."
May 3, 2011
New features of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 revealed
Microsoft on Monday offered new information about the next version of its enterprise resource planning software, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, and revealed that beta testing for the suite is expected to begin this month. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
Here's a point by point list of the improvements that Microsoft announced today:
* Dynamics AX 2012 comes with five high-level "industry templates," for instant optimization for specific usage scenarios: manufacturing, distribution, public sector, professional services and retail. Within these, Dynamics AX 2012 has customizable sets of Unified Natural Models that cover real-world situations that each of these businesses face.
* Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 uses Microsoft SQL Server as the default data management system, for more uniform embedded business intelligence functionality.
* Bi-directional integration with Microsoft Office 2010, and Enterprise Search functionality through connection with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services.
* Integration with Microsoft Lync 2010 collaboration and communication services.
* Overall design streamlining, including the simplification of processes, and access to RoleTailored business intelligence data.
* Support for currencies, time zones, languages, and regional banking, reporting and legislative compliance for business systems in 38 countries worldwide.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 logo
The beta of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 will be released this month, but Microsoft did not yet specify a date. The final release is expected to be available some time in August. Subsequent versions of Microsoft's ERP software will be available on the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft revealed on Monday. Their design will be similar to Microsoft's CRM products which are available both as on-premises software and as cloud-based SaaS.
Here's a point by point list of the improvements that Microsoft announced today:
* Dynamics AX 2012 comes with five high-level "industry templates," for instant optimization for specific usage scenarios: manufacturing, distribution, public sector, professional services and retail. Within these, Dynamics AX 2012 has customizable sets of Unified Natural Models that cover real-world situations that each of these businesses face.
* Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 uses Microsoft SQL Server as the default data management system, for more uniform embedded business intelligence functionality.
* Bi-directional integration with Microsoft Office 2010, and Enterprise Search functionality through connection with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services.
* Integration with Microsoft Lync 2010 collaboration and communication services.
* Overall design streamlining, including the simplification of processes, and access to RoleTailored business intelligence data.
* Support for currencies, time zones, languages, and regional banking, reporting and legislative compliance for business systems in 38 countries worldwide.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 logo
The beta of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 will be released this month, but Microsoft did not yet specify a date. The final release is expected to be available some time in August. Subsequent versions of Microsoft's ERP software will be available on the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft revealed on Monday. Their design will be similar to Microsoft's CRM products which are available both as on-premises software and as cloud-based SaaS.
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