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What is OFBIZ?
Ofbiz is a complete suit for all your business needs. It hardly matters which industry you are belonging to, Ofbiz fits into almost all industries to manage manufacturing, production run, HR management, product catalogs, financial accounting, sales, warehouse management and many more.. You can modify it according to your needs easily and effectively. If you need to introduce additional functionality, don't bother on that part. That can be easily achieved. Following are the main features of OFBiz.
Apache OFBiz offers a great deal of functionality, including:
- Products & catalog management
- Sales promotion & pricing management
- Order management (sales & purchase)
- Customer relationship management (CRM)
- warehouse management
- Order fulfillment
- Financial accounting (invoicing, payment & billing accounts, fixed assets and much more)
- Manufacturing management
- General work effort management (events, tasks, projects, requests, etc)
- content management (for product content, web sites, general content etc)
- Point Of Sales (POS) module using XUI as rich client interface
- Advanced e-commerce to web-enable your business
- and much more all in a single package!
Technical architectural overview:
Open For Business (OFBiz) is a suite of enterprise applications built on a common architecture using common data, logic and process components. The loosely coupled nature of the applications makes these components easy to understand, extend and customize.
The applications and application components that come with the system provide you with a broad and flexible basis that can be used as-is with the best-practices based designs, or customized to your own special needs. The applications facilitate management of everything from parties and products to accounting, customer service and internal resource and asset management.
Ofbiz is basically java based product, which can be easily deployed on any OS and can be used effectively. You just need to have a server with java environment. You can choose from a wide variety of databases, out of which MySql and derby are most efficiently and successfully used.
Benefits
The tools and architecture of OFBiz make it easy to efficiently develop and maintain enterprise applications. It also makes it easy to customize and extend existing functionality when you have a specific need.
To read "OFBiz Technical Introduction" online
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| Services |
Although many business functions are already covered by the current ERP syst� besides that, if you have some other requirements, we are here to facilitate you with the following services :
Mapping : Ofbiz has almost each and everything ready according to the business needs. Almost all the main modules which are needed in the business are already built and can be used as such. Required changes can be made very easily in these modules. In general, after understanding client's requirement, we map the processes to ensure that existing modules sync accordingly with each other to meet the requirements.
Customization : Since Ofbiz provides the flexibility to customize its components our team has the expertise to configure different modules according to client's requirement. In this process, all the mapped processes got implemented actually to the system. All needed existing modules got customized according to the client's needs. Configuring client's company, creating parties, grating them permissions, creating suppliers and customer are few to name in this process.
Development : Ofbiz functionality can be developed according to the needs of the clients. Its possible to modify the existing modules according to the clients needs, like adding some other information to the existing module or to develop some specific module completely from the scratch. All care is taken while modifying the existing module so that changes in the existing modules can't affect the other ones.
Enhancements : We also work in the direction of enhancing the ofbiz according to the client's needs. We also enhance the functionality of the existing modules. Any kind of enhancements are properly and carefully made and quality work is delivered to the clients.
Implementation : We have an expertise in development of applications using ofbiz framework as well as implementation of technical aspects of ofbiz. If you have any of your own kind of application and business processes are needed in that, we will create your application in obbiz, so that we can reuse most of the existing functionality as needed by your application.
Server Deployment : We have qualified and efficient system administrators, who also setup client's servers according to the client's needs efficiently and in time. All the tasks included in setting up server from setting the environment to the database setup and application setup, are taken care by us. The ofbiz instance is properly deployed on server by us.
Training : Training has been also provided by us so that user can be comfortable in hands on with the ofbiz application by making him understand about the technical aspects of ofbiz including installation, customization etc. We give proper training to our clients on ofbiz, and also keen to guide and help our clients if they need any kind of help from us, any time.
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| OFBIZ Project |
| Diet Pills for DAWLP Health Store |
Objective:We have configured the syst� for DAWLP Health Store to manage all their back office processes using this application. |
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| Machine Occupancy Report for Recognition Express |
Objective: We have generated a report that derives the occupancy of a particular machine routed for production runs. |
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| Trialogue System |
Objective:We have mapped and enhanced ofbiz eCommerce system for this extensively configurable product. |
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| Point of Sale for T-Mobile Application |
Objective: Ofbiz POS implementation for mobile stores. This has been done for a T-mobile based mobile store in US. |
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| Point of Sale for garment industry |
Objective:POS and eCommerce mapping & customization for a garment industry. |
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| Far Horizon Travel Company |
Objective:Our client was into the business of managing the inbound processes for delhi based travel comany named Far Horizon. |
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| Why OFBIZ |
The Open For Business Project is a collaborative effort involving a large group of users and developers and is moderated by a small central team. The applications and framework components are being used in a wide variety of businesses and applications and are customized heavily in many circumstances to meet the needs of the organizations using the software.
This is only possible and can only operate efficiently and effectively as an open source project. This is in sharp contrast to the style of most commercial vendors that restrict many possible uses of and extensions to their software through design limitations or licensing restrictions in order to extract a greater profit from the use of the software. Much of the early commercial software was much more flexible and open and less restrictive than many modern packages. As that trend continues more developers and users of software start to consider a more trusting alternative.
While those who contribute to the project, including the moderators, choose not to force others who use it to pay them, they can benefit in many other ways. Often you will find that the system is so close to what you need that a small amount of effort on your part can change the system to be perfect for you. If that effort is contributed back to the community others in a similar situation can help improve and maintain it. You as the contributor you can freely upgrade your own system with other improvements in the main project without having to worry about your changes that might conflict with his addition. |
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| About Palinfocom |
Pal InfoCom Technologies has been envisioned to be a key global player in developing bespoke eApplications and delivering eSolutions to the businesses intending to use communication technologies. Anchored by industry experienced professionals, we bring along our services for meeting your requirements to build mobile, VoIP applications, eCommerce & CRM web portals development. We have so far serviced Spice telecom, BSNL (Punjab), elysi tech USA, MYHBIZ South Africa, amhCard USA. Our global delivery centre is based at Mohali (near Chandigarh).
Our development team consists of B.Tech / MCA engineers.
We have skills in Java (J2EE/J2ME) & C++. We consciously strive to follow best practices to deliver value to our clients.
For more information, please contact us at enquiry@ofbiz.in |
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| General Features |
Free & open source software
- No license or license maintenance costs
- No vendor, service provider, or application lock-in
- Active and supportive community
- You get full source code
- You can see how everything works
- You can track down issues quickly
- You can change anything you want
- Apache 2.0 Open Source License
- You don't have to open source your changes
- You can repackage, distribute, and even sell derivative software
- You can say it is based on Open For Business
Standards based
- It is easy to learn for those familiar with similar software
- It is easy to reuse existing software based on the same standards
- It is easy to integrate with other internal or partner systems
- Based on: Sun Java, J2EE; W3C XML, HTML, SOAP; WfMC XPDL; OMG GL, Party, Product, Workflow
All applications built on the same framework, tools & components
- No need to learn and use many different technologies
- No need to integrate applications
- No need to deal with limited features because of poor integrations between disparate technologies
- Huge cost savings because of consistent and easy to maintain components
Standards based flexible and generic data model
- Covers all major entities used in businesses
- Provides a structure to simplify the achievement of custom data needs
- Uses common terms for entity names to make it easier to understand and use
Flexible and efficient to use data layer
- No database system lock-in; supports many different databases
- No need to write redundant persistence code and configuration
- Easy to use XML data definitions
- Powerful API offers generic operations that behave differently based on data definitions
- Most operations can be done with a single line of code and no need to write supporting code
Loosely coupled multi-layer component architecure
- Distributed architecture
- Service based logic layer
- Advanced web application framework
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| Main Features |
Applications
eCommerce
- Perfect for B2C and B2B eCommerce
- Can be easily configured for secure or public catalog viewing
- Supports automatic switching from HTTP (insecure) to HTTPS (secure) and back based on protection desired for each page
- Product Finding
Product search
- Supports any combination of constraints per search, including keyword, category, feature, and other constraints
- Products in a category can be layed out with different templates assigned to different categories, and different sub-templates
- Assigned to different products
- By default 10 products are shown at a time and you can go to previous and next pages (these settings are easily changed)
- Products can belong to multiple categories
- Sub-categories can belong to multiple parent categories
- Unlimited number of products, categories and catalogs
Product detail view
- Displays large product image (if one is specified), with a link to the detail image (if one is specified)
- Displays all relevant product information including name, short & long descriptions, price, whether or not inventory is available, etc
- desired associated product through simple template changes
Shopping cart random cross-sells
- As a product is added to the shopping cart it is no longer shown
- Displayed on the shopping cart detail page
Quick re-order
- Re-order list built from products previously ordered
- List is weighted by quantity ordered and frequency of ordering
- Default re-order quantity is an average of all quantities previous ordered for a given product
Promotions
- Promotion Conditions Supported
- Promotion Actions Supported
- Use limits per order, customer, promotion
- Party Manager
- Marketing Manager
- Catalog Manager
- Facility Manager
- Order Manager
- Accounting Manager
- Work Effort Manager
- Web Site Management
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| OFBiz Team @ Pal InfoCom:
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Project Director: S. Pal Ahuja
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| Team Lead: Ashish Gupta |
| Business Analyst: Preeti Verma |
| Developers: Harkomal, Ajay Sodhi, Taruna, Nikhil, Varun |
| Deployment Engineer: Kumar Gaurav |
| QA Tester: Asem Sanjit Singh |
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| Fitment |
Following are the broad categories of industries who use OFBiz:
- Extractive / Discrete Manufacturing
- Distribution model
- Service Industries
Ofbiz can be easily used by any business. In majority, following industries are best suited for Ofbiz:
- Oil and Gas
- Offshore Services
- Heavy Earthmoving Repair
- Food Manufacturing
- Steel Engineering
- Marine Engineering
- Food Growers
- Automotive Services
- Banking and Finance
- Agricultural Suppliers
- Paper Products Manufacture
- Precision Machining
- Machine Manufacturing
- Design and Engineering
- Industrial Equipment Sales and Service
- Mining Support Services
- Safety and Health Consultancies
- Print Media
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Apache OFBiz offers a great deal of functionality, including:
- advanced e-commerce
- catalog management
- promotion & pricing management
- order management (sales & purchase)
- customer management (part of general party management)
- warehouse management
- fulfillment (auto stock moves, batched pick, pack & ship)
- accounting (invoice, payment & billing accounts, fixed assets)
- manufacturing management
- general work effort management (events, tasks, projects, requests, etc)
- content management (for product content, web sites, general content, blogging, forums, etc)
- a maturing Point Of Sales (POS) module using as rich client interface
- and much more all in an open source package!
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