Bista solutions – a leading provider of Processmaker from India with other business software have extended the “Gold” partnership with Processmaker for the second year. Bista solutions started partnership with Processmaker a leading open source BPM tool provider last year and after the succesful implementations done with Toyota and others Bista decided to move on with the partnership with processmaker.
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Bista solutions are the only "Gold Partners" for Processmaker and have done many implementation of the leading BPM workflow management tool.
Other services of Bista solutions include implementation of OpenERP, vTiger CRM, eCommerce integration with Business software and development of Games and Moblie applications.
In implementation of any ERP for any organisation there are basic cost involved apart from capital cost such as cost of the software, customization etc. there are other outgoings which is equally important. While taking a review from a Project lead who was implementing "SAP R3" for a gulf Project he told me that " There are many organisation who have to face failures in implementation of ERP projects" which means the risk and integration cost are the important barriers to all the positive you gains from such system. That’s the reason today, few SME's (Small and Medium Enterprises) use ERP.
Apart from the same larger ERP players such as SAP, Oracle &; Microsoft haven’t been able to reconcile the power and comprehensive cover of an ERP system with the ease and flexibility wanted by the users. But this is exactly what small and medium enterprises are looking for. Henceforth because of its modularity, collaborative developments in Open ERP have been cleanly integrated, as it enables any company to select from a large list of available functions. (if you research there are more that 500+ modules available today in OpenERP) which allows the client with accessibility, flexibility, and simplicity which are considered to be very important for the development.
What I faced while marketing OpenERP in Indian market that is that SME employees are not tech savvy they know basics such as tally accounting, use of Ms office etc. and hence clients always asked for a system which can be used by any person in the organisation who have knowledge of "ABC" in computer so that the time and cost involved in training for several month could decrease further.
Hence with OpenERP all the needs is been covered in:-
Accounting & Financial Management with different countries systems
Business Process Management (Work flow management )
Sales and Purchases Automation
Document Management System
500+ other modules, which includes CRM, and so on.
Employees enjoy using OpenERP because of the following reason.
No need to use different software as Major Modules is been covered in OpenERP.
Because of Majority of modules are available in the system there is less chances of opening other windows for the same and also there is no double encoding of information.
OpenERP automate all administrative tasks
User-friendly web and rich interface with a very good architecture.
Admin can activate modules as an when require with no additional cost.
Modules can be removed for those who dont use them for eg: for Purchase manager it will be inventory, Purchase, creating invoice etc only.
Because of the simplicity in the usage of Open ERP there are not only SME's who are implementing OpenERP system there are Big organisations also who are considering OpenERP for their use. This diversity is also found in the various sectors and trades which use this software, including agricultural products, textiles, public auctions, IT, and trade associations.
OpenERP: - What other says - Review of People through social networking sites
I played with openbravo for a projet. We ended up not choosing it.
Issues - Slow... It required an immense server just for normal operation.
Did not cover requirements - while it has a module or two that TinyERP
doesn't TinyERP has many modules that openbravo doesn't
otherwise openbravo is a nice project and I wish them well...
I specially looked at TinyERP and OpenBravo, so far my conclusion are:
TinyERP is probably is best on all points. OK, Openbravo might be a little sexier graphically, but except that I think it's really not as good. Still I would rate OpenBravo number #2. In my opinion Openbravo already outperforms Compiere or will do that during this year if not yet.
For OpenBravo vs. TinyERP, I would say:
On the functional side:
* OpenBravo is very weak on CRM
* OpenBravo is very weak for services companies
* OpenBravo might be better on POS, while not even sure
* generally speaking OpenBravo has no modularity and won't have soon, so lot's of TinyERP plugin goodness isn't available in TinyERP. So ERP verticalization is not for tomorrow for OpenBravo will it looks in the close future for TinyERP. Functional verticalization is already happening; only a proper packaging will then be required.
* OpenBravo is way too weak on French accounting which matters for us.
Great future :
Overall I think Tiny is a great product promised to a great future. Praise for it!
In my coming post i would be covering with Open source Friend or Foe? So do check out.
ProcessMaker one of the best Open Source Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow software specifically targeted and designed for Small and Mid-sized Enterprises (SME).
A user-friendly application to manage workflow efficiently and effectively with a great Architecture. A little literacy in Computer and that's all, which means that with little knowledge a Users can design and run workflows.
The main advantage of ProcessMaker is that it increase trasparency in the organisation and reduce Paper and the same can be applicable to different departments such as Human Resource, Admin, Finance Operations etc.
ProcessMaker workflow management software is easy to use and easy to implement. The toolbox ProcessMaker allows you to create forms, design documents, manage roles and users, designate routing rules, link to third-party systems, and map fully-functional workflows.
The software is entirely web-based, making it simple to coordinate workflow across offices. ProcessMaker connects with your existing IT infrastructure, including DMS, ERP, CRM, and BI systems and databases.
ProcessMaker Enterprise clients enjoy a fully supported, top quality BPM suite with the added benefits of Open Source.
ProcessMaker adapts to meet your IT needs and requires minimal implementation resources. It is Flexible and customizable, ProcessMaker has been implemented in a variety of industries including finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and government.
I would be covering with different Process maps in ProcessMaker for different requests.
Bista Solutions Inc. - Open Source Applications "Gold Partners" - ProcessMaker - A leading Open source provider of BPM Tool
Introduction: -
As we all know that today doing Business is very much complicated and competitive task. It is not only competitive in terms of selling the products and services, but also in-terms of kind of management one organisation carry out. Every business in todays economy want to increase their Graph points on top.
Hence, it is necessary for every organisation to see that what kind of work focus is going on in the internal department of an organisation, for the same there is a need of a BPM Tool which provide and solve all the internal departmental problems.
Business Process Management is a management tool which focused on providing all the aspects of an organization with the needs and requirement of clients.BPM provides effectiveness and efficiency in different kind of processes of an organization. BPM is a tool which provide management with improve in the processes on a continuous basis.An organisation is more efficient, effective,capable and work with pace if they are implementing BPM tool because it focuses on different hierarchy in an organisation.
As BPM allows organizations to obtain business process from technology infrastructure, it goes far beyond automating business processes (software) or solving business problems (suite). BPM helps organisations to create competitive advantage.
Technology plays an important role in allowing the user to :-
Improve their process by designing them better through which it would be more suitable for their organisation
Also it Simulate the change to the process, and by then Comparing the various simulations to determine an optimal improvement
Selecting and implementing the improvement
It give control throught the deployment of implementation and defining the user define dashboards which monitor the improvement. in my nest post.
Business Process Management also addresses many of the mission critical IT issues such as:-
It provide to manage end to end, customer facing processes
It merge data and increase visibility.
It increase the flexibility and functionality of current infrastructure and data
It helps because it can be integrated with existing systems.
In my comming posts I would be starting with the Open source BPM & Workflow management software.
As discussed in my last posting of the blog that i would be concentrating on the negative points of CRM and the problems which is faced by Company and vendors while implementing it.
The points which we will be raising on the disadvantages and problems need an in-depth research for the same. where i would be researching on the same with a sample developers of Bista solutions Inc. who are into the implementation of CRM activities.
This would need around 2 weeks of time to jot down most of the obstacles in implementing CRM and solutions to it.
Mean while i would like to start with software which most industries are initiating for implementing.
Yes its BPM
Business Process Management also know as Work flow management
So check out my next post soon on Business Process Management.
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We develop unique and innovative solutions to help businesses reach their customers most effectively.
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