ERP System

Lab Act. # 1: ERP System

1. Search for the least 2 propriety and 2 Open Source ERP System and supply the ff. info:
Propreitary: 
1.) mySAP from SAP

• 2.) PeopleSoft from Oracle

• Open Source
• 3.) Openbravo
  4.) Fedena
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1.) mySAP from SAP

a. Features/Description
This solution incorporates accounting, logistics and human resources – the fundamental business processes at the heart of every enterprise. It is able to provide these functions for both corporate headquarters and smaller subsidiaries. Essential mySAP ERP allows companies to gain greater control over their administrative and operations environment in order to increase efficiency and profitability. It is designed in such a way that companies only need to implement the functions that they require as and when necessary thus reducing the implementation time, the cost of ownership and making any future upgrades more manageable.
  
b. Modules available for the ERP System and give a short by the ERP System

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• 1. Financial Accounting (FI) - The Financial Accounting (SAP FI) module in SAP is designed to capture organizations business transactions in a manner that will satisfy external reporting requirements.
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• 2. Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) - provides the ability to have a better view of your corporate cash flow, manage disputes with your customers, and add efficiency to your billing processes.
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• 3. Controlling (CO) -  provide organizations with a method of slicing and dicing data to view costs from an internal management perspective and provide a view of profitability beyond that of basic financial reporting. 
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• 4. Materials Management (MM) - consists of all master data, system configuration, and transactions to complete the Procure to Pay process.
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• 5. Sales and Distribution (SD) -  consists of all master data, system configuration, and transactions to complete the Order to Cash process.

    other modules includes: 

• Logistics Execution (LE)
• Production Planning (PP)
• Quality Management (QM)
• Plant Maintenance (PM)
• Project System (PS)
• Human Resources (HR) 
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• c. Industries served by the ERP System

    Chevron, Compaq, DirecTV, Kodak, Intel, NASA, Shell, Saralee, Stabilus, Phillips
  
d. Programming languages available
SAP use ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) which can be classified as 4th Generation Programming Language. SAP...ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is a high level programming language created by the German software company SAP. Its syntax is somewhat similar to COBOL. It has many of the features of other modern programming languages such as the familiar C, Visual Basic, and Power Builder.

e. Reference Links
http://www.simplysap.com/company/mysap.htm
http://www.erpsystem.net/proprietary-erp-software/
http://www.erptips.com/Learn-SAP/SAP-Module-Overviews/Sales-and-Distribution-SD.asp
http://www.erptips.com/Learn-SAP/SAP-Module-Overviews/Materials-Management-MM.asp
http://www.erptips.com/Learn-SAP/SAP-Module-Overviews/Controlling-CO.asp
http://www.erptips.com/Learn-SAP/SAP-Module-Overviews/Financial-Supply-Chain-Management-FSCM.asp
http://www.erptips.com/Learn-SAP/SAP-Module-Overviews/Financial-Accounting.asp

• 2.) PeopleSoft from Oracle
• a. Features/Description

Oracle's PeopleSoft applications are designed to address the most complex business requirements. They provide comprehensive business and industry solutions, enabling organizations to increase productivity, accelerate business performance, and provide a lower cost of ownership.

b. Modules available for the ERP System and give a short by the ERP System

1. Human Capital Management - enables you to architect a global foundation for HR data and improved business processes.
2. Financial Management -  best practices to achieve world-class finance processes, meet financial and statutory requirements, and efficiently delivers greater visibility into business-critical information.
3. Supplier Relationship Management -  is an integrated suite of procurement applications that dramatically cut all supply management costs.
4. Enterprise Services Automation - enables project-centric organizations and departments to establish core operational processes that support full project lifecycle management-across operations and finance-from project selection, planning and staffing, through execution, cost control, and analysis. 
5. Supply Chain Management - provides a cohesive yet flexible solution for the synchronized supply chain, driving efficiencies in cost savings over your entire supply chain—including your plan-to-produce and order-to-cash business processes.
6. PeopleTools – Tools and Technology - provides a comprehensive development toolset that supports the development and runtime of PeopleSoft applications.

c. Industries served by the ERP System
barclay capital Inc.,Viacom Inc.,Wells Fargo & co, West Corporation

d. Programming languages available
The PeopleSotf uses proprietity language like java
e. Reference Links
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/peoplesoft-enterprise/overview/index.html
http://salesinsideinc.com/Portals/28329/images/peoplesoft-customer-list.png

3.) Openbravo
a. Features/Description

Openbravo's award winning agile ERP is known for its flexible, modular architecture which empowers agile businesses to adapt the software to their specific business processes.

b. Modules available for the ERP System and give a short by the ERP System

The Openbravo 3.0 architecture is implemented using Openbravo Core and several related modules:

• The JSON module provides the JSON REST web service, it is used for the client-server data communication
• The Weld module provides dependency injection and component management
• The Kernel module takes care of infrastructure tasks as request processing, event handling, compression and caching
• The DataSource module uses the JSON module and provides higher level data request functionality for querying and data related actions
• The Smartclient module provides the Smartclient user interface library
• The application module contains the implementation of the navigation bar, grids and forms and other application oriented client and server side code.

c. Industries served by the ERP System
Offerum, Khayal Alwatniya, 3D MEDITEC, BUT

d. Programming languages available

To develop in/with Openbravo it is at least required to have a basic (one year) understanding of the following technology:

• Java: The programing language used in all the server side components of Openbravo. It is used in all levels from the core components to ERP business logic.
• J2EE: The platform used for server programming in the Java language it adds libraries to provide enterprise capabilities to java applications running on an application server.
• Apache Ant: The tool used to execute the build tasks related to Openbravo like compiling, deployment to an application server, exporting and importing the database schema, etc.
• Eclipse IDE: An integrated development environment that helps in all the development tasks related to Openbravo like editing source files, debugging, executing build tasks, etc.
• SQL: A database computer declarative language. It is used across all the Openbravo server side components to access data stored in the relational database management systems used: PosgreSQL and Oracle.
• HTML: The markup language used to render the Openbravo user interface in the web browser used by Openbravo users.
• XML: The markup language used to describe different documents in Openbravo like REST Web Services, Jasper Reports, configuration files, template files, etc.

e. Reference Links 
http://www.openbravo.com/why-openbravo-success-stories
http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Openbravo_3_Architecture
http://www.openbravo.com/about-us
http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Getting_started_with_Openbravo

4.) Fedena
a. Features/Description

• Fedena is a multipurpose school management software which is used by thousands of educational institutions worldwide for all administration, management and learning related activities. Use Fedena management information system to manage students, teachers, employees, courses and all the system and process related to running your institute efficiently.
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• b. Modules available for the ERP System and give a short by the ERP System
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• c. Industries served by the ERP System
• Schools, training center and e-governance

d. Programming languages available

Fedena is developed on the powerful Ruby on Rails framework and gives us an excellent framework on which we can provide you with a very stable and reliable product.

e. Reference Links 

http://www.fedena.com/

2. In your own point of view based on your research

a. What are the disadvantages of and advantages of Proprietary ERP System over Open-Source ERP (Vice -Versa).

The advantages of the Open-source is its free and not costly but the disadvantages of it is that the popularity of the product is not that high and the the quality is not guaranteed since the open source we're just made by the ordinary people unlike to the propriety. On the other hand the propriety has advantages compared to the open-source,it is so popular and you can have the costumer support and assistance unlike to open source that you have to answers on your own although it has community but you cannot direct ask the assistance of the company.

 b. Which type of the ERP System is best recommended for industries (Open Source/Propritary) Justify your answer.

In terms of the quality and popularity of the product I would recommend the Proprietary one but it is so costly, so I would prefer to use open source. Open source is not that hard to used and at the same it is free and the community support is so wide.

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