Are you planning to implement an Open Source ERP system for your business?

The traditional paradigms of software development have a high rate of failure in the context of complex business solutions like ERP systems. The Open Source Enterprise application domain makes it further complex and a cost effective implementation demands in addition to other implicit capabilities - a community centred business model.

Unlike proprietary systems where even simple requirements or designs can prove cost-prohibitive or technologically infeasible, Open Source systems in addition to being flexible, may already have multiple existing solutions (contributed by the community). The key challenge here is finding the existing nearest solution, which is half the success and this is rarely achieved by organisations which lack a community centred business model.

At Openlabs, our engineers and business consultants are encouraged to share their knowledge and wisdom with the large open source communities behind the technologies we work on. In addition to improving the technologies, this empowers us to ensure that our customers pay only for filling the gap rather than a build from scratch for solutions that may already exist.

If you are keen to understand more about our methodology you can visit the following links to understand more:

• Requirements Engineering
• Specification of Requirements
• Requirements Prioritization
• Impact Analysis