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Financial Data Warehouse

Compiere is by design a financial data warehouse. Old applications often offer a separate financial data warehouse to allow to use accounting data for decision making. The general approach is to transfer the (compressed) sub-ledger data to the general ledger and the in an additional step “enrich” this summarized GL info and store this in [...]

How To: Create custom Report

Compiere privides three types of reports:

Ad-hoc reports right from the Window Tab (click on the Report icomor ALT-R). You use the Search button to select the records you want to report on.
List Reports you start from the menu with ... [More] optional parameters
Forms (like Invoices, …)

All reporting in Compierehas two parts: The data (”model”) and the format [...] [Less]

How To: Add new Column

Objective: Add a custom column to a table; example: Add atax numbercheck date to business partners (required in some countries, if you sell to end users [always have to pay tax] and resellers, which are exempt as long as they have a valid tax ... [More] number)
Steps:
Sign inwith a Role ofSystem Administrator (user System or SuperUser)
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Compiere Announces Availability of Service Packs

Compiere announces the concept of periodic service packs. Service packs enable customers to safely apply bug fixes to their production Compiere systems without requiring a functional upgrade to the next release. A service pack consists of full ... [More] source code, binary build, release notes and installation documentation. The most recent Compiere Service Pack is Compiere 2.6.3 which is available on top of stable release 2.6 (formerly known as 2.6.1). Released in August 2007, the service pack includes 86 bug fixes, usability enhancements and a more robust security model. Compiere will make Service Pack 2.6.3 available to all customers with support subscriptions, including to customers with Self-service Support. (3 comments) [Less]

Compiere Extends Product Flexibility and Deployment Ease

Compiere Extends Product Flexibility and Deployment Ease with New Release (0 comments)

Multi-Tenant Architecture (MTA)

Many Application Service Provider (ASP) offer either the Classic Hosted Model or the new Multi-Tenant Architecture (MTA). Examples of the Classic Model are companies like Oracle who claim that the advantage is to allow unique and more extensive ... [More] customizations. Proponents of a Multi Tenant Architecture are companies like SalesForce reaping the benefits of [...] [Less]

Model Driven Architecture (Part 2)

Active Dictionary or Model Driven Architecture (MDA) systems may generate executable code behind the curtains, but there is no need or no option to modify the low level code. Compiere takes it a step further and executes the model rules directly. Without any generation or coding you can

add a new column to a table
add optional [...]

Expansion of Compiere

We just announced the addition of 4 new people to the Compiere management team. The SourceForge community might be particularly interested in our recent hire of Sunny Gosain as VP in charge of product development and support. We also opened our ... [More] European office led by Yves Sandfort, longtime Compiere partner and frequent contributor to these forums. We also hired additional sales support for the Americas region and a marketing director. All of the details are in the press release below. (0 comments) [Less]

Model Driven Architecture (Part 1)

Compiere employs a Model Driven Architecture (MDA) to enable broader application adaptability, faster deployments and lower cost of ownership than is possible with products utilizing earlier generations of enterprise software architectures. This is ... [More] the first of two entries on MDA and Compiere. This first article covers the historical foundations of MDA as well as [...] [Less]

Compiere Origins and History

The history of Compiere, the primary Open Source ERP & CRM Business Application. Started in 1999 from scratch, reaching proftitability on 2003, VC funding in 2006 - with a worldwide partner network.