iDempiere

What do you like best?

We use iDempiere for several years now. We are happy with it.

(1 ) iDempiere is a serious enterprise software suitable for medium and larger businesses.

(2) we have 500+ active users daily, 100-400 mln calls to DB daily. You can have multiple application servers and load balancing between them, again all with the use of open source solutions that are well documented by iDempiere community.

(3) iDempiere has 2 distinct engines for business process automation: Workflow and Requests. They are truly build-in and they allow us to formalize every workflow we want, spanning from our vendor, to our employee to our customer.

(4) It is RPA (Robotic Processes Automation) ready. We use more than 100 of Robotic processes that do a lot of job for us - with the help of a standard functionality in iDempiere named Schedulers.

(5) In terms of technology iDempiere has a modern structure - a core surrounded by number of plugins orchestrated one with each other. In real life this means that often we can modify the behavior of our enterprise system with no need to stop and restart it. In other words, we can modify our system on a fly. If your business is working 24/7/365 it is important.

(6) iDempiere is true open source. No part of our system is locked, we have access to all the functionalities developed within community. All code is open and this code is no mystery for middle or even junior java developer.

(7) Traceability capabilities of iDempiere are robust, that is good for food and beverage business.

(8) of course no licensing burden. We are happy to free our mind to think of improvement, of best practices, not of licensing costs.

What do you dislike?

iDempiere ERP is a big and complex system suited for businesses that can afford competent in house team or capable service provider.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Besides standard ERP functionality in the last 2 years we were able to successfully implement 2 very important projects, both greatly facilitated by our iDempiere installation:

- Getting ISO 22000 standards implemented in our Food manufacturing and getting certified for ISO 22000 by a well known international body.

- Powering Loyalty program for 600'000+ our retail customers.