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ERP5 Basics For Consultants

ERP5 Basics from a consultant perspective - ways to get consulting prospects on ERP5 and why Nexedi does not do joint development projects.
  • Last Update:2016-04-25
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This section introduces ways to work with Nexedi, creator and maintainer of ERP5 in research, academia or as a sales consultant.

Consulting on ERP5

Note: Because of the general complexity of Nexedi services regarding ERP5 implementations do NOT include joint development between integrators, partners, consultants and Nexedi. This guarantees responsiblity for a project rests only in one hand and prevents conflicts from communication and related issues which often cause ERP implementations to fail.


Why ERP5?

ERP5 is a 100% open-source solution created 15 years ago to manage the most complex and demanding business applications. ERP5 has been implemented across multiple industries (banking, government, automotive, et. al) around the world with many installations still running today (refer to the success stories for sample case studies).

The ERP5 architecture is very flexible and can be adapted to any business need and process giving partners are truly universal tool to provide top level, industry-grade solutions. A fully open-source code base along with a stable core extended by functional components and complete open source stack allow to provide solutions incorporating consulting, development, hosting and application life cycle management.

Advantages:

  • Highly customizable Open Source ERP
  • Fully open-source stack (hosting, networking, application management)
  • Profit from reasearch in areas such as Big Data, Machine Learning and Networking
  • Implemented Industry Templates from which to work off
  • Hostable applications for desktop, tablet and smartphone included
  • Enterprise Grade Security and Resiliceny
  • Test Driven Development
  • 100% Free and Open Source
  • OEM license exception to keep custom developments under proprietary license


Working with Nexedi on implementing ERP5

If you want to work with and help distributing ERP5, you can either work on a fully standalone basis (support available, fixed rate/hour) or as ERP5 Consultant providing services to potential prospects and generating implementation leads. Nexedi will implement the project with the consultant receiving a sales comission.

Standalone

To be able to implement an ERP5 implementation requires learning ERP5 through and through which may require up to a two years plus being able to consult a client. ERP5 applications can be hosted through SlapOS allowing to focus on implementation only or locally on the clients' premises in which case knowledge to acquire also includes handling the development and management of the underlying infrastructure.

Advantages:

  • Full project control and sales
  • Developer & Hosting Support (fixed rate/hour)

ERP5 Consultant

Acting as consultant enables Nexedi to take full responsibility for the project implementation. During an initial evaulation it will be decided whether a project is accepted or not with consultants receiving a commission on the projects being implemented. For details on the level of commission and payment formalities please contact us directly through the contact section.

Advantages:

  • Comission based, no project responsibility
  • Only ERP5 consulting necessary
  • Implementation by experts

To start, please refer to the consultant section of the ERP5 documentation for case studies and consultation examples as well as the getting started area to find our collaborator learning track.