Openbravo

The Business of Modularity
Presentation for Business Partners Empowering the Ecosystem
December 29th, 2009

Agenda

The Openbravo Open Source Vision

What is Modularity Empowering the Ecosystem

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The Openbravo Open Source Vision

Building software in community

We believe communities build better software than traditionalcentralized companies can

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The Openbravo Open Source Vision

A different way to build software
No single vendor can build a solution that addresses the needs of all companies

Vision 1: “Business process optimization” Automate key business processes to help companies be competitive

Vision 2: “Data / Information is king” Manage alldata reliably and efficiently for better decision making

Vision 3: “Empowering people” Optimize worker’s value added through user centric solutions

Our vision: “Empowering the ecosystem” An ecosystem of partners with the right skills to build vertical solutions to help companies better manage their businesses
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The Openbravo Open SourceVision

Decentralized developer communities are more productive
The Firefox case
•  The community –  45 full-time developers –  1,000 community code contributors –  >20,000 nightly testers and –  >500,000 beta testers –  >50 million daily users and >125 million total users •  > 6,800 third-party add-ons •  Number of add-ons before Mozilla’s rearchitecture? –  Roughly zero –  Compare with AppleSafari and Microsoft IE, which also are weak on community

The Openbravo case
•  The community –  48 full-time developers –  > 8.000 registered developers –  11% of the commits are contributed by the community •  218 projects registered in the Forge –  61 localization projects registered –  122 projects lead independently by community members not related to the Openbravo company

A modulararchitecture is critical to facilitate a decentralized community development process.

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Agenda

The Openbravo Open Source Vision

What is Modularity Empowering the Ecosystem

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What is modularity

The Modularity Ecosystem Infrastructure
Modularity Forge
•  Platform forcollaborative development -  For Openbravo ERP and POS -  For third party developments -  For private projects

Exchange
•  Marketplace to find free and commercial extensions for Openbravo ERP

•  Modular architecture in Openbravo ERP r2.50 -  Facilitates distributed development -  Lowers barriers to contribution -  Reduces time to market -  Enables “drive-by” contributions

Central Repository•  Distribution mechanism for Openbravo ERP extensions -  Functional modules, industry templates, localization packs •  Support for Commercial extensions

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Modularity

Modularity components
Concept Description Modularity includes the concept of: •  Extension Modules
-  Base content container. It can include all types of artifacts butConfiguration Scripts: Application Dictionary components, Software resources and Reference data. -  Modules are the way to add new elements to Openbravo ERP. -  However, it cannot modify elements of other modules including core-, to avoid crossed dependencies between them.

•  Packs
-  Packs can contain a number of modules developed by different parties -  Special packs are localization packsand vertical packs

•  Industry templates
-  A combination of packs and a configuration script -  Only one per system

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Modularity

Existing Extension Modules
Tax Report Launcher Elondra bmSales integration

Illustrative examples available in the Forge

CIF validator

Mass Advanced Payment

Mass Invoicing

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