This post is about Enterprise Resoruce Planning (ERP).
Enterprise Resource Planning Products
ERPs featured on this post:
- Family of SAP ERPs
- SAP R/3
- SAP Business Suite
- SAP S/4HANA
- Oracle e-business suite
- Workday ERP
- Odoo
- ERPNext
- Openbravo ERP
The 1-Tier or most popular ones are SAP S/4HANA, Oracle and Dynamics 365. Among the open source, the most popular is Odoo, with a strong presence in SMEs.
Family of SAP ERPs
There is a family of SAP ERPs, all of them developed by German company SAP. They are all proprietary solutions.
ERPs within the familiy of SAP ERPs:
- SAP R/3
- SAP ERP
- SAP S/4HANA
SAP R/3
SAP R/3 was an ERP developed by German company SAP, currently discontinued.
Its name stands for real-time, 3-tier (presentation-backoffice-database) ERP.
It is proprietary.
It was introduced in the early 1990s.
Its sucessor was SAP ECC, that is included in SAP Business Suite.
SAP ERP
SAP ERP is a suite of applications.
It was introduced in the early 2000s.
SAP ERP components:
- SAP ECC
- Industry solutions (IS)
SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) is the central component of SAP ERP. Most of the times when people say SAP ERP they are actually referring to SAP ECC.
You can read this post about SAP ERP.
SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4 ERP developed by German company SAP.
Its predecessor was SAP Business Suite / SAP ERP.
It was introduced in 2015.
You can read this post about SAP S/4HANA.
Oracle ERP
Oracle e-business suite
Oracle e-business suite is proprietary software.
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Oracle NetSuite
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a cloud ERP developed by American company Microsoft.
Workday Enterprise Management Cloud
Workday
Odoo
Odoo is an ERP.
It is open core. There is a community edition that is FOSS, and an enterprise edition that is proprietary.
It is written in Python.
It counts with a strong community.
ERPNext
ERPNext is free and open source (FOSS) under a GPL v3.
It is written in Python.
It is oriented towards small businesses and freelancers.
Tryton
Tryton is written in Python.
It is FOSS under a GPL license.
Metafresh
Metafresh is aimed mainly to manufacturing and logistics-heavy industries.
It is written in Java.
It if a fork of ADempiere.
It is FOSS under a GPL license.
Apache OFBiz
Apache OFBiz is an ERP aimed for big companies.
It is maintained by the Apache Foundation.
It is FOSS under an Apache 2.0 License.
It is dev-oriented and allows deep customization.
Marble ERP
Marble ERP is developed by Moqui.
It is FOSS under an Apache 2.0 License.
Moqui Marble ERP code repository
Openbravo ERP
Openbravo ERP was an ERP developed by the Spansih company Openbravo.
It is FOSS, but it is no longer maintained.
It must not be confused with the newer Openbravo Commerce Cloud platform, that is proprietary and developed by the French company Orisha that acquired Openbravo.