Question 1: Please tell us about how do you use Apache OFBiz. Do you
Answer Choices | Percentage | No. Responses |
---|---|---|
install or implement OFBIz for other people's businesses? | 80% | 59 |
use OFBiz to run your own business? | 42% | 31 |
consult in the ERP space and evaluate or recommend OFBiz to clients? | 31% | 23 |
plan to look at evaluating OFBiz for your company's use? | 12% | 9 |
Other (please specify) | 0% | 0 |
Total Respondents: 74 |
Comments and Conclusions:
Only 76 people responded.I had expected the community response to be larger considering that the mailing lis has over 1000 registered users. (Some of these are duplicates as people use different profiles for dev and user lists).
Majority of respondents are OFBiz integrators or offer OFBiz consulting services so this appears to be the community base that is attracted to OFBiz.
Of the 9 respondents evaluating OFBiz for their company's use 6 of them were not integrators or consultants. This suggests that these 6 are in fact real end users.I suspect the end user community is a lot larger than this but perhaps they dont actively interface with the OFBiz community but rather with their OFBiz integrator or consultant.
The fact that there are so many OFBiz integrators and consultants means that there must be adequate business in the marketplace to support them.
Question 2: Which version of OFBiz do you use?
Answer Choices | Percentage | No. Responses |
---|---|---|
Trunk | 28% | 21 |
13.07 | 35% | 26 |
12.04 | 26% | 19 |
11.04 | 8% | 6 |
10.04 or earlier | 3% | 2 |
Total Respondents: 74 |
Comments and Conclusions:
Question 3: How did you install or implement Apache OFBiz?
Answer Choices | Percentage | No. Responses |
---|---|---|
yourself | 60% | 45 |
with an integrator | 0% | 0 |
someone else did it for you | 0% | 0 |
we are an integrator | 40% | 30 |
Total Respondents: 75 |
Comments and Conclusions
Question 4: Evaluate the following statements:
Answer Choices | Strongly Disagree | Agree | Neither Disagree nor Agree | Agree | Strongly Agree | Total Respondents |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Finding documentation to download and install OFBiz was easy | 3 | 15 | 8 | 37 | 10 | 73 |
Finding documentation about setting up and configuring OFBiz was easy | 3 | 23 | 17 | 25 | 5 | 73 |
Finding documentation about how to customise or develop with OFBiz was easy | 7 | 25 | 21 | 17 | 2 | 72 |
Finding documentation about what OFBiz does 'out of the box' was easy | 15 | 29 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 73 |
Responses as a percentage:
Answer Choices | Strongly Disagree | Agree | Neither Disagree nor Agree | Agree | Strongly Agree | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Finding documentation to download and install OFBiz was easy | 4% | 21% | 11% | 51% | 14% | 73 |
Finding documentation about setting up and configuring OFBiz was easy | 4% | 32% | 23% | 34% | 7% | 73 |
Finding documentation about how to customise or develop with OFBiz was easy | 10% | 35% | 29% | 24% | 3% | 72 |
Finding documentation about what OFBiz does 'out of the box' was easy | 21% | 40% | 27% | 10% | 3% | 73 |
Comments and Conclusions
Question 5: How long have you been using Apache OFBiz?
Answer Choices | Percentage | No. Responses |
---|---|---|
Less than 12 months | 9% | 7 |
1-2 years | 31% | 23 |
2-5 years | 19% | 14 |
Over 5 years | 39% | 29 |
Not applicable as only evaluating OFBiz | 1% | 1 |
Total Respondents: 74 |
Comments and Conclusions
Question 6: How many Apache OFBiz users do you have?
Answer Choices | Percentage | No. Responses |
---|---|---|
1-2 | 25% | 18 |
3-5 | 10% | 7 |
5-10 | 18% | 13 |
10 or more | 47% | 34 |
Total Respondents: 72 |
Comments and Conclusions
Question 7: How often do you use or search for information in the Apache OFBiz Wiki?
Answer Choices | Percentage | No. Responses |
---|---|---|
Never | 3% | 2 |
Rarely (less than once a month) | 36% | 27 |
Sometimes (less than once a week) | 35% | 26 |
Often (once a week or more) | 27% | 20 |
Total Respondents: 75 |
Comments and Conclusions
Question 8: How often do you search the Mailing Lists for information about how Apache OFBiz works?
Answer Choices | Percentage | No. Responses |
---|---|---|
Never | 3% | 2 |
Rarely (less than once a month) | 20% | 15 |
Sometimes (less than once a week) | 31% | 23 |
Often (once a week or more) | 47% | 35 |
Total Respondents: 75 |
Comments and Conclusions
Question 9: Evaluate the following statements
Answer Choices | Strongly Disagree | Agree | Neither Disagree nor Agree | Agree | Strongly Agree | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I think the Technical Documentation is the highest priority | 2 | 5 | 19 | 22 | 19 | 67 |
I think the End User Documentation is the highest priority | 2 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 29 | 69 |
I think both Technical and End User Documentation are important | 3 | 1 | 10 | 27 | 31 | 72 |
as a percentage
Answer Choices | Strongly Disagree | Agree | Neither Disagree nor Agree | Agree | Strongly Agree | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I think the Technical Documentation is the highest priority | 3% | 7% | 28% | 33% | 28% | 67 |
I think the End User Documentation is the highest priority | 3% | 7% | 23% | 25% | 42% | 69 |
I think both Technical and End User Documentation are important | 4% | 1% | 14% | 38% | 43% | 72 |
Comments and Conclusions
Question 10: Describe your involvement with the Apache OFBiz project and community
Answer Choices | Percentage | No. Responses |
---|---|---|
I am already officially involved | 21% | 16 |
I would like to get more involved | 28% | 21 |
I respond to question in the community mailing lists | 8% | 6 |
I ask questions or read the community mailing lists | 40% | 30 |
What community ? | 3% | 2 |
Total Respondents: 75 |
Comments and Conclusions
Additional Statistics
Some additional details have been captured about the region and the country where respondents were based. The highest number of respondents were from Asia followed by Europe and America.
Country breakdown of where respondents are based.
Country | No. Responses |
---|---|
Netherlands | 2 |
India | 23 |
UK | 2 |
Germany | 1 |
Chile | 1 |
Pakistan | 2 |
US | 14 |
Canada | 2 |
Italy | 3 |
France | 12 |
Ireland | 2 |
China | 2 |
South Africa | 1 |
Singapore | 1 |
Vietnam | 2 |
Thailand | 2 |
Afghanistan | 1 |
Kuwait | 1 |
Malaysia | 1 |
Luxembourg | 1 |