Apache OFBiz at ApacheCon US 2009

Project Management Committee: See Apache OFBiz PMC Members and Committers

Subprojects covered by Track: None

PMC Liason/Spokesorganizer(s): David E. Jones

Planning Team Mentor & Liason: William A. Rowe, Jr.

Track Description

A series of presentations covering effective use of Apache Open For Business (OFBiz) and effective collaboration with other people who use Apache OFBiz. Topics covered will include testing, sales, management, and analysis and design.

Target Audience

Anyone interested in using or contributing to a Apache OFBiz. Some presentations will be more of more interest to those who want technical details while most will be targeted at people with business interest including sales, management, and effective collaboration with others who use and contribute to OFBiz.

Proposed Schedule

09:00 - 10:00
REGISTRATION
10:00 - 10:50
Session 1: Getting Started with Apache OFBiz in 5 Easy Steps
10:50 - 11:15
BREAK
11:15 - 12:05
Session 2: Collaboration on Requirements and Designs for Apache OFBiz
12:05 - 13:30
LUNCH
13:30 - 14:20
KEYNOTE
14:30 - 15:20
Session 3: Selling Open Source E-commerce and ERP
15:20 - 16:00
BREAK
16:00 - 16:50
Session 4: Functional Testing OFBiz Applications with Selenium XML
17:00 - 17:50
Session 5: TBD
18:00
END OF PROGRAM

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Proposed Sessions

Session Title: Getting Started with Apache OFBiz in 5 Easy Steps

Session Code: TBD

Speaker: Ruth Hoffman

Session Description: Apache OFBiz brings Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to the masses with a no cost, Open Source, Enterprise ready suite of business automation applications. Built on best-of-breed technology, the database agnostic OFBiz ERP platform makes cost effective, reliable and secure business automation a reality. No longer are ERP systems beyond the reach of the small and medium sized business owner. In this session - Getting Started with OFBiz in 5 Easy Steps - we shall discuss getting OFBiz up and running quickly to maximize return on investment and minimize upfront costs. Using a real life example we shall demonstrate that it is possible for any sized organization to build a sound business using the Apache OFBiz Open Source ERP platform.

Target Audience: New Users, "Tire Kickers", Potential Users who don't know where to start with OFBiz.

Session Title: Selling Open Source E-commerce and ERP

Session Code: TBD

Speaker: Mike Bates of HotWax Media

Session Description: As open source becomes more mainstream, the pool of potential open source e-commerce and ERP clients continues to grow. In this presentation Mike Bates, CEO of HotWax Media, discusses the act of including open source in the sales process with different target audiences; what works, what doesn't, the anatomy of a success story, and perhaps a catastrophic failure or two.

Target Audience: Direct (external) sales teams as well as those working in internal positions who have a goal of encouraging open source adoption within their organization.

Session Title: Functional Testing OFBiz Applications with Selenium XML

Session Code: TBD

Speaker: Brett Palmer of Automation Groups

Session Description: Functional testing for ERP applications like those in OFBiz can be very laborious and time consuming. In this presentation, Brett explains how OFBiz users can create effective functional tests for their applications using a framework called Selenium XML Selenium XML is an extension of Selenium (http://seleniumhq.org) and allows a user to create and run functional tests in a simple XML format. The framework supports multiple browsers and provides functional and visual verification of a real user experience. This presentation will cover recording tests and converting them to Selenium XML, parameterizing those tests, combining functional and system level tests, and automating test running. Brett will also be presenting on future directions such as converting test cases to functional document, auto-generating test cases based on OFBiz artifacts, and adding scripting support and AJAX libraries to Selenium XML.

Target Audience: The session is intended for all users of OFBiz including developers, testers, and users. A knowledge of
XML is the only prerequisite for learning how to create test cases in Selenium XML.

Session Title: Collaboration on Requirements and Designs for Apache OFBiz

Session Code: TBD

Speaker: David E. Jones

Session Description: To date most of the collaboration in the OFBiz project has been on implementation. What to implement and how is frequently discussed, but there have been very few efforts to produce artifacts that represent requirements that can drive designs, and designs that can drive implementation. In this presentation David will offer an overview of UBPL, the HEMP artifacts it is based on, designs based on parts of UBPL and applications being developed based on those, and overlap analysis between UBPL and what exists in OFBiz. With these tools business people can directly participate in the project and developers can more effectively communicate and understand the context in which they are working. The result of these efforts will be software in the project that more directly meets the needs of a variety of end-users.

Target Audience: Anyone who cares about what is developed in OFBiz, regardless of preference to collaborate on requirements, designs, or implementation.

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