The OFBiz track at the Apachecon NA 2015 event in Austin, Texas, USA involved all aspects of OFBiz including business and development, with speakers from the US and Europe and Asia. Summary abstracts of the presentations were as follows:
Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems.
This talk will provide an introduction to OFBiz, its history and its community.
It will also summarize the main areas of recent developments, where the project stands today and where it is going.
We have done several installations of Apache OFBiz in large companies that have revenues of $300M+ . This presentation will show why these companies selected OFBiz and how the system was implemented using BPM, agile project management and involved the practice of continuous improvement and deployment.
OFBiz is an eCommerce and general purpose ERP platform that provides a solid foundation for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solution; OFBiz is backed by a solid framework and robust set of tools under the hood, which makes extending the platform to specialty industries a breeze. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing is arguably the most regulated industry around and easily qualifies as a specialty industry as it is mandatory to comply with the regulatory requirements from a number of federal agencies. The three biggest challenges facing Pharmaceutical Manufacturing include:
In this presentation, we will walk you through the OOTB features, platform extensibility and tool-sets that are available under the hood that makes implementing the complex regulatory requirements easy to achieve
In the race to develop the next big innovation in mobile applications the focus is often hot new technologies like distributed data stores or "platform as a service". Critical business components like inventory management, accounting and order fulfillment may not be addressed until far too late in the game. OFBiz is not a new technology but it provides a set of business components that few systems can match. In this talk we will see how OFBiz can be used to provide RESTful business services to JavaScript single page applications using hot web technologies like RequireJS and Backbone. We'll talk about the relationship between these kinds of interfaces and the current OFBiz page rendering technologies and open the floor for a spirited discussion of where they could take OFBiz in the future.
Development of ofbiz-based projects has, in the past, been limited to what could be installed easily from a quick source code checkout. In ofbiz, the default configuration attempts to use java to provide all resources, apis, and automata one would need. This makes getting up and running quickly, but a production deployment is seldom done this way.
In a production environment, there will generally be many different pieces of software configured to run as a single unit. Sometimes, multiple machines will even be utilized. However, it has been hard to represent such an environment for a developer to use; that is, until the introduction of docker. With docker, it becomes easy to spin up small virtualized instances of linux, which then allows for the exact same production software to be installed and used by developers in the field.
Get a jump-start on your next Apache OFBiz project. Learn from an experienced OFBiz contributor how to avoid some common mistakes. Not just for beginners, this presentation draws from more than 10 years of OFBiz experience, looking at time-tested solutions that work! Topics include:
# | Who | From Where | Title | Target Audience | Presentation |
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1 | Jacopo Capellato | Italy | State of Apache OFBiz | All | ApacheconNA2015-final.pdf |
2 | Hans Bakker | Thailand | Why Large Companies Use Apache OFBiz ERP | Business | apachecon.pdf |
3 | Sakthi Vellingiri | US | Can OFBiz Stand the Stringent Regulatory Requirements of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing? | Business | CanOFBizStandStringentRequirementsOfPharmaManufacturing.pdf |
4 | Ean Schuessler | US | Building Mobile Business Applications with Apache OFBiz | Developer / Technical | mobile_web.pdf |
5 | Adam Heath | US | Using Docker for Development of Production Systems based on OFBiz | Developer / Technical | 2015-ofbiz-docker-development.pdf |
6 | Adrian Crum | US | How to Avoid Common Mistakes in OFBiz Development | Developer | 2015_ApacheCon_Reduced.pdf |
7 | Jacopo Capellato | Italy | Round Table Discussion Q&A Session | All | N/A |