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ERPAL 3 A first preview
What will happen next and why.
Let me introduce
Manuel Pistner
Founder and CEO Bright Solutions
Drupal since 2007
Focusing on Business-Applications with Drupal and native mobile
apps
@manuelpistner (myself)
@tweetsBS
(Bright Solutions)
@erpal_info
(ERPAL)
ManuelBS
(Drupal.org)
ERPAL ?
Who knows?
Who installed?
http://kateswaffer.com/2014/01/11/who-knows/
What is ERPAL today
Drupal based
Business app
Specific
Drupal based business application
for small and mid sized companies
for people that love to work in a well organized way.
Drupal distribution with a specific use-case.
What is ERPAL today
CRM
Project Management
Invoicing
Employees
Documents
Files
Calendar
Reporting
Automation
Complex System
Lots of functionality
Many modules
Heavy features to support business of service providing companies and software development shops
Where we focused
Drupal for complex web - applications
Want to show the power of Drupal even to non Drupal users.
With ERPAL proof Drupal not ONLY a CMS
BUT
A full featured application framework to build complex applications
Where we focused
Business application as Drupal-Distribution
Drupal solution for real business needs
For many users it is exactlywhat they where looking for!
Even user that dont know drupal that just want to use it.
Where we focused
Service providing companies
Software companies
Service providers
Exactly the same that we have right now but better integrated with entities
Contact
Activity
relationship
Why Commerce?
Entity based commerce framework
providing basic core entities for commerce stuff
easy to integrate with CRM core
easy extendible, flexible and integrates with drupal very well.
Entity
Integration
Connect community, contentn, commerce
Why contrib?
Building the application base
for data structure and data selection
for connecting data with business logic
for integration of data and applications
for layouting and UI customization
For all application layers already modules
Data
Query
Business logic
And what to do?
Help to make the existing better
Extend and reuse
Help to get contrib done for business use cases
Extend the existing
Develop extending modules to
support offers in commerce (as order bundle)
support full featured invoices in commerce (as order bundle)
replace billables with a line item bundle (invoice line item)
And what to do?
Extend contrib to
add some missing modules for dependend data operation (like dfv module)
create a reusable theme as base for business applications
Separate the ERPAL plattform from ERPAL use-cases
The components
Clear separation
Decouple relationships between modules
Clear separation and remove most relationships and dependencies of modulesd
ERPAL Core modules
ERPAL Plattform
ERPAL Use cases (Features / Apps)
What is ERPAL Core
Budget entity for planning
Output entity for meassuring results
Provide basic functionality to plan and messure business goals
provide a budget and a output entity
Plan results and meassure output
make business progress reportable (unsing Drupal native functionality)
What is ERPAL Core
Aggregate data
From existing Drupal-Apps
From external Apps
Using Rules
Provide basic functionality to plan and messure business goals
provide a budget and a output entity
Plan results and meassure output
make business progress reportable (unsing Drupal native functionality)
What is ERPAL Core
Let others connect their data
use ERPAL core as a business-data-hub
using reporting functionality
reusing existing application
make data transparent
Whats the benfit
User ERPAL in your existing Drupal applications
Connect ERPAL with other external applications
Customize ERPAL with only standard Drupal knowledge
Whats the benefit
And for Drupal?
continue to develop as application framework (not only CMS)
give Drupal another use case to show its power
continue to spread open source in the business world
lots of contrib work
Whats the benefit
And for Drupal again?
extend functionality of existing frameworks
connecting content, e-commerce, social and business functionality
When will it be available
Dev snapshot to contribute on 2 month
Release ???
Questions
I would love to answer any of them ;-)