Innovation in Openbravo & Product Roadmap - Ismael Ciordia

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Openbravo Get TogetherTechnology dayInnovation in Openbravo and Product Roadmap

Barcelona, 13th April 2008Speaker: Ismael Ciordia, Openbravo Chief Technology Officer


Recent achievements

Openbravo 2.40

Product vision

Tentative Roadmap for Openbravo 2.50

Agenda


Recent achievementsOpenbravo Get Together – Innovation in Openbravo & Product Roadmap

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

• Release 2.3x • Release 2.35

LinuxWorldAward

BossieAward

SourceForgeProject

of the Month

2007• Release 2.2x

200,000downloads

200,000downloads

300,000downloads

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

2008 • Release 2.40

500,000downloads!!!

• Openbravo POS 2.0



• Openbravo 2.40 release (alpha)

• New development practices in place– Open project documentation and planning (Community projects on wiki.openbravo.com)

– New development environment (ODE). Source code fully supported on Subversion

– Project branching. Iterative development

– QA processes. Release Management processes



• Growing community– Consolidated #1 at SourceForge.net

– Near to 600.000 downloads

– Increasing community contributions to core product

– Design of the next generation Forge

• Live demo improved (reliability and performance, many hundreds of daily logins)


…and a new sibling, Openbravo POS!Openbravo Get Together – Innovation in Openbravo & Product Roadmap

• Openbravo POS 2.0 launched in Jan 2008

• Openbravo POS 2.10 scheduled for May 2008


Lessons Learned

• Improved development practices • Improved release management

• Targeted roadmap• Leverage the community

Lessons LearnedOpenbravo Get Together – Innovation in Openbravo & Product Roadmap


Recent achievements

Openbravo 2.40

Product vision


Agenda


Openbravo 2.40 – Platform & Integration enhancementsOpenbravo Get Together – Innovation in Openbravo & Product Roadmap

• Improved Usability– Keyboard operation (demonstration)

– Selectors implemented with AJAX datagrid

– Improve UI visibility (feedback on status)


Openbravo 2.40 – Platform & Integration enhancementsOpenbravo Get Together – Innovation in Openbravo & Product Roadmap

• Integration with Business Intelligence Server

• Security and Performance review– Multi-client and multi-org operation fully enabled

– Security mechanisms completed: read only access, read only logic, …

– Audit info available on demand

• Heartbeat and Registration process

• Other: Enhancements on DBSourceManager, support for Postgres 8.3, new web services, improvements in the installer


Openbravo 2.40 – Functional EnhancementsOpenbravo Get Together – Innovation in Openbravo & Product Roadmap

• Procurement enhancements– Requisitions management

– Goods receipt by PO number

• New financial features– Multi-Schema completed

– Permanent accounting closing

– WithHolding

– Reports: Budget report, Payment aging balance, improvements in Payment Report

• Localization– International Bank account numbers

– PO import/export (translation)

• Other– Salary Category management

– Project & Services review


Recent achievements

Openbravo 2.40

Product vision


Agenda


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Recent achievements

Openbravo 2.40

Product vision


Agenda


An explanation on the Green projectOpenbravo Get Together – Innovation in Openbravo & Product Roadmap

• The objective of the Green project is to define the new architecture, prototype the new foundation and prepare a detailed plan to smoothly deploy this new architecture in Openbravo ERP

• Then the project will be merged in the R3.x release and managed as a standard subproject within the release.

• It will be deployed on Openbravo ERP starting from the lower layers.

The Green project has been delayed. It will be managed in a different way, based on a gradual deployment and a coexistence strategy

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Javascript

CSS

AJAX

Spring fram ework

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Openbravo 2.50 Release candidates – Effective technologyOpenbravo Get Together – Innovation in Openbravo & Product Roadmap

1. Modularity from a user perspective

2. Business events

3. Embed a Workflow engine

4. Improve Background Process Management

5. State transitions for documents and buttons

6. Add other patterns to the Application Dictionary (selector, reports, ...)

7. Operate Openbravo database objects from UI

Objective is to improve developer’s experience by providing an easy and effective way to customize Openbravo and to create modules


Openbravo 2.50 Release candidates – Superior User ExperienceOpenbravo Get Together – Innovation in Openbravo & Product Roadmap

1. Masters detail UI pattern. Editable data grid widget

2. Selector auto-complete

3. Improve grid operation (move columns, save layout)

4. Contextual menu

5. Simplified data drill-around

6. Tags

7. Favourites

8. Saved filters

Objective is to continue improving Openbravo User Experience with emphasis on agility and ease to use following Web 2.0 standards


Openbravo 2.50 Release candidates – FunctionalityOpenbravo Get Together – Innovation in Openbravo & Product Roadmap

1. Sales dashboard and Balanced scoredcards

2. Production accounting

3. Product attributes managed on Manufacturing

4. Warehouse picking

5. Unit of Measure enhancement

6. Manufacturing enhancement

7. Price including taxes

8. Bank transaction dowload (automatic Bank conciliation)

Objective is to increase functional coverage on core ERP modules while leveraging in the community for modular extensions


Openbravo 2.50 Release candidates – IntegrationOpenbravo Get Together – Innovation in Openbravo & Product Roadmap

1. Web Services from Application Dictionary Business Objects

2. Search engine integration

3. Integration with Google calendar

4. VOIP integration

5. Chat & Presence integration

6. Integration with ESB and ETL

Objective is to increase Openbravo functionality by creating a wide Interface of web services to integrate with other applications


Openbravo 2.50 Release candidates – GlobalizationOpenbravo Get Together – Innovation in Openbravo & Product Roadmap

1. Easy language installation

2. Enterprise model redesign

3. Unified string identifiers

4. Numbering of accounting entries

5. User time zone support

6. User level local information

Objective is to spread Openbravo usage by enhancing the Enterprise model and by improving localization capabilities


Thank you!

Openbravo Get Together

Innovation in Openbravo & Product Roadmap - Ismael Ciordia

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