ComPiere Intros Dashboard for Open Source ERP and CRM

January 30, 2006

Open-source provider ComPiere Inc. today released a management dashboard to add at-a-glance real-time performance indicators to its open-source business suite, ComPiere ERP & CRM.

ComPiere offers an open-source application incorporating CRM, ERP, accounting and supply chain management targeted at small and midsize companies. ComPiere makes ComPiere ER & CRM available free, but licenses partners to install and support the application.

The new dashboard taps into perforance indicators from the underlying application, presenting them in summary graphical form. The user can click to drill down for more details. Following is a sample graphic (not to scale) showing the user interface for the dashboard:

Dashboard metrics can be configured by the user and can include such factors as revenue by project or region, open invoices, shipments, call center inquiries, sales queues, and management-by-objectives data.

ComPiere promotes its product as scalable and suitable for businesses from $5 million to $500 million in revenue and for distribution and franchise networks that want to provide a unified solution for supply chain partners. ComPiere ERP & CRM is also offered through application service providers (ASPs) in hosted environments.

AB -- 1/30/06

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