A fully Open Source Enterprise Stack For Current Business Environment

What if your experience of open source weren't limited to handful of the popular open source offerings like Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla? What if there are alternatives to the likes of salesforce, Infusionsoft, Microsoft Dynamics for CRM offerings? Last year it was interesting to see how the community driven software had pretty much surpassed proprietary content management vendors, from pure flexibility, innovation, security and speed of change which is a must in the web environment. Could this happen in other areas like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Intelligence (BI), Document Management, Telephony, Intranet? A bigger question is can this be done as pure open source, unlike commercial open source vendors like Magento, that charge upwards of $11,000 for much needed functions, while providing free open source as a bait?

I am excited to inform you of a complete open source stack that can run an entire business using pure open source. This includes everything from your point of sale (POS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Telephony, Unified login (LDAP), Business Intelligence (BI), Intranet and Document Management with one central database for all the essential common data.  This is what Adaxa does, and I am pleased to be part of the Adaxa team committed to enabling pure open source solutions for businesses.

When it comes to a complete open stack for your enterprise, it is not much different than how Drupal does everything for your web needs.  It does this at a fraction of the cost of proprietary software solutions that charge expensive upfront license costs and ultimately lock-in businesses with the threat of ever-rising maintenance costs. 

In today's difficult economic climate, enterprises are being forced to find alternative IT solutions that are just as good, if not better, than more traditional solutions (like SAP, Sage, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, Infusionsoft,etc), but cost much less. Commercial lock-in from proprietary vendors leads to high up-front fees and yearly maintenance and support costs that only continue to increase. Companies that embrace pure open source are better able to maintain their systems during the current economic downturn, keep essential projects alive, and pursue innovations that give them a competitive advantage when present conditions improve.

I will be at CeBIT Australia register here for May 24^th through 26^th, 2010 in Sydney. If you would like to stop by, here is a free coupon code ADAXCA10, that will save you the $99 entrance fees.  You can find us at Booth K11 in the Business Process area. I look forward to meeting you in there, if you stop by.  

Martin Fuggle is CEO of Adaxa - a provider of pure open source erp services. He believes the days of predatory pricing practices by large software companies are on the way out. In today's economic climate, he believes that well informed businesses will embrace pure open source applications that are as advanced, reliable, and, in many cases, better at a fraction of the cost of proprietary alternatives.