ADempiere
Links:
- ADempiere - Wikipedia
- ADempiere ERP and CRM Booklet 2013-04 v2.pdf - Booklet (PDF, 806K)
- http://www.adempiere.com/ADempiere_ERP - Project wiki/homepage
Preliminary evaluation
- ERP system might mean that there's a lot of complexity and integration in the application, making modifications harder.
- Strongly centered around ERP.
Comments
Josh Berkus: basically a more enterprise, complex version of PostBooks or LedgerSMB. Likely to be impenetrably difficult to customize.
Evaluation
Evaluation of Reporting UseCases
- Trial Balance Report: FIXME
- Bank Reconciliation Report: FIXME
- Chart of Accounts: FIXME
- Cash Disbursements Journal: FIXME
- Income Report: FIXME
- Expense Report: FIXME
Evaluation of Reporting UseCases for Fund Accounting
Can each of these reports be generated, confined to a specific temporarily restricted asset type?
- Trial Balance Report: FIXME
- Bank Reconciliation Report: FIXME
- Chart of Accounts: FIXME
- Cash Disbursements Journal: FIXME
- Income Report: FIXME
- Expense Report: FIXME
Evaluation of Fund Accounting UseCases
Collaborating evaluation
- Simultaneous Editing of Ledger: FIXME
- FIXME: Other uses cases need rewrite.
Evaluation of Double-entry Accounting UseCases
- Does the system implement pure double-entry accounting?
Evaluation of TrackingDocumentation UseCases
Does the system link up to external documentation?
Does it have a the ability to explore transactions via documentation linkage?
Evaluation of Handling multiple currencies UseCases
- Does it support the concept of a single functional currency, while still permitting multi-currency entries?
Evaluation of draft transaction UseCases
- Does the system allow generally for draft transactions that can be later approved before officially being posted to the books?
Evaluation of WorkFlow UseCases
- Is a specific workflow dictated by the system ?
- Is a the workflow configurable ?
- Unaccrued Invoice ?
Evaluation of the Reading and Reporting API
FIXME: This is assessment of what the API for manipulating the accounting data does, so I think it's tough to do it as a list of questions.
Evaluation of the Storage API
FIXME: This is assessment of what the API for storing the accounting data does, so I think it's tough to do it as a list of questions.
Evaluation of the Community Health
- Is the license both determined as Free Software by FSF and OSI-approved?
- Is the ?license GPL-compatible?
- Does the project require assignment of copyright or a CLA to get code upstreamed?
- How many
?active developers/companies contribute to the project?
- If there aren't many, how hard would it be to take over the project if needed?
- Is there good developer documentation?
- How easy it to engage as a developer with the community? Their current site is very hard to navigate, cluttered with information.