Author: Satyamitra Maan Functional Training Day 1 Ubuntu installation ( Practical ) Introduction to ERP and OpenERP OpenERP installation Guided Tour initial About addons and exaddons What is an ERP? One database for all the company One views per company department All company process integrated Automatic notification Automatic communication between department Automatic actions historic Existing ERP Other are Cegid- Compire ERP5 Open Bravo Dolibar & Open ERP What is Open Source Open Source usage: No license fee Free source code Free to distribute Free to modify Large community Pool of developers Easy support Open Source business models: Cant charge for license Cant sell with another name You can only provide services like: Installation Settings Formations Maintenance Facts about open source technologies 85 % of enterprises use open source (Nov 2008) NASA use python, which is an open source language Microsoft also going the open source way . Open ERP is based on python and XML Framework and using Open object In US 85 % of education is imparted through Moodel which is also open source . Why Open ERP ? An all in one solution! ERP Comparison About Open ERP In 2008 it was named Open ERP (before was Tiny ERP since 2002) Open source Huge Community More than 400modules Adaptable for Big & Small companies, Factories, Web sellers Adaptable for every type of Companies Experts state Open ERP having 2 years of competitive advantage on market as enterprise management can never be such simpler and powerful as with Open ERP . Open ERP is a modern approach to integrate business and management One software package covers all your enterprise needs (Department functionalities) Accounting & Financial Mgt Manufacturing resource planning Inventory control Document Management System SMS and Mass mailing services No double encoding of information Automates tasks by integrating business processes Automate all administrative tasks User-friendly web and rich interface Evolution as needed with the huge modules list What offer really Open ERP! (1) Business management Sales MRP Get The Information When you need it, where you need it Integrated Business Intelligence Dynamic dashboards Consolidation of data in real time Custom report designer Statistics available from any document What offer really Open ERP! (2) But you think ERPs are risky to integrate Not Open ERP ! You can start with one module for a specific need. No licence cost for you. Light Fast Easy to set Easy to use Start playing with our demo data and be ready to work! Salary trends in the World 0-2 Years 2-5 Years 5-10 Years > 10 Years Developer 25-30 K 30-35 K 35-40 K 40-50 K Network engineer 20-24 K 23-28 K 28-33 K NC Security Engineer 28-32 K 33-40 K 40-45 K 45-55 K Network and telecom manager NC 38-45 K 45-55 K 55-70 K Security Manager NC NC 50-55 K 60-70 K ERP Consultant 30-35 K 35-40 K 40-50 K 50-65 K ERP Project Manager NC 35-40 K 45-55 K 60-70 K Project Manager NC NC 50-60 K 60-80 K Your career graph You begin as a trainee You have these ways to go Functional consultant Technical consultant Both ( with Open ERP only ) Senior Open ERP consultant Open ERP Department Junior Manager Open ERP Department Senior Manager And who knows Sky is the limit in Open ERP you can mould whatever and where ever you want to . Your actual IT structure ?? Annual Maintenance: 45.000 $ Annual Licenses: 39.000 $ After implementation of Open ERP, this is your new IT structure!! A fully integrated management system: Annual Maintenance: 10.000 $ Annual Licenses: 0 $ OPEN ERP INSTALLATION OpenERP is quiet easy to install in windows you just need to install OpenERP all in one .exe and its done . Here we will cover OpenERP installation on UBUNTU Installing database and creating User With OpenERP we use PostgreSql database we need to install the database. On Ubuntu, install the postgresql package: sudo apt-get install postgresql Add a user The default superuser for PostgreSQL is called postgres. If you wish to use it as well, you may need to login as this user first. smaan$ sudo su postgres password: XXXXXXXXXX postgres$ createuser --createdb --username postgres --no-createrole pwprompt smaan Enter password for new role: XXXXXXXXXX Enter it again: XXXXXXXXXX Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) y CREATE ROLE postgres$ OpenERP dependencies installation Server dependencies sudo apt-get install python python-psycopg2 python-reportlab \ python-egenix-mxdatetime python-tz python-pychart \ python- pydot python-lxml python-vobject Client dependencies sudo apt-get install python python-gtk2 python-glade2 \ python-matplotlib python-egenix-mxdatetime python-xml python-hippocanvas Web client dependencies $ sudo apt-get install python python-dev build-essential $ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools There are few more dependencies of webclient will be installed through ./populate.sh under openerp-web../lib/ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree Downloading and Starting You can download OpenERP client , OpenERP-web,OpenERP server fromwww.openerp.com/downloads Unzip the files put them under workspace folder you created. Starting the Server: $ cd OpenERP-server-verson/bin $ ./openerp-server-verson.py Starting the web server $ cd OpenERP-web-server-verson/lib $./populate.sh cd .. ./openerp-client-web-verson.py Starting the client $ cd OpenERP-client-verson/bin $ ./openERP- client-verson.py Congratulation thats all fox Welcome to OpenERP world Guided tour(1) Starting to discover Open ERP, using demonstration data supplied with the system, is a good way to familiarize yourself with the user interface. This guided tour provides you with an introduction to many of the available system features. We are going to cover the following with demo data New Database Creation Installing pre defined profiles Configuring the profiles Guided tour(2) Preference Toolbar functionalities Internal communication through OpenERP. Configuring users Managing partners Installing new functionality Updating the module list Installing independent modules Installing a module with its dependencies Uninstalling the new functionality Uninstalling the independent modules Uninstalling the modules with dependencies To know more about Open ERP Contact us Address : D 88/2 , Okhla Phase-1 New Delhi satyamitra.maan@enova-tech.net Ph :- (+91)99.90.53.94.14 (+91)11.45.75.91.17 E-nova Technologies Pvt. Ltd. www.enova-tech.net