- - Messages "for information": + Messages "for information": you can pull them when you need some specific information; they are not required to be read every day.You receive only what you decided to follow.This accounts for 90% of your daily emails.Use the "Inbox" menu for these.
- - Messages "for action": they + Messages "for action": they require your immediate attention and you need to process them all. This accounts for 10% of your daily emails. Use the "To: me" menu @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
- New Features Launched + New Features Launched
- - To add to an already comprehensive set of OpenERP - features, a website content management system (CMS - or WMS) has been developed and a beta release is - available from today, 31st January 2014. - + To add to an already comprehensive set of OpenERP + features, a website content management system (CMS + or WMS) has been developed and a beta release is + available from today, 31st January 2014.
- - "OpenERP's latest launch will allow a business to go from - zero to trading online quicker than ever before,” Stuart - Mackintosh, MD of Open Source specialist and OpenERP - integration partner, OpusVL, explains. “The investment - required to have a fully automated business system is - dramatically reduced, enabling the small and medium - enterprise to compete at a level of functionality and - performance previously reserved for the big IT investors." - + "OpenERP's latest launch will allow a business to go from + zero to trading online quicker than ever before,” Stuart + Mackintosh, MD of Open Source specialist and OpenERP + integration partner, OpusVL, explains. “The investment + required to have a fully automated business system is + dramatically reduced, enabling the small and medium + enterprise to compete at a level of functionality and + performance previously reserved for the big IT investors."
- - "Finally, the leading edge is being brought to the masses. - It will now be the turn of the big players to catch up to - the superior technologies of the SME." - + "Finally, the leading edge is being brought to the masses. + It will now be the turn of the big players to catch up to + the superior technologies of the SME."
- - "This is another clever and highly disruptive move by - OpenERP,which will force other technology providers to - take another look at the value they are providing to ensure - that their 'solutions' can still compete." - + "This is another clever and highly disruptive move by + OpenERP,which will force other technology providers to + take another look at the value they are providing to ensure + that their 'solutions' can still compete."
- - "OpenERP now competes on many fronts, with no real - competition out there to knock them off the top spot. - With the launch of their integrated CMS and Ecommerce - systems,it only elevates their position as one of the leading - lights in the open source revolution. It will be at least 5 - years before another ERP or CMS provider will be able to - compete at this level due to the technology currently - employed by most industry providers." - + "OpenERP now competes on many fronts, with no real + competition out there to knock them off the top spot. + With the launch of their integrated CMS and Ecommerce + systems,it only elevates their position as one of the leading + lights in the open source revolution. It will be at least 5 + years before another ERP or CMS provider will be able to + compete at this level due to the technology currently + employed by most industry providers."
-Adding to industry leading technology
+Adding to industry leading technology
Like many modern website editors, with OpenERP you can edit content in-line, enabling you to see exactly what you are @@ -227,7 +217,7 @@ integrated with many web tools and works across all devices by default.
-So, what does this mean to me and my business?
+So, what does this mean to me and my business?
The CMS removes the need for Magento integration for the shopping basket and Drupal/Joomla for the website. For any @@ -241,7 +231,7 @@ for larger sites, stringent process and project management disciplines are still required to ensure a low-risk project.
-How does it work in practice?
+How does it work in practice?
When items are placed in the basket, a sales order is created automatically to reflect the basket contents. @@ -263,7 +253,7 @@ on the OpenERP website here
-Created in just four months
+Created in just four months
OpenERP competently manages customer and product data, and has mature sales work-flow built in, so the addition of the @@ -303,9 +293,9 @@
I needed to change the world. I wanted to ... You know how it is when you are young; you have big dreams, a lot of energ and naïve stupidity. My dream was to lead the enterprise - management market with a fully open source software.(I also + management market with a fully open source software.(I also wanted to get 100 employees before 30 years old with a - self-financed company but I failed this one by a few months). + self-financed company but I failed this one by a few months).
@@ -336,9 +326,9 @@ To make things happen, I worked hard, very hard. I worked 13 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no vacations for 7 years.I lost friendships and broke up with my girlfriend in - the process (fortunately, I found a more valuable wife + the process (fortunately, I found a more valuable wife now. I will explain later why she is worth 1 million EUR - :). + :).Three years later, I discovered you can't change the world if you are "tiny". Especially if the United States is part @@ -362,7 +352,7 @@
It was time to do a pivot in the business model.
-The Pivot
+ The Pivot
We wanted to switch from a service company to a software
publisher company. This would allow to increase our efforts
@@ -404,7 +394,7 @@
me to recruit a rocking management team.
- Being a mature company
+ Being a mature company
Being a mature company
With this money in our bank account, we boosted two departments: R&D and Sales. We burned two million EUR in @@ -426,8 +416,8 @@ missed something. It's a strange feeling to build extraordinary things but to not be proud of ourselves.
- But one day, someone (I don't remember who, I have a - goldfish memory) made a graph of the monthly turnover + But one day, someone (I don't remember who, I have a + goldfish memory) made a graph of the monthly turnover of the past 2 years. It was like waking up from a nighmare. In fact,it was not that bad, we had multiplied by 10 the monthly turnover over the span of roughly two years! @@ -437,7 +427,7 @@
- OpenERP Monthly Turnover + OpenERP Monthly Turnover
As usual, I should have listened to my wife. She is way more lucid than I am. Every week I complained to her "it's @@ -448,7 +438,7 @@ us as the fastest growing company of Belgium with 1549% growth of the turnover between 2007 and 2011)
-Changing the world
+Changing the world
Then, the dream started to become reality. We started to get clues that what we did would change the world: @@ -466,9 +456,9 @@ compulsory subject for the baccalaureate in France like Word, Excel and Powerpoint