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-Here's a summary of its main features and benefits:
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- 100% WEB based -
- available for any touchscreen device (ipod, ipad, any tablet)mobile (with portable devices) -
- no installation required -
- no synchronization needed, completely integrated -
- continue working even when your connection is down or if you close your browser, data won't be lost -
- fully web based with a clean interface smart interface -
You have different options to select your products. You can do it through the -barcode reader, just browse through the categories you have put in place (ie. -drinks, snacks, meals, etc.), or text search in case neither of the other -options work for you. For example, if you need to use the POS for your restaurant, -your employees can record multiple tickets at the same time without having to wait -to process one transaction at a time. In addition, you can facilitate payments, -the application allows multiple payment methods.
-The POS application is so simple and accessible to use that your shop or -restaurant will never need any other tool to manage orders. Due to its smart -and user-friendly interface you don't need any training to learn how to use it. -Think of it as an out-of-the-box solution to boost your business' productivity. -
-]]> +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 energy + and naïve stupidity. My dream was to lead the enterprise + 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). +
+To fuel my motivation, I had to pick someone to fight + against. In business, it's like a playground. When you arrive in + a new school, if you want to quickly become the leader, you must + choose the class bully, the older guy who terrorises small boys, + and kick his butt in front of everyone. That was my strategy + with SAP, the enterprise software giant.
+So, in 2005, I started to develop the TinyERP product, the + software that (at least in my mind) would change the enterprise + world. While preparing for the "day of the fight" in 2006, I + bought the SorrySAP.com domain name. I put it on hold for 6 + years, waiting for the right moment to use it. I thought it + would take 3 years to deprecate a 77 billion dollars company + just because open source is so cool. Sometimes it's better for + your self-motivation not to face reality...
+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 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 of + this world, where it's better to be a BigERP, rather than a + TinyERP. Can you imagine how small you feel in front of Danone's + directors asking; "but why should we pay millions of dollars + for a tiny software?" So, we renamed TinyERP to OpenERP.
+As we worked hard, things started to evolve. We were + developing dozens of modules for OpenERP, the open source + community was growing and I was even able to pay all employees' + salaries at the end of the month without fear (which was a + situation I struggled with for 4 years).
+In 2010, we had a 100+ employees company selling services on + OpenERP and a powerful but ugly product. This is what happens + when delivering services to customers distracts you from + building an exceptional product.
+It was time to do a pivot in the business model.
+The Pivot
+We wanted to switch from a service company to a software + publisher company. This would allow to increase our efforts in + our research and development activities. As a result, we + changed our business model and decided to stop our services to + customers and focus on building a strong partner network and + maintenance offer. This would cost money, so I had to raise a + few million euros.
+After a few months of pitching investors, I got roughly 10 + LOI from different VCs. We chosed Sofinnova Partners, the + biggest European VC, and Xavier Niel the founder of Iliad, the + only company in France funded in the past 10 years to have + reached the 1 billion euro valuation.
+I signed the LOI. I didn't realize that this contract could + have turned me into a homeless person. (I already had a dog, + all I needed was to lose a lot of money to become homeless). + The fund raising was based on a company valuation but there + was a financial mechanism to re-evaluate the company up by + 9.8 m€ depending on the turnover of the next 4 years. I should + have received warrants convertible into shares if we achieved + the turnover targeted in the business plan.
+The night before receiving the warrants in front of the + notary, my wife checked the contracts. She asked me what would + be the taxation on these warrants. I rang the lawyer and guess + what? Belgium is probably the only country in the world where + you have to pay taxes on warrants when you receive them, even + if you never reach the conditions to convert them into shares. + If I had accepted these warrants, I would have had to pay a + 12.5% tax on 9.8 m€; resulting in a tax of 1.2m€ to pay in 18 + months! So, my wife is worth 1.2 million EUR. I would have + ended up a homeless person without her, as I still did not + have a salary at that time.
+We changed the deal and I got the 3 million EUR. It allowed + me to recruit a rocking management team.
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+ Being a mature company
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With this money in our bank account, we boosted two + departments: R&D and Sales. We burned two million EUR in 18 months, + mostly in salaries. The company started to grow even faster. + We developed a partner network of 500 partners in 100 countries + and we started to sign contracts with 6 zeros.
+Then, things became different. You know, tedious things like + handling human resources, board meetings, dealing with big + customer contracts, traveling to launch international + subsidiaries. We did boring stuff like budgets, career paths, + management meetings, etc.
+2011 was a complex year. We did not meet our expectations: + we only achieved 70% of the forecasted sales budget. Our + management meetings were tense. We under performed. We were not + satisfied with ourselves. We had a constant feeling that we + 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 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! This is when we understood + that OpenERP is a marathon, not a sprint. Only 100% growth a + year is ok... if you can keep the rhythm for several years.
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+ + 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 not good + enough, we should grow faster, what am I missing?" and she used + to reply; "But you already are the fastest growing company in + Belgium!". (Deloitte awarded us as the fastest growing company + of Belgium with 1549% growth of the turnover between 2007 and + 2011)
+Changing the world
+Then, the dream started to become reality. We started to get + clues that what we did would change the world:
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- With 1.000 installations per day, we became the most + installed management software in the world, +
- Analysts from Big 4 started to prefer OpenERP over SAP, +
- OpenERP is now a compulsory subject for the + baccalaureate in France like Word, Excel and Powerpoint +
- 60 new modules are released every month (we became the + wikipedia of the management software thanks to our strong + community) +
Something is happening... And it's big!
+OpenERP 7.0 is about to be released and I know you will be + astonished by it.
+The official release is planned for the 21th of December. + As the Mayas predicted it, this is the end of an age, the old + ERP dinosaurs.
+It's time to pull out the Ace: the SorrySAP.com domain name + that I bought 6 years ago.
+If you want to test the v7 version online, just go the homepage.
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