ERP5 and CPS form alliance to build a Global Information System

ERP5 and Collaborative Portal Server (CPS) Teams Form Alliance to Provide World
First Global Open Source Information System

   For Immediate Release

   2003/07/14  -  ERP5 and Collaborative Portal Server teams announced at
   the  Libre  Software  Meeting  (LSM)  international conference on Open
   Source  /  Free  Software  that  they would join forces to provide the
   world first global Information System exclusively based on Open Source
   /  Free  Software.  Collaborative  Portal  Server  (CPS)  is a content
   management  and  collaborative work system published under GPL license
   with   more   than  100  production  instances  implemented  in  large
   governmental  organisations  and  very large industrial organisations.
   ERP5  is the first Entreprise Resource Planning system published under
   GPL  license  with successful implementation in European industry. The
   Alliance  of  ERP5  and  CPS  will  provide corporations with seamless
   integration  of  collaborative  and  quantitative  information systems
   based on the Zope Open Source / Free Application Server.

   ERP5 allows to track quantitative information and implement management
   workflows.   ERP5  features  covers  trading,  invoicing,  accounting,
   manufacturing,  supply  chain,  stock,  customer  relation and product
   design.

   CPS  allows  a group of users to share documents in multiple versions,
   implement administrative and publication workflows and create a single
   point of access to corporate information and services.

   Expected  outcome  of  the ERP5/CPS Alliance will allow to share basic
   technology  building blocks: this includes common user authentication,
   distributed  data  synchronisation,  uniform  internationalisation and
   other innovative technologies. It will also provide a common access to
   ERP  workflow  tasks  from  CPS portal page and CPS administrative and
   publication tasks from ERP5.

   Stéfane  Fermigier,  CEO  of  Nuxeo  SARL, the company leading the CPS
   project,  says  "We are very proud to team up with the ERP5 crew. ERP5
   provides  a  very  fine and innovative solution which we intend to use
   internally  for  our  day  to day business needs. Integration with CPS
   will  be  eased  by  the  fact both ERP5 and CPS are based on the Zope
   application  server,  the  CMF  content  management  framework and the
   DCWorkflow workflow engine."

   Jean-Paul  Smets,  CEO of Nexedi SARL, leader of the ERP5 project adds
   "CPS  provides  world  class  document  management  with  an excellent
   versioning  engine.  Its  collaborative  tools  are well suited to the
   current   evolution   of   the   industry   toward  ODM  and  vertical
   disintegration.  Nexedi  will  use  CPS internally and offer it to its
   customers as a complement to ERP5 systems."

   Thierry  Brettnacher,  COO  of  Coramy,  a  leading  European  apparel
   manufacturer with production sites on 2 continents welcomes this move:
   "We  have  been  using  ERP5 at Coramy for 6 months with a database of
   more  than  80,000  records  and 800,000 lines. ERP5 is mainly used to
   share  manufacturing  and  source  chain supply information on all our
   sites.  Because  its use became ubiquitous, our users have been asking
   for  a similar system to manage all corporate documents. CPS will be a
   perfect complement to ERP5 to fill this need."

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  About Nuxeo

   Nuxeo  is  the European leader of services surrounding the open source
   platform Zope.

   Nuxeo  develops  and  markets  collaborative  web  content  management
   systems,  as  well as associated services such as training, consulting
   and  hosting.  Nuxeo's  customers  have  at  their  disposal  a highly
   competent team with high technical qualifications and who use the best
   of free software.

   Nuxeo  supports the open source software effort by publishing software
   components  under  a  free license (GPL) and by contributing as a core
   developer  to the development of the Zope platform. Nuxeo supports the
   action  of  the EuroLinux Alliance in favor of software innovation and
   free  software,  and against software patents, harmful for competition
   and innovation.

    Nuxeo on the Web

   Commercial web site: http://www.nuxeo.com/en
   Community web site : http://www.nuxeo.org
   CPS community: http://www.cps-project.org
   Nuxeo CPS: http://www.nuxeo.com/cps
   Email: contact@nuxeo.com
   Contact: Stéfane Fermigier (+33 6 63 04 12 77)

  About Nexedi: Next Generation EDI

   Nexedi  is a consulting and development services company helping small
   and  medium  organisations  to  choose open source / free software and
   fulfill  their IT application needs. Nexedi is the founder of the ERP5
   project,  a  Free  /  Open  Source  ERP  software  based on innovative
   technologies  (www.erp5.org).  Nexedi is the global coordinator of the
   OpenBrick  embedded  platform  (www.openbrick.org).  Nexedi  customers
   include  apparel  industry,  telecommunication  industry  and consumer
   electronics.

   Nexedi  supports  Open  Source  /  Free  Software effort by publishing
   software  components  and  knowledge  databases  under a Free Licenses
   (GPL,  GPDL).  Nexedi supports the action of the EuroLinux Alliance in
   favor  of  software innovation and free software, and against software
   patents, harmful for competition and innovation.

    Nexedi on the Web

   Commercial web site: http://www.nexedi.com
   Open R&D web site: http://www.nexedi.org
   ERP5 Community: http://www.erp5.org
   OpenBrick Community: http://www.openbrick.org
   Email: info@nexedi.com
   Contact: Jean-Paul Smets (+33 6 62 05 76 14)

  Legalese

   ERP5  is a trademark of Nexedi. Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server is a
   trademark  of  Nuxeo.  The other marks mentioned in this press release
   are the property of their respective owners.