ERP5 Open Source ERP Project beats SAP and Navision in Professional Magazine Award

  ERP5 Awarded Best ERP Implementation by Decision Informatique   
  Professional Magazine

  Professional panel recognizes the excellence of Coramy implementation
  of ERP5 and Nexedi technology
  
  Lille, 06/21/2004 - Immediate Publication

  Coramy, a European leader of apparel industry and first user of ERP5,
  was awarded best ERP implementation project in the special edition
  of Décision Informatique on June, 21st, 2004. A panel of 40
  corporate managers, researchers and journalists voted this award. They
  recognize the excellence of ERP5 implementation as Open Source / Libre
  Software in a highly mission critical manufacturing environment.
  ERP5 is an Enterprise Resource Planning Solution published under
  Open Source / Libre Licenses. ERP5 main features include customer
  relation management (CRM), production management (MRP), supply chain
  management (SCM), product design management (PDM), accounting, human
  resources and e-commerce.

  For Thierry Brettnacher, COO of Coramy, "this award recognizes our
  vast corporate investment in the development of Open Source
  technologies for mission critical enterprise computing. ERP5 provides
  us unparalleled flexibility. Our choice of Libre Software development
  model has led us to design a generic architecture which can now be
  implemented in other companies and organisations."

  Jean-Paul Smets, CEO of Nexedi SARL and leader of the ERP5 project
  adds "ERP5 was designed from the ground up as a Web application based
  on Zope transactional workflow application server and a cluster
  architecture. ERP5 introduces major innovations in the design of ERP
  systems with a document oriented *Unified Business Model* (UBM)
  approach. ERP5 innovative design allows to model with the exact same
  concepts human resources as well as production planning or accounting.
  ERP5 unified design drastically reduces the implementation costs of an
  ERP solution. We consider the award of Décision Informatique as a
  recognition of the excellence of ERP5 technical foundation."

  Members of the panel who elected ERP5 explain their choice. Jacques
  Eltaber, director of the Test Group laboratory: "this application is
  exemplary both for the ambition of the ERP5 project which is based on
  Linux and for the courage of Coramy management which has trusted
  Nexedi for the implementation." Gérard Boulon, CIO of PSG: "the
  enterprise application could fit to the client needs for a cheaper
  budget than initially planned and is going to evolve based on
  community contributions." Alexandre Zapolsky, CEO of Linagora: "The
  Coramy case shows how to leverage open source software the right way".

  Stéfane Fermigier, CEO of Nuxeo, points out "Nuxeo has adopted ERP5
  for its commercial offering in order to provide a complete solution
  for both content management, collaborative work and for the management
  of quantitative data. Combined with Nuxeo CPS , ERP5 can be used to
  manage a budget process, taking into account roles, security,
  reporting and project management. ERP5 and CPS have become the most
  complete development environment for e-government."

  Jean-Paul Smets concludes: "ERP5 is already a great ERP solution for
  medium and large organisations with complex management processes.
  Nexedi will soon publish a simplified version of ERP5 dedicated to
  small enterprises and with little or no requirement for
  parametrization."
  
Permanent URL for this Press Release  

  http://www.nexedi.com/sections/news/di2004/?theme=printable
      
About Nexedi

  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.
  
Contact Information
  
  www.nexedi.com
  Jean-Paul Smets
  +33(0)662 05 76 14
  jp@nexedi.com
        
References

   1. http://www.01net.com/article/245204.html
   2. http://www.01net.com/decisioninformatique/
   3. http://www.erp5.org/
   4. http://www.cps-project.org/
   5. http://www.nuxeo.com