This market is incredibly crowded.
There are so many options, so many pricing schemes from free to software as a service to extremely costly packages.
Right now our company uses an rather clunky combination of QuickBooks Enterprise (for accounting) and AdvancePro (a QB compatible software for Inventory and CRM).
I'm looking for something that can "do it all" and is well-supported (either officially or by the community), regularly updated, and easy to setup and use.
I've looked at "premier" options like SAP, and they are just so overwhelming costly.
Here are my current requirements.
1. Accounting
2. CRM
3. Inventory
4. Web-integration (Real-time inventory display)
On the topic of web-integration, are there any common standards for getting inventory data (via SQL I assume) to a website? There are so many web-commerce packages now as well, and I'm wondering if there is a common backend standard for integration.
Here are my future requirements:
5. Multi-branch / multi-national integration
We have locations around the world, and all of them are using different accounting and inventory systems. I'd like to get all of these better integrated in the future. The accounting part becomes kind of tricky because of having to deal with local finance / accounting / tax laws, but I still wonder if there is a solution for this.
I tend to be attracted by open source software. For one the cost is unbeatable. But open source solutions vary tremendously in terms of quality and most-importantly community-based support. I've run across, for example ADempiere.org, but it is not clear to me how complex it would be to setup, maintain, and use this solution.
Any recommendations here based on personal experience?
There are so many options, so many pricing schemes from free to software as a service to extremely costly packages.
Right now our company uses an rather clunky combination of QuickBooks Enterprise (for accounting) and AdvancePro (a QB compatible software for Inventory and CRM).
I'm looking for something that can "do it all" and is well-supported (either officially or by the community), regularly updated, and easy to setup and use.
I've looked at "premier" options like SAP, and they are just so overwhelming costly.
Here are my current requirements.
1. Accounting
2. CRM
3. Inventory
4. Web-integration (Real-time inventory display)
On the topic of web-integration, are there any common standards for getting inventory data (via SQL I assume) to a website? There are so many web-commerce packages now as well, and I'm wondering if there is a common backend standard for integration.
Here are my future requirements:
5. Multi-branch / multi-national integration
We have locations around the world, and all of them are using different accounting and inventory systems. I'd like to get all of these better integrated in the future. The accounting part becomes kind of tricky because of having to deal with local finance / accounting / tax laws, but I still wonder if there is a solution for this.
I tend to be attracted by open source software. For one the cost is unbeatable. But open source solutions vary tremendously in terms of quality and most-importantly community-based support. I've run across, for example ADempiere.org, but it is not clear to me how complex it would be to setup, maintain, and use this solution.
Any recommendations here based on personal experience?
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