WHAT IS ERP ALL ABOUT

Some of the features of Open Source ERP are as follows:
Cutting down the costs
This is the first and foremost advantage of ERP. Companies really find it taxing to pay the additional cess whenever a renewal is made to existing license system. Since they invest a large amount in the initial stage they find difficulty in paying again and again. All these have been completely done away with by the intervention of open source ERP. All that the company has to do is to download the software and make use of it.

However this issue has drawn lot of controversies recently. Some companies feel that open source is not promising enough to meet the application deliverables. The others find it convenient to make the necessary payments for the service rendered. This debate continues endlessly in one end while in the other end the fact remains that erp open source has made it possible for S.M.E.'s to enter the market owing to the cheap cost.

Companies don't prefer to go for open source applications due to cost alone. They choose it if and only they are convinced that it will help them keeping their IT infrastructure and requirements in mind.