What is Apache OFBiz?

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Apache OFBiz offers a great deal of functionality, including:

  • advanced e-commerce
  • catalog management
  • promotion & pricing management
  • order management (sales & purchase)
  • customer management (part of general party management)
  • warehouse management
  • fulfillment (auto stock moves, batched pick, pack & ship)
  • accounting (invoice, payment & billing accounts, fixed assets)
  • manufacturing management
  • general work effort management (events, tasks, projects, requests, etc)
  • content management (for product content, web sites, general content, blogging, forums, etc)
  • a maturing Point Of Sales (POS) module using XUI as rich client interface
  • and much more all in an open source package!

The Apache Open For Business Project is an open source enterprise automation software project licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0. By open source enterprise automation we mean: Open Source ERP, Open Source CRM, Open Source E-Business / E-Commerce, Open Source SCM, Open Source MRP, Open Source CMMS/EAM, and so on.

Apache OFBiz is a foundation and starting point for enterprise solutions, be they for one organization or one million. OFBiz can certainly be used OOTB (out of the box), but if you're looking for something that works really well for that there are many open source projects that do a great job there. OFBiz is great for creating specialized applications for use OOTB by other organizations. OFBiz is also great for organizations that need more than what an OOTB application can offer in order to grow their operations, but find the deployment and maintenance costs of traditional enterprise systems that can handle such things to be unreasonable or unjustifiable.

Being open source under the Apache 2.0 license and driven by a community Apache OFBiz offers both flexibility by design and by access to code, and a solution where you're not alone but rather can work with many others to get things done.

For answers to your questions you might find the following documents useful: Apache OFBiz Getting Started, Main New Features, Is Apache OFBiz for Me?,

For more technical information, see the Documentation page.

Who is Using Apache OFBiz?

It's hard to say who and how many organizations are using Apache OFBiz because you don't have to tell us when you use it, but there are lots of public sites and we've listed some of them for you here.

A selection of public sites (mostly, but not all, ecommerce) using Apache OFBiz: 1-800-Flowers.com | Action Envelope | American Heart Association: Grocery List Builder | City Deals | Compliance Online Store | DKNY | Gracious Style | ImagINwood | Juniper Music + Soundesign | Messer Group (German, French) | Old Glory | Parago | Ulta | Shirt Painter (German) | Silver Wings Plus Club | Steiner Sports | totes >> ISOTONER | Undersun Consulting |

Products based on Apache OFBiz: Codesquare Helix | Mvelopes (FREE TRIAL!) (Commercial-Service) | Atlassian JIRA (Commercial) | opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM (GPL/Commercial) | Neogia (GPL) | SourceTap CRM (GPL/Commercial) | NeuLion SAVANNA | XtraMind Mietta 2 | Entente Oya (French) |

For a more complete list of sites see the Apache OFBiz User List page.

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