Posted by
davidnwelton on
Nov 25, 2005; 10:45am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/OFBiz-Users-questions-and-suggestions-tp136582.html
Hi,
I've continued looking into ofbiz and what it might offer the
organization I'm working with. I have some questions, and a few
comments/suggestions.
1) The whole thing looks very well thought out. I'm attracted to it
because I like the idea of using (and perhaps collaborating with)
people who have been thinking about the sorts of problems that ofbiz
solves for some time, and appear to know their stuff. Of most
interest is the order manager, picking/packing... "back office"
portions of the system. It looks like ofbiz gives you the flexibility
to do all kinds of interesting things.
2) My boss had a look at the home page and the showcased clients, and
wasn't terribly impressed. A lot of them seem pretty small. In
another email I read while poking around the site mentioned
applications with "thousands of simultaneous users". I'd suggest
fewer, more important examples, and then link to a big list of anyone
who's willing to be linked, to give a feel for the quantity of users.
3) Both the home page and the default look and feel are "busy",
especially combined with the many, many options and possibilities that
most of the applications present. I think this could be in part
rectified by a bit of css work (go easy on the bold fonts), and
breaking the home page up some. You're hit with an awful lot of text
at first, without a great deal of whitespace or images to break it up.
This is fine for techies, but consider the PHB who will be involved
in any decision to use this system:-)
4) We have a number of products in the order of magnitude of a
million. Anyone else doing anything that size? A lot of the example
sites seem to be e-commerce sites with a limited number of products.
5) Because there are so many options, possibilities, and flexibility,
some of the screens in the various applications look a bit
bewildering. I wonder if it's possible to "scale down", so that
someone who has to process orders, for instance, gets a nice, easy to
use screen with few, clear options?
Thankyou,
--
David N. Welton
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http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/Apache, Linux, Tcl Consulting
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http://www.dedasys.com/
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