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I am using OFBiz for the company I work for. Like you, I found the user
task-centric. That is by design by the way - the interface shipped with OFBiz is
The approach we took here was to design our own user interface - built upon the
excellent framework that OFBiz supplies. The default UI was used as a guide to
design our own task-centric data entry screens. It took a little over six months
database-centric. There is a lot of SQL built into the source code. That SQL may
not port to all databases. On the other hand, OFBiz is database AND operating
system agnostic - it will run on just about any database and operating system.
With that it mind - it also scales well. Do you need to support tens of
>>It's always nice to get some feedback like this, Si has been working
>>hard on making OFBiz more palatable to the movers and shakers, and I'm
>>sure he'll read your comments with interest.
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>>We have some plans on the look and feel front, but bear in mind OFBiz is
>>growing rapidly, so it isn't high on the agenda at the moment.
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> Part of it is probably just a graphical touch up by someone who is
> good with that sort of thing. That's not really a big deal, I think.
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> Of more concern is managing the complexity presented to users of the
> system. It's a tough problem, and perhaps one that is simply not
> possible to deal with in a generic way. A lot of google's
> applications (gmail, for instance) are a good example of the direction
> that good applications will go in, I think. Gmail is easy enough my
> mom can use it despite being new to computers, and yet it's not
> limiting for me (it's the first web mail system that doesn't drive me
> buggy, infact).
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>
>>David (E. Jones) and I were recently in contact with a large client who
>>was asking some of the same questions you are, one of the emails with a
>>lot of the info you're looking for is attached below. It doesn't answer
>>your specific question, but will give you a good idea of what to expect.
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> Thanks!
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>>OFBiz has pretty good granular security control, so it is possible to
>>limit user access both at the application level and the
>>application/feature level. So you don't need to overwhelm users with a
>>sea of irrelevant features. See the ltdadmin user account for a very
>>simple example of this.
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> Cool. I think all the pieces are probably there, it's just a matter
> of how much time it takes to put them together. The 'competition' in
> my case is the internal system that's been put together a mix of
> things that isn't pretty to look at but does work.
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>>I hope this helps you a little.
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> It's useful, yes, thanks for your prompt reply!
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> Our situation is most likely not a huge load of concurrent users
> (although it's good to see that this scales linearly), as right now
> we're doing tens of thousands of web site hits a day, but a huge
> quantity of products for sale in the DB. Luckily for now we don't
> have to worry about stocking a very large portion of those physically.
> We'll probably keep the web front-end we have now as it works pretty
> well for our products, and is mostly statically
>
> One other question - ofbiz does have a community, and people using it
> for their businesses. So it's good design built on working code that
> does something pretty complex. Yet it doesn't strike me as being
> visible in the open source world... I'd heard of compiere even though
> it was a subject that didn't interest me prior to this job, but ofbiz
> was something I discovered only when I went hunting for it. Any
> thoughts on that?
>
> Thanks again,
> --
> David N. Welton
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> Apache, Linux, Tcl Consulting
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