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This is our experience also. We have adopted an incremental approach to
arise. We have made some modifications to the management screens and have
a longstanding intention to modify the customer UI which is ongoing. We
> David,
>
>
> I am using OFBiz for the company I work for. Like you, I found the user
> interface too complicated for most of the employees here, and it wasn't
> really task-centric. That is by design by the way - the interface shipped
> with OFBiz is (in my opinion) a generic presentation layer that is
> intended to expose all of the framework's capabilities.
>
> 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 to come up with a strategy that is easily
> duplicated to generate new pages and tasks.
>
> Re: Compiere - that OS project had one attribute that turned me away: it
> is 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 thousands of simultaneous users? No problem! You can run
> OFBiz on a mainframe,
> or better yet, outsource it to a sophisticated hosting company.
>
> -Adrian
>
>
>
> David Welton wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>> I hope this helps you a little.
>>>
>>
>>
>> It's useful, yes, thanks for your prompt reply!
>>
>>
>> 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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