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Working with OpenERP

By : Greg Moss
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Working with OpenERP

By: Greg Moss

Overview of this book

<p>OpenERP continues to gain momentum throughout the world in providing the best platform for open source ERP installations. This book covers all the essential modules and how to get the power of OpenERP to work for you.</p> <p>"Working with OpenERP" provides a real-world business solution approach to integrating OpenERP into your small or medium sized business. This book begins by walking you through how to install OpenERP on a Windows or Ubuntu server then takes you through all the essential modules you will need to get OpenERP up and running for your company.</p> <p>All through the book, "Working with OpenERP" provides real-world examples in sales, customer relationship management (CRM), purchasing, manufacturing, human resources, and financial accounting. After covering the basics, you will learn how to customize various methods to configure OpenERP for your business and even build your own custom modules.</p> <p>"Working with OpenERP" covers all the basics of installing and using OpenERP along with advanced real-world examples you will not find anywhere else.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Working with OpenERP
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Alternative reporting solutions


Many companies will want more reporting options that are currently not available in OpenERP. Like many other ERP systems, companies will typically utilize and integrate alternative reporting platforms. Here are a few that are popular in the OpenERP community.

Jaspersoft reports

Jaspersoft offers a variety of both open source and licensed reporting solutions. There is a report server as well as a very nice graphical report editor available.

Community edition of JasperReports Server

You can download the community edition of JasperReports Server from http://community.jaspersoft.com/project/jasperreports-server.

Community edition of iReport Designer

The server software provides report access and processing. To design reports graphically, you will need to download the iReport Designer for the operating system of your choice from http://community.jaspersoft.com/project/ireport-designer.

Pentaho/Kettle

Pentaho, also known as Kettle, is a very useful tool for data translations and for reporting out to Excel or other formats. It doesn't provide the extensive reporting tools of Jasper, but is very robust for integrating OpenERP with other systems and creating automated data exports. Depending on your needs, Pentaho may fit your needs. You can get this from http://kettle.pentaho.com/.

Aeroo Reports

Another popular reporting option that integrates well with OpenERP is Aeroo Reports for OpenERP. This solution doesn't have the robust reporting ability of Jasper, but integrates better with the OpenERP framework. It is an option that you may wish to consider if the built-in OpenERP reports do not meet all your needs. You can find a lot more in detail on Aeroo Reports at https://launchpad.net/aeroo.