When upgrading commercial editions of xTuple ERP, there are a few basic points to pay attention to:
1. All the commercial editions are built upon the Standard Edition. So, when upgrading from one version to the next (e.g., from 3.7.0 to 3.8.0), you must first run the Standard upgrade package. In this example, the Standard upgrade package would be named '...
Open source software is available for free, along with its source code, and it has developed its own substantial following since the early days of computing. The best known implementations are in infrastructure areas, with the well-known Linux, Java, and PHP packages. Recently, it has gained added attention due to its central role in cloud IT, and through the growing Linux-based Android...
From CANNES, France—A collaboration between two global giants, Coca-Cola and Google, reeled in the Grand Prix in the inaugural year of the Mobile Lions contest here today [June 19, 2012].
The winning execution, developed by Grow Interactive in Norfolk, Va., was an app that allowed consumers to send Cokes to unsuspecting strangers at specially outfitted vending machines around the globe...
From Steve Goad of On the Road in Hampton Roads at Tech Nite 2012: "You would not think of Hampton Roads, Virginia, as an Application Mecca let alone a place to start up an Internet company. According to xTuple co-founder, Ned Lilly, President and CEO it’s an excellent community to start a company."
Goad continues, "About ten years ago, Ned Lilly co-founded xTuple, originally called...
While I hate to toot my own horn, that is why I am here at xTuple, after all. To toot mine, yours and ours as the new @xTuple Marketing Director . I'm here to serve you: our open source community, our customers, our partners and the innovators and entrepreneurs who are just learning about us... all on a global scale.
So I invite you to email me directly and tell me what you need, and...
By Richard Foster for Virginia Business magazine's June 2012 Technology section, Virginia's Source for Business Intelligence.
Until recently, enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications were almost exclusively the province of global Goliath corporations with multiple locations, thousands of employees and very complicated back-office accounting and inventory needs.
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By guest blogger Lisa Suhay, originally published in The Virginian-Pilot , May 13, 2012
A couple of weeks ago I was a granola-headed mom of four who ran a free chess program and wrote mermaid books and stories. However, after accidentally attending an Apprentice-like competition called Start Norfolk , I am now Suhay 2.0.
I "populate copy" instead...
By guest blogger P.J. Jakovljevic, originally posted at Technology Evaluation Centers , April 30, 2012
While Virginia might have seen its share of controversy over the recent laws on women’s reproductive rights, the region’s business and entrepreneurial climate is undisputed owing to vibrant enterprise applications vendors. One such vendor is Deltek — long reported by TEC as the...
Learn about open source robotics company Willow Garage , a leading edge risk-taker on PBS: America Revealed . Follow the company on Twitter @willowgarage .
Steve Cousins is CEO at Willow Garage in California. Willow Garage makes personalized robots, robots that do chores, such as load the dishwasher or take the dog for a walk. America Revealed host, Yul Kwon, met with Steve and some of...
Winning the future through open innovation is a story with no beginning — or end. That was the biggest take-away from the second Start Norfolk build-a-business-in-a-weekend competition held at the end of April 2012 at Old Dominion University's Ted Constant Convocation Center.
The metrics: over 275 attendees, 17 sponsors, 18 mentors and judges, 9 speakers and 73 ideas pitched. And we...
It's exciting when your company's decade-short entrepreneurial efforts have helped seed a new business culture and to see the successful results of other company's labors.
xTuple (Next Generation Business Management Software to Grow Your World), headquartered in the "Innovation Corridor" of downtown Norfolk, Va., is seeing the results with startup competitions, entrepreneurial boot...
A recent article in USA Today, " Ask an Expert: Entrepreneurs, avoid these these 5 tech traps ," succinctly summed up one of the biggest mistakes companies make specifically in regards to their business management software. That tech trap is item number four on expert Steve Strauss' list:
4. Never really learning the software: Like the brain, people tend to...
Interested in starting a company? Then Startup Night , now in its second year, is for you; it’s a monthly panel discussion/networking event hosted by We Are Titans, a web development and design studio and organizer of the build-a-business weekend-long competition, Start Norfolk .
Left to right: Ned Lilly, President and CEO of xTuple , and Paul DiNardo...
We Are Titans announces Start Norfolk 2.0, a weekend long event bringing together individuals of different mind and skill sets — entrepreneurs, engineers, developers, designers, and business professionals — with the goal of building viable startups.
According to the organizers, Start Norfolk is: "Rocketfuel for your startup. From blueprints to buildouts in a weekend."
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A moment of silence for ERP.
Much has been discussed about SAP’s pending $3.4B acquisition of SuccessFactors , and now Oracle’s $1.9 billion deal to buy Taleo. Rightly, SAP and Oracle have been praised for trying to bolster their cloud offerings with these moves. But, in a few years, I wonder if it will really matter. Because, while SAP and Oracle are obviously trying to get with the...
While xTuple began as a manufacturing-oriented ERP system, we have been working for years to incorporate additional functionality for industrial and wholesale distributors. Features such as drop ship purchasing, advanced returns management, multi-warehouse control and sophisticated lot/serial tracking and tracing are all included in the xTuple Standard Edition. The Project Edition, of course,...
By some estimates, about 13% of a company’s revenue can be tied up in excess working capital. Freeing up this capital can make more cash available for needed investments or to reduce debt.
Your company’s financial data can give you valuable insights into how efficiently you operate. Three areas to measure are: how long is inventory on hand before being sold, how long does it take to...
After an extended period of development, I am pleased to announce updates to all of the Fixed Asset Management packages. All three packages (Fixed Asset, Asset Depreciation, Asset Maintenance) have been updated to version 1.1.
You must install Fixed Asset 1.1 before upgrading the Depreciation or Maintenance packages. Please note the packages you download from the xChange include...
From MacVoicesTV : Another enterprise software company making themselves known in the Mac OS X Zone at Macworld | iWorld 2012 was xTuple. Wally Tonra, vice president of sales, reviews their offerings, which include accounting, customer relationship management, purchasing, billing and more. Interviewer, Chuck Joiner asked ... How can any of that be FREE? xTuple has open source roots which allow...
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