ERPNext vs Odoo

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@ericmachine88

b) Is there any BI solutions for ERPNext? As in Odoo, often times I may need to use jaspersoft to talk to Odoo (via postgres db). I would prefer to have a good solution part of ERPNext. What is your recommended practice?

Jasper Erpnext Integration

Hi. I finish my app - Jasper Erpnext Report - two month ago, but only now i have some spare time to fix the coming bugs. So, i need your help. Please install the app and send me the founded bugs! Maybe you can find my app useful. Help me make it better! If you can make my code better, please send me a pull request. To install please follow this paper: Jasper Erpnext Report Any question you can post in gitter (address in the same page) or send me an email. Thanks.

@ericmachine88

e) For private modules created for ERPNext, do I need to share it with the community? Just say some company engages me to work on an ERP for their company. They would be concern sharing the developed modules to the community.

Considering MIT license licensing - Meaning of MIT license - Software Engineering Stack Exchange says

1. You can sell the software.
2. You are not compelled to provide source code.
3. Anyone who receives source code may do as the license permits. This does not extend to binary distributions.

@ericmachine88

g) In Odoo v9, their pnl and balance sheet allow drill down. Similar to what accounting software e.g. quickbooks and myob can do out of the box. That’s the killer to be honest. How about ERPNext?

There is PnL and Balance sheet, Cash Flow is done!. Reports have expandable tree view, checkout ledger by clicking account.

@ericmachine88

h) Does ERPNext core team offer any commercial support? I am thinking to engage when comes to project implementation where some customers prefer some level of assurances from the principal team. Is there such thing?

ERPNext Pricing

https://community.erpnext.com/service-providers

@ericmachine88

i) I noticed ERPNext has a SaaS model. If I plan to setup 1 for myself, is there any guides to make this worked? In Odoo, unfortunately the only place to find such info is from slideshare (if not mistaken). The rest I have to crack my head to figure out. If ERPNext can offer the scripts used, would be super awesome

checkout Bench - Multi-tenant platform to manage Frappe / ERPNext

GitHub - frappe/bench: CLI to manage Multi-tenant deployments for Frappe apps

@ericmachine88

j) If I want to build a hybrid mobile (ionic framework) with a whole new interface and talking to ERPNext, is that doable? In Odoo, I have to use XMLRPC or wrap it with a REST web services. Is there anything way easier to do it with ERPNext?

https://frappe.github.io/frappe/user/guides/integration/rest_api.html

@ericmachine88

k) Will ERPNext forever be open source? I believe Odoo started that way too, but eventually turn into more commercial driven. Well it makes a lot of sense as they have investors and also need to sustain their cash flow. How about ERPNext in next 10 - 20 years down the road?

Frappe Framework https://frappe.github.io/frappe/license.html MIT
ERPNext https://frappe.github.io/erpnext/license.html GPLv3