Strategic Plan

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The ADempiere plan

The ADempiere strategic plan was put forward as an idea in the sourceforge ADempiere forum. Its aim is to be used by the ADempiere community to analyze and formulate answers in the most important questions:

  • Where are we now?
  • What should we do?
  • Where will we be in 3 years time?

A strategic plan is a serial proccess, which analyzes what is going on around us, combines it with our abilities, and develops the course that we should take, in a very substantiatied manner. An added advantage of having a strategic plan, is that, as professionals, we will have the basis on which we could develop our own Business Plans. We will know where we are standing, and what can we do about it.

Executive Summary

  • Incomplete

The ADempiere community has many things going on its side. On a large scale, as world economic conditions tend to worsen, the investments in IT tend to be evaluated in a cost-effectiveness manner. Public Administrations embrace open source software and may even fund its development. The open source development model is in its best in providing solutions to users, since they are mostly developers themselves. ADempiere appeals to Wholesalers, Franchisee's and Exporting companies due to the multiple languages taxes and companies. ADempiere lowers TCO by being open source. On the other hand, ADempiere compares unfavorably with proprietary ERP's because it lacks productization, and needs implemented cutting-edge features to appeal to early adopters. A Marketing shortcut would be to leverage the existing functionality of mature OSS products.

Sections of the Plan

The plan is divided into the following sections

  1. The World as seen through ADempiere (What is happening to the outside world)
  2. The ADempiere World (The ADempiere World:what are we good(or not) at)
  3. ADempiere Project SWOT Analysis (We combine the previous findings among them, and develop our tactics)
  4. ADempiere Project Mission (What is all about)
  5. ADempiere Project Strategies (How will we get things done)
  6. ADempiere Project Policies (Rules of the thumb)
  7. ADempiere Project Programs (The sub-projects -eg ADempiere Marketing to the Community)
  8. ADempiere Project Budget (For all of this work.)

This will **ALWAYS** be a work in progress. It will constantly change and shift to adapt to new developments, and be always here for anyone to add his findings, data, information, suggestions and have a say in the development of sub-projects.