When we started opentaps nine years ago, our goal was to create great business software from open source. And have we ever! Most people wouldn’t have believed that enterprise-class open source ERP and CRM was possible, but we did it — thanks to Linux, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, OFBiz, JasperReports, and many others open source projects.
The world, meanwhile, has moved forward too. It’s no secret that the future of software is mobile, social, and big data, and open source software is moving in those directions as well.
What does this mean for real businesses?
Imagine being able to capture all your interactions with customers as they happen: by email, on twitter/Facebook/pinterest, via text messages, or by phone. Anywhere. Any time. Any how.
Then imagine being able to use that information to make your customers happier — and sell more.
That’s what we think a whole new generation of open source software could do for you. And we’ve started by creating a whole new opentaps to do it. Because it is built with a whole new different set of open source technologies and a different cloud-open source business model, we’ve created a new site at opentaps.com for this new product. Meanwhile, the existing open source ERP and CRM lives on at opentaps.org and will continue to evolve.
We hope you’ll join for the next phase of our journey — the best is yet to come.