This release includes more than 400 new and enhanced features across its global financial management, purchasing, materials management, manufacturing, order management, sales, and service application suite. It adds compatibility with Oracle 11g, EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus 8.3, Red Hat JBoss 4.2.2, Sun Java Runtime Environment 6, and Mozilla Firefox 3.0. It provides continuing support for Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, the Oracle 10g database, and Internet Explorer 6 and 7 and Firefox 2 browsers.
This is a strategic milestone in the company's quest to change the economics of business software and make enterprise resource planning (ERP) easier. It includes expanded returns management functionality, new financial reporting templates, and more than 150 usability enhancements, functionality improvements, and community contributions. It introduces Compiere Professional Edition, a new premium offering targeted at larger organizations that require a Web architecture and advanced services.
The functional highlights are redesigned import (product, business partner, chart of accounts, financial report structure), resource management, schedule resources, expense and time reporting, financial reporting, and customer asset management. The technical highlights are: translation pack (the ability to distribute translations) and the ability to export to PDF (in addition to Postscript, HTML, Excel, and XML).
