Newsletter – December 2009

The recent important media coverage of OpenERP has increased its visibility to the general public. The amount of visitors on the website that now reaches 3500 visitors per day is the sign of a larger interest for our application. Moreover, OpenERP is downloaded more than 750 times per day. The efforts invested in what was once a small project a couple of years ago is now paying off and we are very proud of it. The amount of customers increases every day as well and the partners are very excited to implement the application.

In regards with the multiple questions of the users and to give the opportunity to discover OpenERP, we are organizing a demonstration day on December 18 2009. During that day, we will show the functionalities of the software and we will talk about the strategy in place to support its growth. You can subscribe for free by email: nma@openerp.com. The demonstration day will start at 9:30am and will end at 3:00pm.

We will also organize a special day for the official partners of OpenERP in January 2010. The business strategy of 2010 will be addressed and discussion groups will be created around particular topics (commercial approach, maintenance contracts, partnering contracts, new versions,…)

The interest of the public for our application often drives them to apply for trainings. These trainings take place in our offices. They provide a fast way to understand and effectively use the application. The trainings schedule for 2010 is now available:

• 11 to 15 January 2010: Functional training (fr)
• 18 to 22 January 2010: Technical training (fr)
• 8 to 12 February 2010: Functional training (eng)
• 15 to 19 February 2010: Technical training (eng)

For 2010, we have set high but realistic objectives. In addition to the business development, we intend to increase the size of our team to support our partners even more closely.

A new version will be released with improvements in terms of look and feel and data screening. The CRM module will also benefit of new functions like the management of alerts or the integrated document management.

Among our new partners, we are happy to welcome Thales Belgium (services department) and Business&Decision who will be promoting OpenERP to their customers. We wish them and all our partners a successful year 2010.