What is Coderetreat? By Ryan Castillo Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design. By providing developers the opportunity to take part in focused practice, away from the pressures of ‘getting things done’, the coderetreat format has proven itself to be a highly effective means of skill [...]
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Choosing the right software vendor is just as important to the success of your company as putting a solid marketing plan into place. After all, the software package your company uses will play a big factor in the efficiency of your staff, and it will have a direct impact on your ability to provide your [...]
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Startup America, touring the Commonwealth of Virginia this month, learned about unique cultures and communities – startups and the people associated with them. The tour stopped at xTuple headquarters in Norfolk for a TechMeetup on Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Donna Harris and Mary Simonds of StartupAmerica brought knowledge, experience - and encouraging words – to all of [...]
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“An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than for illumination.” — Andrew Lang, late Scottish poet and novelist Web-based business intelligence (BI) solutions are making BI more accessible and increasing the utilization in operations, especially if the solution allows you to easily analyze from different dimensions. For [...]
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What is your Herby*? Everyone has at least one. Product Enthusiast, Mike Atherton, opens one of his regular xTuple training weeks with, “I’ve taught more xTuple classes and accomplished more implementations of the ERP platform than anyone on the planet.” He added, “But what I’m really known for is my low-key, retiring personality.” All jokes [...]
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Was recently putting some thoughts together on the tipping point for a business to finally make the plunge and replace their ERP system and it seems that many “experts” and “articles” like to include the cloud or “The Cloud” in this discussion. Recalling an event where Oracles’ Larry Ellison expressed his opinion of the cloud. [...]
READ MORE »Roy Sutton, developer relations engineer at Enyo (Hewlett Packard’s HTML5 platform), discussed Enyo, originally developed for the HP TouchPad, the ill-fated webOS Palm tablet. The modern HTML5-focused JavaScript framework was born and lives on. Enyo has been updated to work on all modern browsers, mobile and desktop. It is not just another JavaScript framework; all [...]
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Wholesale Distribution. And the average citizen will live their entire life without giving this vital industry a single thought. The average Congressman or other members of the Federal government know little about the industry as well. The wholesale distribution industry has annual sales greater than that of the retail trade industry, to the tune of [...]
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These days, amid the austerity, cuts, and general malaise, it is refreshing to hear about the whopping annual growth of a manufacturing-oriented enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor. Sure, one can discount the magnitude of this upbeat news—this particular vendor is still budding, if you compare it to SAP, Oracle, or Infor—but I welcome this (and so should any ERP [...]
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You might have noticed a particular phrase that’s worked its way into a lot of our branding here at xTuple: “Grow your world.” You might have even noticed that it’s got a little (R) registered trademark notice after it. That’s how strongly we feel about this phrase. Could you indulge me for a minute while [...]
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