Solarsoft’s Tropos ERP Solution a Key Ingredient for New Bloomer Candy Company

Solarsoft Business Systems, a leading provider of business systems for mid-sized manufacturers, announced today that chocolate manufacturer and distributor New Bloomer Candy Company of Zanesville, Ohio, has selected Solarsoft’s Tropos ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution for process manufacturing.


“Solarsoft’s Tropos ERP platform and their expertise in the food and beverage industry were a real plus to New Bloomer Candy Company,” says Jerry Nolder, New Bloomer Candy Company’s CEO. “Tropos will enable big ERP capabilities for a small manufacturer like us. Tropos’ applications will give New Bloomer Candy a competitive edge over similar candy companies.”


For more than a century, New Bloomer Candy customers have enjoyed its gourmet chocolates which are blended in precise detail from family recipes. To continue this tradition New Bloomer Candy wanted to find the right solution to replace its decade-old legacy computer system and manufacturing-distribution ERP.
After an evaluation process which reviewed 51 ERP vendors, New Bloomer Candy selected Solarsoft due to its suite of products meeting or exceeding New Bloomer Candy’s business requirements: 

• Real-time information
• Recipe management
• Bill of Materials
• Sales management
• Lot traceability
• Inventory management
• Integrated financial applications.

In Tropos, New Bloomer Candy gains: 

• An out-of-the-box comprehensive solution that integrates core ERP functions with touch-screen enabled shop-floor data collection and mobile bar-code scanning of inventory. The extensive built-in functionality also includes forecasting, capacity planning, drag-and-drop production scheduling, and quality.

• Easy identification of potential stock shortages.

• An ERP solution designed from the ground up to meet the demands of process manufacturers, without the need for customized bolt-ons or add-ons.

About Solarsoft Tropos 

Tropos is an enterprise resource planning solution developed for process manufacturing. Tropos’ real-time, accurate information maximizes performance for food processors and packers, pharmaceuticals, mills and metals processing, specialty chemicals and general manufacturing in process-oriented industries, particularly those supplying the major retailers or those distributing short shelf-life products.

About Solarsoft Business Systems 

Solarsoft provides modern enterprise software and IT services to manufacturers, distributors and wholesale businesses in North America, Europe and Asia. The company has grown organically and through acquisition since 1986 and has worldwide revenues of US$100 million. Solarsoft employs more than 400 professionals providing local support across 16 time zones. More than 2,000 companies rely on Solarsoft to bring clarity and efficiency to their daily operations.

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Data Virtualization Links CRM, ERP and SCM

Data virtualization could be the next big thing in the customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise applications space.


If you can imagine an environment where you can integrate on-premise, cloud and SaaS applications quickly, easily and securely, you're on your way to understanding the potential of data virtualization. Next, imagine that you can automatically link your PeopleSoft, Vantive, Salesforce and SAP systems to provide a single continuous view of the customer.


These pretty radical concepts are already available in a product from Queplix, a leader in data virtualization. Other players in the field include Informatica, Pervasive Software, Composite Software, DataFlux and VisionWare. And the giants are also on the move.


"IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP are all data management big guns with interests in the cloud, master data management and enterprise applications," said John Abbott, co-founder and chief analyst of The 451 Group.


Abbott said IBM (NYSE: IBM) has made a series of integration acquisitions, while Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) acquired product data-quality vendor Silver Creek Systems earlier this year to boost its data management credentials. And SAP (NYSE: SAP) is in the process of assimilating Sybase.


But what exactly is data virtualization? Well, Wikipedia defines data virtualization as "the presentation of data as an abstract layer, independent of underlying database systems, structures and storage."


Data virtualization allows companies to get critical customer care, sales force automation and other important CRM applications working together to improve business operations and provide better service to their customers, said Michael Zuckerman, chief marketing officer of Queplix.


Last month, Queplix released Queplix Virtual Data Manager (QVDM), a product that can manage a simple integration between two applications or scale easily to integrate multiple instances of a complex application such as Siebel or SAP.


The core of the product is its persistent metadata server, which is accessible to all applications and provides a common source of data information and truth, said Zuckerman.


"Data virtualization offers a fundamental change in the way application and data integration problems can be solved," said Abbott. "Once virtualized, the data is available for secure reuse, with potential incremental return on investment with each application."


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Open Source ERP Can Solve The Issue Of Outgrowing QuickBooks

Recent surveys have found that small and medium businesses (SMB) are increasingly willing to consider open source solutions. Not surprisingly, SMB and large enterprises are predisposed to different categories of open source software. 


Survey data suggests that open source ERP is one such OSS category where SMBs are more likely to adopt OSS than their large enterprise peers.
Several open source ERP vendors are vying for a share of the action. Small and medium business owners and/or IT department heads should consider whether an open source ERP package could meet your business needs as your company grows.


Growing adoption of OSS in SMB
Just fifteen months ago, Forrester published survey data that suggested SMBs were much more apprehensive about open source software then large enterprises. In summarizing the Forrester results, I wrote:


The Forrester study also found that more than half of SMBs (57 percent) also expressed concern that open-source software would be complex and hard to adopt, but only 32 percent of enterprises expressed a similar sentiment. In addition, 68 percent of SMBs cited the availability of service and support for open-source software as a concern, compared with 47 percent of enterprises.


More recently however, Jay Layman of The 451 Group reported that a study from CompTIAsuggested SMBs were more willing to consider and invest in open source products. Layman wrote:


In terms of open source, the study indicates nearly 20% of SMBs polled plan to begin using open source software in the next year. We believe that is a significant figure, particularly when we consider all of the open source software - from OS to middleware to applications - that SMBs may already be using, but just are not necessarily aware it is open source (via SIs, resellers, service providers and others that are increasingly using and incorporating open source).


Open source ERP usage small, but larger in SMB
Forrester analyst Jeffrey Hammond's recent LinuxCon keynote contained a wealth of data, including a view of OSS adoption by software category across company sizes.


According to a 4Q2009 survey of over 1,900 IT decision makers, companies with 20 to 999 employees were 50 percent more likely to have adopted open source CRM and ERP business applications than companies with more than 1,000 employees.


It should however be noted, that only 9 percent of companies surveyed with 20 to 999 employees were using an open source ERP offering. The adoption rate was however higher than Portals, such as Liferay, or Business Intelligence tools, such as Jasper Reports, across companies of all sizes.


All this begs the question, "could an open source ERP package be right from my midsize business"?


When to consider open source ERP products
Ned Lily, CEO of open source ERP vendor xTuple, explained in an email that his company is seeing strong interest from two types of customers.


First, companies with revenues of $5 to $50 million annually that are outgrowing the capabilities of QuickBooks. Previously, their only logical choice was an SMB version of SAP or Oracle Applications. However, the complexity of an SAP or Oracle Applications implementation and the time required ultimately forced customers to make due with QuickBooks.


Second, midsized companies that adopted an ERP package in the lead-up to Y2K, and are now beginning to consider alternatives that provide greater flexibility without the need for an army of consultants and at a much lower cost. Access to source code, either directly or through service providers, is a key attraction to companies in this second camp. Lily explained


We hear anecdotally from partners and customers that implementations are faster because of open architecture and ability to make low-impact changes to the source code or extensions around the core.


xTuple recently announced new customers, a Cloud-based offering, a user community of over 25,000 active members and over 400,000 downloads to date.


Openbravo and Compiere, both previous winners of InfoWorld's Best of Open Sourcein the ERP category, are two other leading open source ERP products.


In addition to a traditional software package, Openbravo offers its ERP package as a software or hardware appliance to further simplify and cut deployment costs. Openbravo also boasts a large partner network, which can help midsize companies evaluate and adopt an appropriate product.


Compiere on the other hand was recently acquired by Consona Corporation. Coverage of the acquisitionsuggests that Compiere needs to refocus on its users, partners and community if it hopes to grow again.


The list of open source ERP vendors is not exhaustive by any means. Midsized enterprises considering an ERP package are encouraged to evaluate several packages - which, of course, is made easier through the low barrier for open source offerings.


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