The Open For Business Project
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The Open For Business Project released the newest version (2.0 Beta 2) of its business automation tools, components, and applications on Tuesday July 2nd, 2002. This beta release represents the completion of all of the main components of the OFBiz framework. Other framework components will be added as the project progresses, but the most important architectural enablers are now in place. More information can be found on the Open For Business web site at http://www.ofbiz.org or on the Open For Business SourceForge project site at http://sf.net/projects/ofbiz.

The vision of the Open For Business Project is to embrace and enable the 5 E's: Ease of Cost, Ease of Installation, Ease of Customization, Ease of Integration, and Ease of Use.

The tools and components available can shorten J2EE business project cycles by months through a well designed architecture, pre-built components, and a dynamic entity model based data source abstraction layer. The goal of the Open For Business project is to provide useful, standards compliant tools and applications. These standards will include: XML; J2EE; WfMC's XPDL; BPML; ebXML; UNSPSC; GAAP & FASB; OMG's GL, Party, etc; ArapXML; qbXML; and other leading standards that relate to the various tools, components and applications of Open For Business (see http://www.ofbiz.org for more details).

The Open For Business Project features the following:

So what does the future of Open For Business look like? A quick glance at the architecture diagrams on our web site will reveal that we have barely begun to implement all of the components and applications that are planned. The future will bring improvements to the rule, constraint and workflow engines, and the introduction of the message engine, data analysis and content and knowledge management tools, and a whole suite of enterprise applications ranging everywhere from eCommerce to Warehouse Management to Accounting to Human Resources to Sales Force and Marketing Automation. 

If it needs to be done in general business, it will be done in Open For Business. And if it's not done in general business, but is specific to your industry or particular company, it will be easy to build and integrate with Open For Business.

Services based on the Open For Business Project are available through affiliated consultants and companies. For more information see Services tab of the Open For Business site at www.ofbiz.org.