Discuss the skills required to do open source enterprise resource planning (ERP)
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With many private and public startup companies emerging from public sector reorganisations, for instance in primary healthcare, there is a need to quickly automate administrative functions to keep costs to a minimum. Enterprise Resource Planning systems don't just produce accounts, the provide agile front and back office processes required by most organisations. The panel will comprise platforms and partner companies from the open source ERP market invited companies support OpenERP, OpenBravo, OpenTAPS, Mamut, SQLLedger.
The format of the evening will be a "question time format", where the panel will be asked a question after which the audience is invited to participate. Around 4-5 questions wil be considered:
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Introduction : Who are you, company, platform, features?
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Typical jobs: what does a typical sales, development, maintenance process look like?
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Skills: What are the typical profiles of users/developers?
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Sourcing/Training: whats on offer, what is the market like?
Including networking the session will go on between:1800:2100.
If you want to get involved with or attend the Healthcare Open Source Skunkworks (http://guildfoss.com/pg/ad/gfoss/read/150/the-skunkworks) event on Nov 7/8th , please contact Neil Hadland T: 020 7785 692.