A Note on Quality Assurance in Software Development

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Quality Assurance in Software application plays an important role and cannot be ignored in software development,  although there are vendors who consider Quality assurance as less important process and ignore them during the software designing or development phase. But in real terms quality plays one of the major role in the development since lack of quality in the coding or during software development may lead to nonacceptance of the project or failure in client requirements.

Although “Implementation of an ERP software or a CRM software is not a success, The success lies when the client start using it.”

Quality Assurance is not just testing the product although testing is a part of Quality Assurance. Quality assurance is a broader concept which start from the inception stage and end at final software inspection. QA process need both verification and validation.

The complete concept of Quality Assurance in software development ensure you with confirmation on the functionality, usability, efficiency, portability, Maintainability & reliability. Hence Proper QA allows you to have a high quality software development and and happy customer base.

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Common Misconceptions about Customized ERP Software

Today there are so many software tools available in the market – both proprietary and open source -that offer you with customizations as per your business requirements. There are many people who argue that development of a customized ERP software is quite costly as compared to the off-the-shelf ERP or plain vanilla ERP implementations. This argument is based on the logic that the modules and the code of the core ERP need to be modified which leads to increase in time and hence cost.

The above mentioned argument about higher costs is based on several misconceptions.

Misconception #1: Off the Shelf ERP system will have all the features that the company needs

The ERP systems sold off-the- shelf don’t have all the features that a company needs. There is always a set of features missing from the off-the-shelf products leading to a feature gap.

Misconception #2:  Off-the-Shelf ERP products do not need any customization

The feature gaps in off-the-shelf ERP products need to be filled by writing additional code or by using manual business processes. Further, business processes at different companies are always different. For example: a tire manufacturing company has different processes compared to an E-Commerce vendor. Hence any off-the-shelf ERP tool must be customized to fit the specific business requirements at a customer to make it really productive.

Misconception #3: Customizing ERP software takes long to implement

The time taken to customize an ERP software depends upon the extent of changes you want to make. For example: in the case of Odoo OpenERP Customizations, there are many ready made plug-ins and modules developed by individual contributors and partners. These library of plug-ins and modules drastically reduces the time taken to customize ERP.

Misconception #4: Customization is Expensive

Customization need not be expensive.  Custom ERP implementation companies have come up with cost-efficient delivery models. For example: Bista Solutions has a development center in India which is a low-cost nation. Using such delivery models, customization of ERP falls well within affordable budgets. Secondly compared to proprietary licensed ERP tools, open source ERP such as Odoo Open ERP comes almost free of cost (you pay for support warranties). Hence you end up saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in total cost of ownership (TCO)

If you’re interested in implementing or customizing an ERP system, get in touch. Bista Solution has over a decade of experience implementing business solutions for hundreds of companies.

Odoo Implementation Quality Assurance by Bista Solutions

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We at Bista solutions – Official partners of Odoo OpenERP – are pleased to announce our Quality Assurance & Control initiatives. Bista Solution has been delivering Odoo OpenERP related projects to multiple customers across the world. We have introduced a specialised Quality Assurance team would be working with our customers and well as our development team inside our company to ensure that all our projects are delivered with world-class quality.

Our team development team uses the Agile development methodology for delivering features to our ERP customers. The QA team will augment this development methodology with new quality initiatives and processes.

With an addition of the QA team, we are now a team of 50+ people located across India, USA, Canada and Europe.

Major Services we offer for Odoo OpenERP implementations

  • Odoo OpenERP implementation & Customizations
  • Odoo OpenERP for Manufacturing & eCommerce verticals
  • Training on OpenERP
  • Integration with 3rd party tools such as shipping services, eBay integration, Amazon Integration, Paypal integration etc.
  • Onsite Implementation
  • Business Requirement Analysis
  • Open ERP Business Consulting and more…..

Feel free to contact sales@bistasolutions.com for more information

OpenERP Invoicing

OpenERP maintains different logistics for Invoice Automation.  It also allows you to have acutomatice generation of invoices as per the workflows. Invoicing also helps you to remove the double encoding. Invoicing Module comes up with the following key points:

  • A powerful pricelist system
  • Important follow up Module

The Invoice includes the following documents:

  • The Customer Invoice
  • The Supplier Invoice
  • A Customer Credit Note or Customer Refund
  • A Supplier Credit Note or Supplier Refund

The invoice type and the representation mode differ for each of the above four documents. But they are all stored in the same object type in the system.

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Scope of OpenERP implementations

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Scope of OpenERP by www.bistasolutions.com

OpenERP one of the leading Open Source ERP software for small and medium-sized businesses and a modular solution for various verticals supporting Sales Management, Purchase Management, Inventory management, Accounting, Human Resources, Manufacturing, and others together. Apart from this many other modules to support your enterprise needs and enterprise resource planning.

After completing more than 30 implementations of OpenERP across the globe for our client we would like to highlight the scope of OpenERP implementation in your organization. Any ERP software must provide success in your organization business processes and hence ERP software is meant to provide you with strategic insights, increase productivity and flexibility and reliability of your organization.

Today OpenERP is considered as one of the best open source ERP software implemented by many small and mid-sized business to control their business activities may it is for various verticals such as Education, Manufacturing industry, online businesses, Trading organizations or Services.

Here we go with some of the benefits of OpenERP for your organization OpenERP offers you with the functionality you require to increase the effects of your departments or across your enterprise.

  • OpenERP allows you with Business Automation. Being a web based software OpenERP allows you to integrate your entire department by collaborating the data in real time.
  • OpenERP also provides you with linking of your various branches, and departments across different location through multi – company and multi-currency feature.
  • Complete dashboards in opener allow you to monitor your customers, suppliers, vendors, and partners.
  • OpenERP allows you to keep day to day sales tracking via CRM and Sales management Module, in addition, it also helps you to manage the invoices or payments.
  • There are many other points which OpenERP allows you to achieve some of them are being open source there is no licensing and vendor lock-in.

For a demo on OpenERP or to know how OpenERP can help your organization to automate business processes you can contact us here.

ERP Customizations – Key Factors towards implementations

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ERP implementations by many companies in this 21st century here we come up with another post on why erp customization plays an important role in the development. Let begin with 2 examples the first is the ERP  implementation which is out of the box or default is one aspect of ERP implementations and tweaking the module to suit the business requirement (Customizations ) is another important part of ERP implementations.

After completing 30+ implementations successfully towards ERP implementation we found out that many of our clients no matter Small and mid-sized businesses or big organizations wants to implement customize module in the ERP system to suit their business requirement.  The changing Era of technology has proved today that ERP systems are not similar which a decade ago was – this applies to many aspects of ERP software such as Mobility, Speed, integrations, Customizations, Technology, Support & Timeframe.

ERP customizations are the key factor nowadays company are considering while selecting the software. Main reasons towards ERP customizations are that companies can insure that further changes in the software is available when workflows or business changes. Organizations don’t want to invest big amount in rigid ERP software.

Another importance of ERP customizations are that it allows the business workflows and management to remain the same – it means you have a customized software and customized module with you which doesn’t require changing the structure and work as per the available modules and workflow of the ERP software.

Today there are various software available who offers you with customizations in the tool as per your requirement. This is especially in the Open source software category where the developers and companies are creating various kind of modules for their clients to suit their business requirement. Apart from this being open source the modules are available in the community which can be modified further.

If you’re interested in an ERP customization or have any questions, get in touch with us today.

Web Based Software – Bright Future

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Web based applications or internet based software have grown from past years over traditional desktop based application which needs to be installed on every computer. Web based software is now becoming the future of software industry since it allows you with lots of advantages which we will be covering in this post. We all are using web based applications some of the examples are google documents or any other email applications which can be opened with the help of internet using browser.

Although from past years we have seen that many web based applications are emerging in the industry another good example of web based software is CRM software where a salesman can use it anywhere to enter the leads and prospect customer contact. Also many web based software allows you with an option where you can access it locally by installing on your personal computer incase of internet connectivity is not available. Gaining powerful popularity web based software is leading the market by replacing the traditional software installation and also it allows you with cost effectiveness specifically for small businesses.

Some of the advantages of using web based software or why web based software are the future of software industry:

No Installation :

Web based software does not require to install anything on your computer which helps you to freed up disk space, and there is nothing to download or updates you need to do since everything is installed on the main server.

With the help of Browser you can start the application quickly with internet and can get real time data and reports. Time is less consumed since there are no tricky steps towards the installation of the tool.

Mobility and Movement:

With web based software you can move anywhere without worrying about filling the information or data into the tool since you need only internet to start the application. There are some applications and software in the market which can also support Mobile so that in case of emergencies you can log on from mobile to run the show.

Cost Effectiveness :

As compared to traditional software web based application are considered as cost effective tools since an individual or less people can also purchase the licenses. Unlike in traditional software implementation where you have to wait for implementation and the high cost even if there is few users in your organization.

Apart from that there are many other advantages of web based software which clearly indicated that the future is bright in the industry such as you don’t need specialized IT team to handle the software, No specialized servers or staffs towards the implementation of the software. You get quick assistance from the vendor incase of any queries you come up with.

Have any questions about web-based software or interested in business software implementation? Get in touch today.

ProcessMaker New version 2.0.40

One of the leading open source BPM and workflow management – ProcessMaker released its new version 2.0.40. The new version some with new features & improvements. Some of them are listed below – source of this material is here – Link

Features:

The Administrator can define Languages, timezone and memory limit.

New installation interface and much more. . .

Some of the improvements include fixed bugs, calendar administration interface improvement Read complete detail about bug fixtures and improvements on this link

Bista Solutions Releases eBay Integration Module With Odoo OpenERP

Odoo ERP with Ebay

Bista Solutions and Odoo announced the release of an ecommerce module which integrates eBay with Odoo OpenERP. The Odoo eBay connector was developed by Bista Solutions over a period of two years. Bista Solutions developed this connector while working with several leading eBay sellers. With the addition of this eBay connector, Odoo further consolidates its position as a leading open source web based ERP and a solid alternative to ERP such as NetSuite and SAP.

Key Benefits

  • A single, integrated business application that ties your business together across ecommerce, CRM, marketing, order management, inventory, manufacturing and accounting
  • A single system that merges your online and brick-and-mortar operations to manage your entire business in real time
  • Manage one or more web stores and conduct ecommerce in different countries, languages, currencies and channels

Some features of Odoo OpenERP eBay connector

  1. Product and order Import: Import all the products and orders from eBay into OpenERP.
  2. Inventory Sync: Synchronize your inventories and stock level on eBay stores from OpenERP.
  3. Update order status: Update status of your orders from OpenERP to eBay store with tracking number.
  4. List products to eBay from OpenERP: List all your product images, Catalogue search using different templates.
  5. Re List Products: Manage auctions including listing and relisting of your products with respect to the expired date and time.
  6. Product Schedule Management: Schedule listing of products based on your requirements.
  7. Product Status Update: Manage your products descriptions, images, attributes, title, etc. in OpenERP.
  8. Analytics: Receive advanced Business Intelligence for your eBay stores and combine them with information with other channels.
  9. High Volume Processing: Integrate with scanners and process batch printing of labels, picking & packing lists for processing large volumes of orders.

Bista Solutions is a leading OpenERP partner with many successful implementations in ecommerce and manufacturing. For information regarding implementing, integrating, customizing and migrating OpenERP please contact us on sales@BistaSolutions.com.

Click here to check video of eBay integration with OpenERP

About Bista Solutions:

Bista Solutions is a dynamic software company providing world-class business solutions to a wide range of enterprises. Bista Solutions has offices in US & Canada with a development center in India. The company has many years of expertise in analyzing the requirements of businesses and developing applications to meet their business needs.

About OpenERP:

OpenERP / Odoo is a complete web based ERP solution for Small and Midsized Enterprises, with more than 500+ modules available including CRM, BPM, etc. OpenERP also provides you with customizable reports, Dashboards and other utilities such as barcode tracking, inventory tracking, inventory management, fleet management, etc.

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To know more about this you can watch our video below. If you would like to implement this for your business, please send us a message or give us a call at 404-631-6219 (full list of international numbers here).

How to create Ad-Hoc reports in Odoo

A number of times clients ask us whether OpenERP has the capability to make Adhoc reports. It is very important for the client to have access to information which has been entered into the ERP and view it from a particular perspective. The base_report_creator module can be used to create powerful Adhoc reports, though it requires some level of technical expertise from the user to create the report – they should know the Object in the ERP, how they are interlinked and the fields etc.

The base_report_creator module which can be used for Adhoc reports
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The new option called “Custom Reports” which is created by this module

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Creating a new custom report by selecting the objects whose data need to be part of the report. Also a Menu option to access this custom report can be created from this page
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Specifying the fields which need to be displayed in the custom report and how to group them and whether to show them on the graph.
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The newly created custom report
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The report can also be shown as a Graph
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