Sysfore named Openbravo Partner of the Year!
Leading Openbravo Partner, Sysfore Technologies awarded as the Partner of the Year 2011 – India.

Bangalore, India – January 19, 2012 – Sysfore Technologies, a specialist provider of business web solutions and IT Outsourcing services, has been named Partner of the Year 2011 (India) by Openbravo. Openbravo, the agile ERP company, announced the winners of its “Partner of the Year 2011” awards recognized for technical excellence in their geographic region throughout the year and for helping customers achieve low cost, real business results with Openbravo’s ERP Platform. The awards recognize implementation partners from Openbravo’s world-wide network of more than 100 partners in 40 countries.

”2011 was Openbravo’s most successful year in company history, and this success is a direct reflection of the dedication and commitment to customer success from our global partner network”, said Bartolí, VP Channels at Openbravo. “With so many satisfied customers and excellent partners, selecting the ‘Partner of the Year’ was more challenging than ever. We congratulate all the award winners for their contributions and the shared success of our companies and look forward to an exciting 2012.”

Sysfore a specialist Openbravo partner, offers both enterprise and SaaS variants of Openbravo ERP, bringing to market a serious, viable and cost effective alternative to mainstream commercial ERPs. In 2011, Sysfore continued to improve its Openbravo offerings and service infrastructure to serve its customers across different industries and regions. In 2012, Sysfore launched its first solution on Openbravo - for Human Resource and Payroll Management on the Openbravo Exchange. For manufacturing industry clusters in South India, Sysfore now offers customizable SaaS variant of Openbravo ERP, raising the benchmark for the industry. Sysfore also embarked on a journey towards Retail industry vertical specialization with the launch of its Integrated Retail Solutions that include core components to manage Store, Merchandise and eCommerce operations, easily extendable to components to automate Financial Management & Accounting and Human Resources & Payroll.

Finally, Sysfore launched its Middle East office in Abu Dhabi in 2011 offering open source Openbravo ERP Implementation services for Retail, Distribution and Discrete Manufacturing for Small and Medium Businesses.

Ajith George, Director-Projects of Sysfore says, “It’s heartening to receive recognition for our efforts in pushing forward Openbravo ERP as a serious alternative for enterprise software in our regional markets of India and the Middle East. Working with Openbravo has been a pleasure, and their partner friendly approach and support ecosystem has helped us deliver value in the highly competitive ERP space. With the new Openbravo 3 release in early 2011, its rich functional footprint, appealing user interface and compelling advantages in terms of cost-benefit value, we see a rich world of opportunities especially with the small and medium sized enterprises in our markets.”

Sysfore launches Human Resources & Payroll Module on the Openbravo Exchange
Leading Openbravo Partner, Sysfore Technologies launches its Human Resources and Payroll Module on the Openbravo Exchange. Sysfore Technologies offers open source Openbravo ERP Implementation services for Retail, Distribution and Discrete Manufacturing for Small and Medium Businesses.

Bangalore, India – November 29, 2011 – Sysfore, a leading India based Openbravo Partner, launched its first commercial product offering - the Human Resource and Payroll Management Module on the Openbravo Exchange. The Openbravo Exchange is the official marketplace to find solutions for the leading open source Openbravo ERP Platform. The Exchange lists production-grade applications/modules and services that extend the use of Openbravo Professional Edition. These modules are available as a commercial offering for anybody implementing an ERP solution based on Openbravo.

Sysfore’s Human Resource and Payroll Management Module is an add-on solution to Openbravo. Extremely user-friendly with as many as 50 additional user interface screens, the Module helps in managing employee information and assists in processing payroll. Monthly attendance and payroll can be processed and necessary accounting entries can be automatically processed according to pre-set rules. Employee reports can be generated for specified parameters. An employee user interface is also available as part of the Module. Functionality includes detailed employee records, leave management, time & attendance management, payroll management, extensive configuration options, including provisions to import employee information and attendance in bulk from third party systems. The Module is Openbravo certified as production-ready and works on Openbravo Professional version 3.0. Pricing for the HR & Payroll Module starts at US$ 1500 for a 25 concurrent user license, and US$2900 for an unlimited concurrent user license. More information is listed on the Openbravo Exchange.

Openbravo is the world’s leading open source ERP platform and is fourth time winner of InfoWorld 2011 Best of Open Source Application, “Bossie” Award. Barcelona based Openbravo is an agile ERP company, whose ERP software has implementations across the globe and is considered as a credible, cost effective alternate to existing mainstream ERPs.

"The launch of Sysfore Human Resource and Payroll Module on the Openbravo Exchange is further validation of Sysfore's capabilities in customizing the Openbravo platform to deliver additional value to our customers and the larger Openbravo community. With a set of well defined features for the Human Resource function in any organization, the Module helps fill an important gap in the Openbravo Professional Edition feature set. Sysfore will continue to enhance the functionality and provide support to all users of the Module. Customers will also benefit greatly, as the Module significantly reduces costs and time to implementation on the Openbravo platform, “said Ajith George, Director of Projects at Sysfore.

Sysfore serves Small and Medium sized businesses in the region looking to implement ERP. The main focus is on offering Openbravo ERP for Retail, Distribution, Discrete Manufacturing and Services companies in the region.

Sysfore has several Openbravo implementations under its belt, having successfully delivered implementations in Manufacturing, Retail, Hospitality, Distribution, Construction and Services sectors. With a large team of functional, technical and project management experts based out of Bangalore, India, and many years experience implementing Openbravo, Sysfore delivers a high degree of local customer engagement at low cost using the offshore development model.

Openbravo Selected as InfoWorld 2011 Best of Open Source Application Award ‘Bossie’ Fourth Time in Five Years Recognition reinforces Sysfore’s Openbravo Service Offerings in India & the Middle East

Bangalore, India – October 10th, 2011 – Sysfore’s partner, Openbravo, the agile ERP company, has been named by InfoWorld as one of the ‘Best of Open Source Applications’, popularly known as the ‘Bossie’ award. InfoWorld’s Bossies honor the best open source software for business. The InfoWorld Test Center works to identify the most promising and cost-effective products available to IT organizations.

InfoWorld described Openbravo by stating: “Openbravo rides Version 3 to a repeat Bossie Award. With the new version, the company has done a nice job of cleaning up the user interface and workspaces. Data sources and app hooks are more seamlessly connected, vastly improving ramp-up time. A more modular framework for plugging in sales, finance, warehouse, and purchasing functionality paves the way for faster adoption of these functions as future requirements demand. You’ll find good tools for plugging in users, too, thanks to role-based access controls and custom dashboards. And finally, a variety of deployment paths (including the Amazon cloud) make it that much easier to get started. With the recent opening of offices stateside (San Francisco), Openbravo has helped allay concerns regarding support and sustainability going forward”.

Openbravo 3, launched in February 2011, introduced the concept of ‘Agile ERP’ to a software category known historically for bloat and cost overruns. Openbravo’s Agile ERP approach is a significant departure from mainstream ERP, which forces businesses to over-pay for massive, yet inflexible systems. Unlike today’s conventional ERP, organizations can deploy Openbravo in as little as two weeks, and then add modular functionality as the needs of their business evolve.

Sysfore is a specialist Openbravo partner in India, and offers different flavors of Openbravo implementations including, traditional ERP implementations within the company firewall, and for the first time in India & the Middle East - Openbravo ERP Software as a Service or ‘SaaS’.

“In the Open source ERP space, Openbravo focuses on constantly enhancing solutions, and feature sets. We especially appreciate the efforts put in by the product & technology teams in making Openbravo's user interface one of the best among ERP products. It is no surprise that Openbravo has won this award again this year, and for the 4th time”, says Ajith George, Director of Projects at Sysfore.

Sysfore’s Bobby Varghese, VP - Marketing & Customer Engagement said, “Sysfore takes pride in being an Openbravo partner offering services in India and Middle East and bringing to market a serious, viable and cost effective alternative to mainstream commercial ERP solutions. We look forward to a long term successful relationship with Openbravo in providing ERP consulting and implementation services to small and medium businesses”.