Decide on JDE alternative

[jakepeyser]

Ad-hoc

As our access to JD Edwards has been postponed, we need to consider alternatives to using JDE as our back-end ERP system. The following options are on the table so far:

• Odoo
• SAP ERP

This issue will be used for our discussion around this selection process and feasibility of using either service.

[l2fprod]

some more alternatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ERP_software_packages#Free_and_open-source_ERP_software

[jakepeyser]

@shenybluemix @uwefassnacht: any response from your SAP contacts?

[uwefassnacht]

No, none yet. Will follow up with them.

[shenybluemix]

I have got some updates:    - SAP S/4 HANA which is the SAP flagship ERP solution has the SaaS offering now.  There is an instance called "IDES" based SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Package 7 should have some data we need -> Not 100% sure since my experiences in SAP is very technical not business application focus   https://go.sap.com/cmp/oth/crm-s4hana/s4hana-on-premise.html   I have already register a S/4 HANA Trail account it is only for 14 days and it requires an AWS account.    

• SAP Business ByDesign is another SaaS offering targeting SME.  I am checking this in parallel 

[jakepeyser]

ok, but remember we are not considering their SaaS offerings, we only want on-prem versions for our scenario

[jakepeyser]

We are engaged with Secure Gateway and SAP teams around using an existing SAP ERP instance on the SAP test network. Details from last conversation

[jakepeyser]

SAP access received and connection details here. Working on integration going forward