12 Free and Open Source ERP Business Software Solutions. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is most crucial for a business and they really help business to streamline multisite environment with unified processes across locations.
There are so many proprietary and commercial ERP solutions available like, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle e-Business etc. But, very few know that there is a plethora of Free or Low Cost Open Source solutions that are extremely competent as well as with proper customer support just like the proprietary ones. Here is a list of 12 such Open Source ERP/CRM solutions that are either cross platform or browser/web based so that the solutions run on any platforms. All of them have Free versions available without support and some of them offer paid support as optional. A survey at Compiere suggests that up to 60% of the ERP setup and maintenance cost can be avoided with its commercial versions.