Quote: Open source ERP - Vertex - Mark Alperin, COO
“I had lots of concern over the consolidation of the [ERP] industry and I felt locked in. We’ve grown because of our flexibility, and the primary motivation to go with open source for ERP was to continue to control our own destiny.
“Our implementation partner Transitional Data Services helped us accelerate our application development while reducing dependency on ERP vendors with an uncertain future.
"TDS was right on. By leveraging open source ERP, Vertex has been able to eliminate 30 to 50 percent of the custom coding nececessary and the direct access to the source code is very important for our ongoing application maintenance and development.”
Read more on CIO.com in "Is Open Source the Answer to ERP"
Mark Alperin
Vertex, Inc.
COO / CIO