Below are the leading development initiatives at Compiere for 2008. We are sharing this information to assist in your internal Compiere planning efforts. The initiatives are all important and appear in no particular order:

-          Manufacturing
-            Solution for the Discrete Manufacturing Industry
-          Warehouse Management
-            Logistics Management solution for multiple warehouses
-          Decision Support
-            Third Party Reporting tools integration (JasperReports, Crystal Reports)
-            New Decision Support and Analytics features
-            End User Reporting flexibility with Business Views
-          Performance & Usability
-            Usability improvements in the overall install and upgrade experience
-            Continued scalability, performance and stability improvements
-            Several new usability enhancements for the Web user interface
-          Platform & Infrastructure
-            New Infrastructure for developing extensions and modules over Compiere
-            Numerous usability enhancements to the core dictionary and platform
-            Upgraded modern technology stack (Java 6, Jboss 4.2.2, Oracle 11g, Postgres Plus 8.3, Firefox 3)

I want to thank the large number of Compiere Partners, customers and community members who provided input to the formulation of these initiatives. I also want to acknowledge that Compiere's market success has enabled us to expand the engineering resources at work inside Compiere. It is because of this success that we are able to concurrently address multiple significant development initiatives.

In the coming days and weeks we'll provide additional detail on each initiative along with the supporting product release plan. You'll find all of this information right here in the Compiere Community Wiki.