COMPIERE 3.2 OVERVIEW

SUMMARY

Compiere 3.2 is a release that adds additional functional enhancements and stability to the web user interface of the leading open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) solution. New enhancements available in Compiere 3.2 Primarily include: Warehouse Management, Enhanced Business View Layer Capabilities, and Value Assignment.

Certain features in Compiere 3.2 require a Compiere Professional Edition subscription.

Compiere products may include certain prototype features and beta functionality as indicated in their respective user interfaces with a beta checkbox. We advise our customers not to implement these on their production systems. These are intended only for evaluation as beta and are not covered under Compiere support.

DESCRIPTION

The steps and procedures covered in this user guide are intended to help users learn the functionality of the Compiere, which includes but is not limited to the latest features introduced in Compiere 3.2.

AUDIENCE

This guide is designed for Compiere Business Partners and Customers. It also provides information for the current Compiere administrators planning to install or migrate (upgrade) to Compiere 3.2.

PREVIOUS INSTALLATIONS

You can download Compiere 3.2 from the Compiere Web Store. The migration tool will bring you up directly to Compiere 3.2 plus all the cumulative fixes included in the service packs without having to migrate to an intermediate release.

RECOMMENDED INFRASTRUCTURE

Sun JDK 6 Update 5 or Later - (SDK not just JRE)
Database Oracle XE, Oracle10gR2, Oracle 11g or EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Adv. Server 8.3.
Tip: It is mandatory to use a Unicode character set.
Database approved Linux Operating System, Windows 2003 or Windows XP
Disk Space: > 5 GB (includes database)
Swap Space: > 1GB
Memory: > 512 MB - Recommended: > 1 GB
TCP/IP connection and Internet access
Firefox Browser 3.0 is recommended for the Web User Interface.

PROCESS TO LOG SUPPORT REQUESTS FOR COMPIERE 3.2

To ensure timely service for all future issues, Compiere strongly recommends that you submit all new cases into Compiere's Case Management system. Start logging support requests by following the steps described in Support Requests on our web page.