Chapter 1. ADempiere Installation

In order to establish a new company or monitor an existing company, we should take into consideration every aspect of the company. One aspect is to make the entire company operation run effectively.

If we are planning to implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems (or any other Computer Automation System) for our company, then we will come across many solutions or options for commercial and open source ERP packages.

Moreover, for a small or medium-sized company, implementing a commercial or proprietary ERP system will be costly. A huge amount of money will be spent on both application and consultancy. So, the question is—"Is there an alternative to fulfill our company's needs and run the operations effectively at an affordable price?"

ADempiere (http://www.adempiere.com/wiki) is an open source ERP application that is community driven, evolving, and that provides amazing features such as (but not limited to) purchasing, material receipts, sales, shipment, inventory, simple manufacturing, advanced accounting, and so on.

These should be more than enough to cover a small or medium-sized company's needs.

In this chapter, you will be introduced to the following:

• Hardware and operating system requirements for ADempiere

• Obtaining ADempiere and the prerequisite applications

• Installing and setting up PostgreSQL database

• Installing and running ADempiere

We will start our activities after learning about the hardware and operating system requirements.