The Web Business Suite (WBS), is a full function, cross channel, multi company web ordering portal with an Anonymous User Web Site, Wholesale or on Account Ordering, Salesman and Sales Rep Ordering, CSR and Will Call Ordering, and Affiliate Ordering.
WBS works best for Midrange, Entrepreneurial Manufacturers, High Value Add Distributors, and Rental Companies who have multiple channels and engage their Web Users and Customers in Conversations, Warranty and Repair Work, or need integration and customization to legacy systems.
There are simpler Store Front and Mall systems out there if you do not need Web Applications.
Click here to visit the Web Business Suite Project on Ubuntu's LaunchPad and join the community.
September 2010 - Sales Portal and Information Portal for Sales Portal Release
We have done a mid-cycle release (10.05.02) of the Sales Portal and Information Portal for Sales Portal (IPSP). We added and enhanced a number of Commission, Revenue, and Forecast features, as well as, added reports for the new stuff in the IPSP. Note, the Sales Portal and IPSP changes will be included in the Ubuntu PPA Release 10.11 scheduled for November 2010. The updated WAR files can be dowloaded on Sourceforge.net. For detail lists of all the updates included in these releases, please visit the Sales Portal 10.05.02 Release Page and the IPSP 10.05.02 Release Page.
July 2010 - New Web Business Suite Release
We have just gotten our new release (10.05) of the Web Business Suite out the took. A little later than we wanted, but its ready. But we have really super news. The Web Business Suite is now available as a PPA under Ubuntu. So apt-get and everything installs. That means all 5 portals, Order, Sales, Data Miigration, and both Information Portals. This should really simplify your installations (which was the point). Source Forge is also updated for each individual portal. Also we have the Web Business Suite up on Canonical's Launchpad and the source code is also available there. Here is the link to Launchpad. You can add bugs and blueprints for new ideas and check the status of existing bugs and blueprints. The latest release notes are available from the menu on the left.
The WBS is a mash-up of 5 our Free Open Source web applications:
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Order Portal - Order Portal is available for free download on LaunchPad. The Order Portal is center piece of the (WBS). It is a cross channel, multi company eCommerce portal with an Anonymous User Web Site, Wholesale or on Account Ordering, Salesman and Sales Rep Ordering, CSR and Will Call Ordering, and Affiliate Ordering. Order Portal allows businesses to deliver dynamic content over the web. Content can be items for sale, information items, or custom pages. All content dynamically generates spider friendly urls for each page which make it easy for the search engines to index an Order Portal site. Products can have multiple pictures, documents and videos linked. Products can related items and parts for up selling and cross selling. Products can have configurable options which a customer can select via drop down. Each configurable component can have a picture and pricing. Payment options are flexible including PayPal, Credit Card processing through PayPal's PayFlow merchant accounts, buy now buttons for Google and Paypal, Check, Cash and on account for existing customers.
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Information Portal for Order Portal is available for free download on LaunchPad. Information Portal for Order Portal (IPOP) is the real-time reporting dashboard for the Order Portal. The IPOP is not a report writer and is designed to sit above the WBS and deliver consistent real time information, with security, to any browser based device over the Internet.
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Sales Portal - Sales Portal is available for free download on LaunchPad. The Sales Portal is a Web Conversation, Community Building, New Account Sales, and Customer Relationship Management system. Web Business Suite and Sales Portal works best for entrepreneurial and midrange customers with multiple channels either in support of Web Based Conversations and Orders or for serious outbound sales. Sales Portal can accept prospects through CSV upload or through an automated interface. The automated interfaces work via the Data Migration Portal (DMP is part of the WBS). Also with use DMP for Round Trip Email functions in Sales Portal, Request Responder, or Auto Email Responder aimed at giving you an advantage over your competition.
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Information Portal for Sales Portal is available for free download on LaunchPad. Information Portal for Sales Portal (IPSP) is the real-time reporting dashboard for the Sales Portal. The IPSP is not a report writer and is designed to sit above the WBS and deliver consistent real time information, with security, to any browser based device over the Internet.
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Data Migration Portal is available for free download on LaunchPad. The Data Migration Portal (DMP) was designed as the primary means of moving data between the WBS Portals as well as between other portals and legacy systems. It is flexible and can be easily adapted to other systems and data formats. DMP contains EDI components. It can accept EDI formatted files, which it reformats for download into a legacy application. It can extract data from the WBS or a legacy system and format into an EDI transaction (810/880 Invoice). DMP also contains extensive interfaces with legacy systems (especially VAI System 2000, JDEdwards, Great Plains, and DMAS).
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WBS is a J2EE Web applications and were developed with the Eclipse IDE using the MyEclipse package, unit test are JUnit, the regression tests are in Selenium and the reports were developed using Jasper Reports Performance testing is done with JMeter.
WBS is distributed under the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license.
