Re: Workday

2008-01-16 Thread David E Jones
Vikrant, I agree with you totally about what is good in Workday, ie the comprehensive system approach. That is definitely something we're trying to do with OFBiz. The fact that it's an ERP system without a focus on accounting is (right now anyway) somewhat painfully evident ba

RE: Workday

2008-01-16 Thread Vikrant.Rathore
Hi David, Thanks for the technical feedback on workday. What I was more intrigued by them was not the internal architecture but the way they took the approach for building a system from business process perspective and able to answer when, where, how and why of a particular transaction and

Re: Workday

2008-01-16 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Thanks for this technical insight and interesting comment, David ! Jacques From: "David E Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Out of curiosity I looked into Workday a little more. It sounds like they are using a VERY object-oriented architecture, so much so that they only have 3

Re: Workday

2008-01-16 Thread David E Jones
Out of curiosity I looked into Workday a little more. It sounds like they are using a VERY object-oriented architecture, so much so that they only have 3 database tables and map all objects to them in an automated way. This may seem really nice from a development perspective, but I&#x

RE: Workday

2008-01-15 Thread Vikrant.Rathore
, 2008 3:10 AM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: Workday I would be really interested in hearing more from Vikrant about what he likes about Workday. If you're listening in Vikrant, please do write more about what parts of the Workday approach you like. For my part I have looked into

RE: Workday

2008-01-15 Thread Vikrant.Rathore
Hi David, I haven't used workday extensively was just intrigued by their concept of the way they structured the application in a relatively simple design based on how people work. If you read the book and see the way they applied those concepts is quite good. But I really doubt still

Re: Workday

2008-01-15 Thread Enrique Ruibal A.
Hi, I just wanted to point out that Workday is based on the REA Model developed William E. McCarthy, it's a very straightforward approach to design and implment business processes, you can check out the excelent book by Hruby on this, please check this link: http://www.squidoo.com/REA

Re: Workday

2008-01-15 Thread David E Jones
I would be really interested in hearing more from Vikrant about what he likes about Workday. If you're listening in Vikrant, please do write more about what parts of the Workday approach you like. For my part I have looked into it a little bit and I think their approach is great.

Workday

2008-01-11 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Hi all, I recently had an exchange with Vikrant Rathore about new accounting efforts. I think it is worth to be reported, here it is Vikrant : Have a look at http://www.workday.com/ I would prefer to implement finance in their way not the traditional ERP way. Me : What is so specific in their