Developer: Terry Vaughn

latest release version: 4.3

latest release date: 2020-09-06

programming language: Java programming language

operating system: Cross-Platform

genre: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Accounting, Personal Finance

license: MIT License

website: www.blueseer.com

'''BlueSeer ERP''' is a Free open source ERP software package. It was designed to meet the needs of the manufacturing community for an ERP system that is easily customizable and extendable while providing generic functionality that is typically observed in most manufacturing environments.
BlueSeer is released for free use under the MIT License. The application and source code are available for download at github.com. The development of BlueSeer began in 2005, and the latest 'stable' release of version 4.3 was released on Sept 9th 2020.

Functionality

BlueSeer provides modules for the following generic set of business concepts :

Double Entry General Ledger
Cost Accounting
Accounts Receivable Processing and Aging
Accounts Payable Processing and Aging
PayRoll
Inventory Control
Job Tracking
Lot Traceability
Order Management
Service Order and Quoting Management
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
UCC Label Generation
Materials Resource Planning (MRP)
Human Resources (HR)

Technology

BlueSeer ERP is written entirely in Java. The application is a non-web based desktop application that relies heavily on the Java Swing widget toolkit/library. There are currently two database engines available for BlueSeer. For single client deployment, The relational database SQLite is used for it's deployment ease and server-less design. For multi-client deployment scenarios, the open-source relational database MySQL is used as the back-end database server. MySQL was chosen for it's popularity and excellent performance reviews.
BlueSeer is a menu-driven application. It's "molecular composition" is a collection of Java Swing JPanel widgets. Each business function, i.e. Order Entry, Item Master Maintenance, etc is a stand-alone JPanel widget. Each JPanel widget is loaded at runtime using Reflection to 'inject' the JPanel into the JFrame on user demand. JPanel class names are stored in the database and associated with menu options which are further associated with user permissions. This archtitecture increases the capability of customization and extension by engaging BlueSeer as a Desktop Application Framework. Applications independent of the core software can be quickly deployed given the menu/class management and permissions functionality that's built into the BlueSeer framework.
Current development interests are the inclusion of other open source database packages for the back-end server.

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