Here at Enterprise Concept we are very fond of open source solutions and we spend a lot of time searching and analyzing open source software. Faced with the task of finding an open source BPM solution we have stumbled upon Bonita Open Solution.
Bonita is our favorite open BPM due to its' ease of use and implementation and vast palette of out of the box connectors. The business processes design is compliant with the BPMN standard and there is virtually no delay from design to running your processes.

The solution is not hardware exhaustive and is perfect for automating the business processes of small to midsized companies.

The solutions that we build using this tool are based on the new tendency of technical democratization in the BPM area and they allow the optimization of business processes along with all of the management components:
-    Business process modeling.
-    Engineering and re-engineering.
-    Automation and standardization.
-    Integration and enterprise architecture.

Before the Information Age most of the business decisions were taken based on intuition. Nowadays we can't talk about an efficient performance management without using resources specialized in data analysis.

More and more information is available, sometimes from different sources and formats, which means generating good reports and analyses can be difficult without a business intelligence (BI) system. The methods and concepts used in BI can improve the process of taking decisions, no matter the type, tactical or strategical.

The decision support system is an analytical application that helps the management to structure the available data in a more efficient and logical manner. Performance management systems can create ad-hoc analyses, as well as more sophisticated reports in order to measure performance in a specific time frame. Being an interactive system, the user can access and use more easily the available data.

One of the most popular business intelligence web platforms is Pentaho. This solution consists of various tools that can realize interactive graphical analyses and charts, reports of different complexities, KPIs, data integration from various sources and formats, data mining capabilities for the prediction of future performance.

Pentaho can use the data from a variety of different sources, while the reports and analyses can be easily created in a web application. Data can be explored, transformed and integrated in a graphical, intuitive environment, depending on the specific business models required. The big advantages of this solutions are the high level on adaptability and flexibility, the easy way of accessing data, the interactive way of creating reports and analyses, no matter of the end user type, analysts or management. Pentaho can be used for a broad range of activities, such as budget analysis, investments or products efficiency, or business opportunity analysis.

Using a project methodology is essential when the scale of the project expands, complexity being difficult to manage without one. Team members need a common project language in order to spot problems early and track progress easily. In a well managed environment it's important to have a clear set of rules and norms, activities and milestones, otherwise confusion and misunderstandings can lead to the exceeding of budgets and deadlines.

To avoid confusion it is required to use project management best practices and standards, such as the PRINCE2 Methodology (PRojects IN Controlled Environments). PRINCE2 is a standard used extensively and widely recognized in the private sector. Some of it's key features include effective risk management, formal recognition of responsibilities within the project, early warning of problems, active involvement of users and stakeholders.

Projects fail due to poor management, insufficient definition of required outcomes, insufficient control over progress, lack of communication with stakeholders and other interested parties, lack of quality control or change control.

A good project management method addresses all of these problems, which is exactly what the Enterprise Concept Methodology does.

Methorator is a web based application dedicated to project managers and their team members that allows the creation of project management documents in a safe and simple way, making them easy to deliver and approve.

The methodology is a connector between the client and the supplier, defined and structured according to the client's needs. This tool requires setting the boundaries of all resources: human, financial and deadlines.

Every project has five main stages, which are automatically created at the same time as the project. Simultaneously, the mandatory project deliverables, the documents, are created and attached to their correspondent stages. Documents contain the compulsory titles that are characteristic to each one of them. This makes the manager’s job easier in managing documents. Documents can be saved as new versions for a better tracking of changes. Access to documents is granted through email invitations on behalf of the project manager.

Organizations are structured environments in which processes and actions have precise purposes, defined by management. In real life we have all the time the chance to manage projects. In the same way, a company has an essential business element, the Project Management concept.

The methodology of Project Management has become very popular due to his flexibility and applicability approach regarded to almost any project, no matter how complex it is, or which are his characteristics (industry, product or services). This way of organizing a company's business allows us to manage resources reasonably and, which is more important, to keep constant focus on the client and the product, which largely increases the ability for a company to be successful.

Project Management System implemented by Enterprise Concept is dedicated to those companies that focus on the success of their projects. The success of the project depends on the project team's ability to control the available resources (money, manpower, equipment, facilities, materials, and information) of the project in terms of time, cost, and performance.

The platform's main modules are: Companies, Projects, Tasks, Calendar, Forum, Contacts, Files, Resources, Links, Reports, Search, Users and platform administration.

The advantages of using a Web-based system to manage your projects are:

• No Software to Install… Just Browse!
• Centralized data improves everyone’s productivity and effectiveness
• Optimize communication within your team
• Control and evaluate the entire activity of the company due to the complex reporting module.
• High accessibility
• Easy to learn and use, due to the platform’s intuitive and interactive design

Our customer relationship management platform is a web-based application created to satisfy the needs of small and large companies.

Benefits:

• Contacts management - allows you to keep in one place all your business contacts (current clients, potential clients or former clients);
• Records all interactions between your business and customers;
• Better understanding of the customer's needs and their behaviour;
• Opportunities management in order to find new customers;
• Manage new opportunities to expand your market;
• Allow more people to work simultaneously interacting with each other.

With our platform you can create campaigns with Multi-Channel Marketing and Statistics, manage opportunities, contacts and clients or other activities such as Email Marketing, Time Management etc.

Features
You can schedule meetings, conversations, activities, projects, emails, mass emails, for the current user or another user.
The program is very flexible offering a very efficient organization of activities of one or more companies.
The application is real time, warning logged users of their tasks, scheduled acording to a predefined time frame.
Companies will be assisted in obtaining a higher profit by using this CRM

Can be used as:

• Organizer, accessible from anywhere, anytime;
• Project Manager;
• Accounting System;
• Sales Coordination.

Marketing Management platform is recommended to companies for e-mail marketing, newsletters and mail services.

Functionalities
The platform is composed of several individual functionality or modules. All modules are interconnected and work together to achieve one of the marketing objectives: to create and evaluate, quickly and efficiently, the marketing campaigns.

There are three primordial areas to send a newsletter. As soon as relevant data were introduced, the platform is ready to send e-mails.

• The newsletter list: for every newsletter, the company must create a list of persons and their email addresses.
• Receivers:  the database contains customers, their profiles (predefined and customizable fields) and email addresses.
• The process of sending newsletters: after the newsletter text is created, it is sent to the persons that are in the predefined lists and the results are evaluated, through statistics module.

Among other functionality, used to facilitate the newsletter creation, to check for accuracy and flexibility, to assess responses and to facilitate database management, we can list:

• Define target groups: the target group is composed by applying a set of filters to the entire database.
• Create and use the templates: many newsletters follow the same model. In order to reduce to a minimum, both work and time needed to create a newsletter, the platform facilitate the usage of templates and predefined text modules.
• Generate statistics: to check the success of newsletters and to plan further newsletters, isusefull to have a set of information about customers, their responses and private interests. The platform provides the opportunity to directly compare the results of the different newsletters.

Our E-Learning Platform allows teachers (professors, lecturers...) to create and administrate courses through an internet browser.
Every course has attached a set of tools that allows the description of the course, creation of the agenda, announcements management, documents and links management, development of exercises and the view of learning path, assignment management. Also, for a good communication between professors and students the application has the following modules: forums, groups, wikis and chat functionality.

The students have access to the following pages:  course list, enroll to a new course, remove course enrollment, see my agenda, modify my profile.
The professors have access to the following pages: the course Home page, administering a courses main settings, the course statistics, deleting a course website, the tool list settings.

The main functionalities of using our Web Based Course Management System are:

• Write a course description
• Publish documents in any format (text, PDF, HTML, video...)
• Administer public and private forums
• Develop learning paths
• Create groups of students
• Prepare online exercises
• Manage an agenda with tasks and deadlines
• Publish announcements (also by e-mail)
• Propose assignments to be handed in online
• See the statistics of the users activity
• Use the wiki to write collaborative documents