Commercial Lighting and Electric has contracted with Internet Business Consulting Services Corporation (IBCScorp) to assist with its OpenERP implementation.

Commercial Lighting and Electric will use OpenERP’s CRM, project management and accounting modules to help streamline and improve the profitability of its business.

They chose OpenERP CRM over other competitive products like SugarCRM and Salesforce because it is flexible and can easily be adapted to their needs, but also because it is tied in with their project management and accounting modules requiring either less data entry, or less customization which would be required to integrate accounting with Sugar CRM and or Salesforce.

Being integrated with the project management allows the project managers to see any details, documents, e-mails or other information necessary to better manage their projects.  Project management is a very important part of Commercial Lighting and Electrics business.  Because the work flow can be managed and modified inside of OpenERP, Commercial Lighting and Electric will be able to implement their project management process how it best works for them.

Using general and analytical accounts, Commercial Lighting and Electric should be able to manage the cost’s associated with each job more effectively knowing if each job was profitable and making sure it is completed on time.  Migrating from Quickbooks to Openerp will give them advantages of having a completely integrated platform running their business rather than having accounting on the side as an additional thing that needs done.

It is expected that the OpenERP implementation will be completed over three months period of time.