credativ international GmbH Open Source for Business visits xTuple headquarters

Danielle Kerner: Welcome to xTuple, and if we can start by you guys each telling us who you are or who you are with.

 

David Brauner: Yea, I am David, I am from credativ Germany. So I am the executive assistant from Germany; so we are formed in 1999, so yea and I worked for credativ for ten years.

 

Danielle: Ten years, wow.

 

Carsten Meskes: My name is Carsten Meskes. I was employed by credativ recently, half a year ago. And I am also the executive assistant, but my work is just for the international part of credativ. So I am basically doing project management for the international business.

 

Danielle: So, what does credativ do?

 

David: We are a service and support company in Germany, only for the open source market.

 

Carsten: Yes, we do support. So, because open source tools do not have the typical support that any proprietary software has, we basically do that and do all of the main care support. So if the customer has any problem with his open source tools, his open source systems, his open source anything, we go in and help him say “ok, that’s a problem, we help you fix it.”

 

Danielle: You are embarking on an implementation of xTuple for your company. Tell us a little bit why you chose to partner with xTuple, why xTuple is the ERP that you selected to help run your operations.

 

Carsten: Um, to get into that I think to do that the best way to start is with a little bit of history here. Because our CEO did; he also partnered up with xTuple on several occasions, and he suggested us trying out to contact you guys, because we are in a dire need for an ERP system right now. So we got setup, and we did try to initiate contact. And well - first of all - we tried to write down all of our needs and all of our requirements and then hand them to you to try if you can…

 

Danielle: ...modify it to meet your specific needs?

 

Carsten: ...encompass every and all of our requirements, yes!

 

Danielle: So that’s kind of a neat aspect to your implementation - in particular - is you are a service-based company that is implementing xTuple ERP with some very specific requirements ... in terms of how you want to manage those projects inside of the application and how you will communicate with your customers about the status of those projects. So that’s one of the unique opportunities with xTuple -

certainly - is that out-of-the-box, it’s a very complete system, and then you have the ability - should you want - to make those enhancements you can. So, any additional thoughts? You have been here for a few days, what is your perspective of xTuple as a company and as a product?

 

Carsten: Um, I personally do like, well it starts with the building.

 

Danielle: You like the building?

 

Carsten: I do like your office building, being setup in an old bank. It has just a unique flare that I enjoy. I also like how leisure[ly] everyone is here ...it's just really easy, fun. and enjoyable what I’ve learned.

 

Danielle: Well, good. You agree?

 

David: Yea!

 

Danielle: Haha! We’re great, you agree we’re great. So really this is your first endeavor with xTuple. You haven’t used the application a lot. You’ve - as a partner though - you’ve worked on some projects around the world, and I think we are all looking forward to engaging in more of those over time

 

Carsten: Certainly!

 

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