Initial Releases of Mantle Business Artifacts and HiveMind Project Manager

Mantle Business Artifacts 0.5.0 is now available for download through GitHub here:

https://github.com/jonesde/mantle/releases/tag/release-0.5.0

HiveMind PM (Project Manager) 1.0.0 is now available here:

https://github.com/jonesde/HiveMind/releases/tag/release-1.0.0

It is exciting to release these first versions of these two projects. They represent the first significant body of business functionality based on Moqui Framework and make Moqui and Mantle an excellent alternative to Apache OFBiz and other open source ERP, CRM, and eCommerce open source projects and commercial products.

Mantle Business Artifacts 0.5.0

This is the initial release of Mantle Business Artifacts (version 0.5.0). It is based on Moqui Framework 1.3.2. This version covers procure to pay, order to cash, and work plan to cash processes including:

• Purchase and Sales Orders (for goods, services, materials, etc; POs for inventory and equipment/supplies/etc)
• Project, Task, and Request management with time and expense recording, billable/payable rates by project/task/client/worker/etc
• Incoming and Outgoing Invoices with a wide variety of item types and an XSL:FO template for print or email
• Automatic invoice generation for purchase orders (AP), sales orders (AR), project client time and expenses (AR), project vendor/worker time and expenses (AP)
• Payments, both manually recorded and automatic through payment processing interfaces; applying payments to invoices
• Fulfillment of sales orders (including basic picking and packing) and receiving of purchase orders
• Inventory management including issuance and receipt, and inventory reservation for sales orders
• Automated GL account posting of incoming and outgoing invoices, outgoing and incoming payments, payment application, and inventory receipt and issuance
• General GL functionality for time periods, validation of transactions to post, time period closing
• Balance Sheet and Income Statement reports (and basic posted amounts and account balance by time period summaries)

The automated tests are a great example of functionality and a good reference for where data ends up. They include complete flows with service calls and data validation for purchase orders (procure to pay), sales orders (order to cash), and billable projects with client and vendor/worker invoice/payment (work plan to cash).

HiveMind PM 1.0.0

HiveMind PM version 1.0.0 is the first official release. It is based on Moqui Framework 1.3.2 and Mantle Business Artifacts 0.5.0. This initial version of HiveMind Project Manager includes:

• Vendor, Internal Org, Client, Worker, and other User administration
• Rate setup for client billing and vendor/worker payout by project, worker, etc.
• Project management
• Milestone management and planning
• Task management (hierarchical, associated with project and optionally milestone)
• Flexible task searching and all-in-one task summary
• Request management, including creating tasks to address the request
• Time entry by task
• Expense entry by project
• Invoices and payments to pay vendor/worker for time and expenses
• Invoices and payments to bill clients and receive payment
• Invoice PDF
• GL posting for invoices and payments
• Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and posted balance/summary reports
• Wiki with attachments for requirements and designs, linked to tasks and requests
• Consolidated searching across projects, tasks, requests, and wiki
• Simple email notifications for task, wiki, etc updates

The HiveMind-1.0.0-src.zip and HiveMind-1.0.0.zip include Moqui Framework and Mantle Business Artifacts and are ready to go. The HiveMind-1.0.0.zip file is built and has a Derby database preloaded with demo data, so just run it (gradle run, ant run, or java -jar moqui-1.3.2.war) and in your browser go to:

http://localhost:8080/apps/hm/