Posterita History

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Who Are Behind Posterita?

The Birth of Posterita

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. Nietzsche
This quotation, I believe, sums up the whole history of Posterita. Please read on....

Frederick Tsang was part of the development team of the multi-award winner framework (JRisk) upon which leading banking modules are developed. [1]. Application Network was subsequently acquired by Reuters, which specializes in the business of trading upon real time information. After spending 3 years at Application Network in London, Fred decided to set up Kaizensoft in Mauritius to start his own project: a full web based accommodation marketplace, where renters and owners could contract out and rent places. Technically speaking, the project was a success! Still, Fred was not totally happy as he was convinced that somewhere there should be a framework upon which web applications could be developed at a much quicker pace and with more flexibility. The answer was Compiere! Shortly after the training, on the recommendation of JJ, a South African company UDI Group [2] (Derek Naidoo and Nathan Mariemuthu) approached Fred and his brother Alex to set up another company by the name of UDI Mauritius to work on building a web enabled DCS (Dealer Communication System) upon Compiere for one of the leading automobile company in South Africa. Once the project was about to finish, they started refusing making payments and sharing the revenues from the project as agreed. They managed to convince some developers at UDI Mauritius to come to Johannesburg, to steal and explain them how does the source code work. To our knowledge, in 2005, this was the largest Compiere implementation (in fact it was a SOA): 56 dealerships, 440 users and 22,000 items (vehicles and engines) sold online. After this major financial set back, in March 2006, Alex and Fred decided to set up another company by the name of Tamak ICT, which specialises in the development of verticals such as POS (Point of Sales), Webstore and collaboration management tool.
In January 2007, after much discussion with Adempiere's Council and a trip to Malaysia to meet Red1, Tamak ICT decided to: 1/ make all its plugins available as open source
2/ to change its name from Tamak ICT to Posterita.

Alexander Tsang
Posterita [3]

What's in a name?

Posterita, was derived from an early suggestion by red1: POSture. The idea was excellent in that it would include POS in it. Obviously posture.com was taken, and it was imperative that the following .com and .org were available. After playing with different Pos words. Positive, Possible, etc... we found posterity. Found an italian name for it, Posterita. Italian name seems to be a tradition in our community. Compiere, Adempiere, Compilo, Libero.
And there it was, we opted to change the name from Tamak ICT to Posterita. The websites were registered, together with the trademarks.

Logo

No logo has been finalised yet, we intend to make this a group effort where everyone can contribute their 2 cents on what posterita, should be like. Some say it should have a futuristic font, with a seed representing growth.

The company

Our Mission

To allow your company, to reach its full potential and to increase its competitive advantage through our tailor made, user friendly and innovative It solutions.

Our Business

To be a world class provider and designer of web applications and IT solutions, which allows us to deliver maximum added value to your business.

Our techniques

• Usage of Open Source
• Our expertise in state of the art technologies
• The simplification of the daily tasks and procedures of your business processes.

Our assets

• Dynamic, rigorous and competent business programmers,
• Our understanding of your business processes,
• Our significant investments in R&D,
• Our in-house quality procedures.

Our Values

• A philosophy based upon fairness and sharing.
• Principles anchored on responsibility and performance.
• Integrity and ethical values.

Sharing our knowledge and expertise with you, is not only in total coherence with our values but it also make Tamak ICT a reliable and efficient organization.

Features

POSterita is developed upon both ERP/CRM features (Adempiere/Compiere) and web technologies. From POS features and inventory management to advanced trade accounting, CRM and performance management, POSterita is the complete and ultimate solution to manage a retailing businesses with personal computers.
Beneath the appealing, easy to use web interface of Posterita plug-ins is a rock-solid foundation that is engineered for stability, reliability and performance and that is anchored upon the latest state of art Open Source technologies (Java, JSP, Web works, Struts, Adempiere, PostgreSQL, JfreeChart, iText, BIRT, Apache, Jboss, ActiveMQ, Axis, JUnit, JMeter, Linux, Joomla, MediaWiki, PhpBB, Eclipse.
The system is designed to be secure, reliable and compatible accross different platforms. Moreover, the web-client-server architecture also allows the simultaneous and real time management of multiple outlets or organizations with a single server.

Compatibility

• With any operating system
• With several web browsers
• With PCs and POS Hardware (Touch screen, barcode reader, thermal printer and cash drawers
• Single server support for multiple POS found in multiple outlets
• Complete control over all data

Centralised System Architecture

• Accessible anytime & anywhere
• Single database ensuring centralised, coherent and realt time data
• Single server support for multiple POS found in multiple outlets
• Complete control over all data

Retail POS Cash Sales

• Very quick under 5 seconds to scan a barcode and complete the order
• Smart product name and customer discovery fields
• Print receipts in various formats
• Multiple payment options and mixed payment supported (cash, card or cheques)
• Till and cash book management
• Support for customer returned orders
• Management of promotional offers and discounts

Retail POS Credit Sales

• Payment allocation for each customer
• Customer credit check beofre processing order
• Due date reports filtered by date and by customer
• Statement of account per customer
• Dunning

Performance Management

• Real time and reliable reports
• Orders tracking adn drill down
• Bar chart, pie chart, time series and tabular viewing of key statistics
• Executive analysis tools (sales, stock,etc...) in graphical formats
• Export facility to spreadsheets or csv format

Advanced Trade accounting

• Cost of goods sold
• Gross profit
• VAT and Tax Management

Customer relationship Management

• Unlimited creation of customers
• Customer fidelity card
• 360 view of customer that includes contact history and sale history drill down

Stock and Purchase Management

• Module allowing quick import of products from CSV fles
• Create and edit products
• Search product module
• Automatic barcode generator
• View material movement and stcok availability
• Inventory Control and adjustment
• Goods received and goods returned notes

Further Documentation

We have set up a wiki on our website, where we will make available the different materials we are using within the company. posterita wiki

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