CyberOptic Group
Press Release
September 24, 2008

West Palm Beach, FL September 21, 2008 – Florida-based systems integrator CyberOptic Group, LLC (CyOp) announced today the first US Partner installation of OpenbravoERP with significant immediate benefits realized by the client.

CyOp specializes in the development and implementation of robust Internet-based technologies that drive revenues to the bottom line of small businesses. CyOp was contacted several months ago by a revolutionary new skincare products manufacturer to develop a software application that would enable efficient management of the client’s rapidly expanding business.

In performing research to determine the best options available, CyOp discovered OpenbravoERP, a fast growing and full-featured open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software application from European-based Openbravo, S.L.

CyOp proposed and implemented a solution that combined OpenbravoERP with CyOp’s development, training, and managed hosting and support services.

In doing so, CyOp was able to create a solution that would meet the client’s current and future needs while requiring no capital expenses for hardware, no software licensing fees, no proprietary vendor “lock-in”, and no technical administrator needed on the part of the client.

The client went live on CyOp’s OpenbravoERP implementation in July and has already realized significant immediate benefits as a result.

Since all purchase orders, warehousing & inventory management are handled by OpenbravoERP, for the first time since the company’s inception the client was able to view an accurate total of valued inventory at each warehouse location, and using the system, they were able to identify $22,350 in valued inventory that had never been received.

Next, the system calculates all the costs involved during the manufacturing process which allows the client to also view accurate costing of each item. This revealed that, for several products, the cost of manufacturing actually exceeded the client’s distributor pricing, prompting a planned price increase.

Jonathan Castleman, President of CyberOptic Group, noted, “The more we learned about Openbravo, the more impressed we were with both the application and the company, and we immediately became one of Openbravo’s initial three US Partners.”

“We’re proud to have Openbravo’s first US Partner installation and extremely pleased with both the speed and ease of implementation along with the fantastic results realized by our client,” Castleman added.

Due to the success seen as a result of CyOp’s Openbravo ERP implementation, the client has also contracted CyOp to build a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application to enable better management of its sales campaigns, opportunities, and distribution channels.

About CyberOptic Group, LLC

CyberOptic Group provides commerce software and infrastructure solutions to small businesses including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Process Management (BPM), Point of Sale (POS), and Merchant Solutions. CyberOptic Group combines the best features of open source with the best features of Software as a Service (SaaS), enabling organizations to effectively own, control and modify as needed, their own application without the large expenses of hardware acquisition & maintenance, software licensing, data center facilities or an IT staff.

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For more information on CyberOptic Group, please contact Jonathan Castleman, President, at (800) 376-9704 x401 or visit their web site at http://www.cyop.net.

For more information on Openbravo, please visit their web site at http://www.openbravo.com.

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