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Nexedi tries to stay on the forefront of information technology by putting strong emphasis on research and innovation. We are continuously investing in open source research together with partner companies and academic institutions and have many software products originating from former research projects. Key topics of interest include business intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, distributed web and data storages. Nexedi's own innovations, such as the Unified Business Model (UBM) or the ERP5 Implementation Process lie at the core of our solutions and business practices and have been both researched extensively and academically published.

Research Partners

Conducting joint research and development with partners has shown to be a key success factor for our open source projects. Some partners have been working with us for many years even contributing additional modules to ERP5 (such as ERP5 eGov) while others are involved in reasearching and creating technologies embedded in many of Nexedis solutions.

Mines Télécom
Hangzhou Dianzi University
Université Paris 13
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6
AIDE - Agence de l'informatique de l'etat
Instituto Federal de Educação

Innovations & Publications

Nexedi's research projects and cooperations with academic institutions have lead to a growing list of scientific publications. Articles, papers and book chapters related to Nexedi technologies have been published by IEEE, IFIP and ACM among others.

IEEE Publications

De Carvalho, R.A. De Campos, R. "A Development Process Proposal for the ERP5 System" Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2006. SMC '06. IEEE International Conference on (2006): 4703 - 4708
Smets-Solanes, J.-P. Atem de Carvalho, R. "ERP5: a next-generation, open-source ERP architecture" IT Professional (July-Aug. 2003): 38 - 44
De Carvalho, R.A. Monnerat, R.M. "Development Support Tools for Enterprise Resource Planning" IT Professional (Sept.-Oct. 2008): 39 - 45

IFIP Publications

De Campos, R. De Carvalho, R.A., Ferreira A. "Modeling Architecture and Reference Models for the ERP5 Project" in Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (2006): 677-682
De Carvalho, R.A., De Campos, R., Monnerat, R.M. "Quality Assurance in the ERP5 Development Process" in Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems II Volume 1 (2008): 677-687

IJEIS Publications

Wölfel, Klaus. "Automated ERP Category Configuration Support for Small Businesses" IJEIS 11.2 (2015): 1-23. doi:10.4018/IJEIS.2015040101

One Student One ERP

The One Student One ERP (OSOE) is a program providing every student and researcher of involved partner institutions a dedicated ERP system with Customer Relation Management (CRM), Document/Knowledge Management (KM) and an online development environment to teach management science, learn how to configure an ERP system and provide a testbed for innovative research.

With OSOE, Nexedi tries to contibute to the progress of Management Science by creating mutual collaborations with academic research and education while at the same time advancing teaching of ERP related topics towards Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).

More information: www.osoe-project.org

Nexedi Inventions

Nexedis dedication to research has resulted in a number of inventions over the course of the last 15 years, many of which have become core components in many of our software solutions.

Year	Invention	Description
2001	Unified Business Model	The Unified Business Model (UBM) is an abstract business model made up of only five generic concepts (Node, Movement, Resource, Item, Path) to express business related processes. It is the architecture of the core system of ERP5 and all extensions (hence the name ERP5) and provides a unified, business-independent vocabulary within a simple and compact data model to guarantee ease of access for engineers as well as consistency across all modules of ERP5.
2001	First Fully Web-Based ERP	ERP5 was also the first ERP system being fully web-based requiring just a browser with internet connection to be used.
2003	Peer to Peer Television	In 2003 Nexedi developed a device that once hooked up to a televion would convert and stream the TV programs online, so they could be viewed from any computer around the world. A second device for playing content streamed online on a regular TV complemented the set.
2005	First Implementation of ERP using SaaS and PaaS	2005 marked the firt time, Nexedi was able to successfully implement an ERP5 installation based solely on PaaS (Platform) and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) components.
2007	First Free SaaS ERP	The first implementation using solely SaaS and PaaS components also resulted in ERP5 being the first fully free SaaS-based ERP system, a pre-configured, ready-to-use ERP specifically tailored ot small and medium enterprises.
2007	Standard Implementation Process	A positive side effect of ERP5's generic architecture is the fact, that all implementations more or less followed the same routines. These routines where eventually formalized and fixed into what has become the "ERP5 Standard Implementation Process" - a generic process for implementing ERP5 across any business field resulting in much lower implementation cost.
2010	Reflexive Documents Types
2011	Distributed Cloud	Nexedi created SlapOS in 2011. An open source grid operating system for distributed cloud computing based on the motto "Everything is a process", SlapOS opens new perspectives for both business and research in the area of resilience and security on the Cloud.
2013	ERP Configuration relying on Artificial Intelligence	In 2013, Nexedi created the the ERP5 Artificial intelligence Toolkit (EAT) - a prototype consisting of a set of ERP5 modules which allow to manage and evaluate configuration questions, design decision trees and collect answer data as input for learning classifiers.
2014	Distributed Memory Manager for out-of-core	For Wendelin, the Big Data platform of Nexedi, a distributed memory manager was prototyped and is currently under developement. It allows to go beyond the physical memory/RAM limitations enabling true out-of-core data processing.

Current Project List

Nexedi is currently participating in the following research projects:

Start/End	Project	Description
2015 - ongoing	Open PAAS	The project aim is to develop the next generation of open source knowledge based, business collaboration platform, dubbable the "virtual office of the future", which should be distributable on a Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) basis
Linagora Nexedi XWiki Loria laboratory at Université de Lorraine LIX laboratory at École Polytechnique
2015 - ongoing	WINDELIN	The project will research and develop a pre-commercial Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) solution specialized on decentralized data collection and storage and the application of machine learning to predict failure propabilities of wind turbines. Data is to be collected through novel smart sensors (IoT - Internet of Things) set up and managed via a distributed mesh cloud.
Nexedi Micromega Dynamics Maria DB
2015 - ongoing	WENDELIN Exanalytics	The aim of Wendelin is to develop an industrial Big Data solution "Made in France" based on open source software components along with two prototype applications for the automotive and green energy sectors.
Nexedi GDF-Suez/Engie 2nd Quadrant Abilian INRIA Mines Télécom Université Paris 13 Wölfel Beratende Ingenieure Mitsubishi Motors Russia
2013 - ongoing	PRISTINE	RINA, the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture, is an emerging clean-slate programmable networking approach, centring on Inter-Process Communication (IPC) paradigm. This project's aim design, develop and implement the innovative internals of this clean-slate architecture that include the programmable functions to be used in security of content and application processes, supporting QoS and congestion control in aggregated levels, providing protection and resilience, facilitating more efficient topological routing, and multi-layer management for handling configuration, performance and security and demonstrate the applicability and benefits in use-cases driven be end-users, service providers and equipment vendors.
Waterford Institute Of Technology Fundació Privada i2CAT Télefonica I+D Ericsson LMI Nextworks Thales Research & Technology UK Nexedi BISDN ATOS Spain Juniper Networks Universitet i Oslo Vysoke Uceni Tecchnicke v Brne Mines Télécom Create-Net iminds
2012 - ongoing	DREAM	The project's aim is to engineer a semantic free open source simulation application development platform to support the wider adoption of simulation based applications in European manufactoring companies. The platform should use discrete event simulation technology ("task allocation simulation") beyond the current state of the art and aid companies in strategic (product/process development), tactical (ERP decision level) manufacturing execution (MES level) providing reactive real time decision support.
Balkan Cotton Gin Boston Scientific Infineon Dublin City University Nexedi Leotech Werkzeugbau Fraunhofer IAO University of Limerick Universität Stuttgart

Open Source Innovation

Research Partners

Innovations & Publications

One Student One ERP

Nexedi Inventions

Current Project List