It is our goal to establish openCRX as a reference service for relationship management and collaboration.
After careful analysis of the market for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software we came to the conclusion that the world needs a professional enterprise-class Open Source CRM solution for several reasons:
Hence, back in 2003 we started modeling the core of a reference CRM-application. The tool of choice for developing an open source CRM solution was openMDX, the leading open source MDA platform (MDA = Model Driven Architecture). In February 2004 we already released an initial version of the core models. The first public version of openCRX was released on 1-August-2004 and we admit that we have been totally overwhelmed by the interest in openCRX ever since.
| Date |
Milestone |
| 01-Aug-2004 |
initial launch of openCRX v1.0.0 |
| 09-Aug-2004 |
made the Top100 on Sourceforge for the first time ("most active" ranking)
|
| 04-Sep-2004 |
openCRX v1.1.1 (support for additional DBs and language localization) |
| 06-Sep-2004 |
reached 1,000 downloads
|
| 20-Sep-2004 |
reached 3,000 downloads
|
| 25-Sep-2004 |
made the Top20 on Sourceforge for the first time ("most active" ranking)
|
| 29-Sep-2004 |
made the Top10 on Sourceforge for the first time ("most active" ranking)
|
| 21-Oct-2004 |
reached 5,000 downloads
|
| 8-Nov-2004 |
openCRX v1.2.0 (multi-entity, security, workflows, es_MX, zh_CN, etc.) |
| 1-Dec-2004 |
First openCRX-based ASP offering launched
|
| 09-Dec-2004 |
reached 10,000 downloads
|
| 15-Dec-2004 |
openCRX v1.3.0 (BEA Weblogic, IBM WebSphere, etc.) |
| 14-Jan-2005 |
openCRX v1.4.0 (Security, MySQL, DHTML Calendar Control, HTML 4.01) |
| 28-Feb-2005 |
openCRX v1.5.0 (MS Word Integration, E-mail Notification, Audit Trail, ...) |
| 1-Jun-2005 |
openCRX v1.6.1 (Activity Mgmt, Issue Tracking, UI enhancements, cs_CZ, nl_NL, pt_BR) |
| 1-Aug-2005 |
more than 85,000 downloads in year 1
|
| 17-Aug-2005 |
openCRX v1.7.1 (Depot Mgmt, Booking Engine, RAS, UI enhancements, etc.) |
| 25-Sep-2005 |
reached 100,000 downloads
|
| 11-Oct-2005 |
openCRX v1.8.1 (Product/Contract Extension, Single Sign-On, Perfomance Tuning...) |
| 31-Jan-2006 |
reached 125,000 downloads
|
| 02-Apr-2006 |
openCRX v1.9.1 (Activity Processes, Pricing Models, E-Mail Adapter, Perfomance Tuning...) |
| 10-Sep-2006 |
reached 150,000 downloads
|
| 23-Feb-2007 |
openCRX v1.10.0 (DB2 support, Enhanced GUI, AJAX-support, ...) |
| 01-Aug-2007 |
reached 180,000 downloads
|
| 26-Aug-2007 |
openCRX v1.11.0 (JDO/JPOX compatible DB schemas, data bindingds, grid drill down, es_CO, ja_JP, ...) |
| 25-Feb-2008 |
openCRX v2.0 (Groupware Functionality (ICS/iCal, LDAP , IMAP, Wiki, index-based search, ...) |
| 29-Feb-2008 |
reached 200,000 downloads
|
| 06-Mar-2008 |
MS Outlook ICS Adapter for openCRX v2.0 |
| 10-Jul-2008 |
openCRX v2.1 (Reporting, Mail Merge, Social Networks, Groupware, in-place editing, ...) |
| 21-Sep-2008 |
openCRX v2.2 (Enhanced GUI, support for iPhone and Google Chrome, enhanced performance, ...) |
| 11-Oct-2008 |
reached 225,000 downloads
|
| 16-Oct-2008 |
openCRX v2.2.1 (enhanced stability and performance, new locale ro_RO) |
| 17-Dec-2008 |
openCRX v2.3.0 (REST service, various UI features, Mail Merge Wizard, Work Report Wizard, JBOss 5 support) |
| 10-Mar-2009 |
openCRX v2.4.0 / openCRX v2.4.1
AJAX Forms and Wizards, Mandatory Attributes, Scheduling/Polling Wizards,
vCard/iCal Exporter, OpenJPA, OpenEJB, Thunderbird 3 Add-on, IE8 |
| 15-Jun-2009 |
openCRX v2.5.0
Enhanced GUI / new Icons, Enhanced Work/Expense Records with wizards to easily create them,
Wizard to create work/expense reports, Excel account importer, new openCRX plugin, OpenEJB 3.1.1 |
| 22-Jun-2009 |
reached 250,000 downloads
|
| 01-Aug-2009 |
openCRX v2.5.1
1-August-2009 marks 5 full years of openCRX!
Enhanced GUI / new Icons, Enhanced Work/Expense Records with wizards to easily create them,
Wizard to create work/expense reports, Excel account importer, new openCRX plugin, OpenEJB 3.1.1,
InfoVis Tookit v1.1.2, WYMeditor v0.5RC1, SIMILE Timeline v2.3.0, iPhone iCal support, Birthday calendar |
| 14-Sep-2009 |
openCRX v2.5.2
CalDAV Server, Wiky, enhanced performance und simplified architecture
with new openMDX Entity Manager (i.e. no more EJBs) |
| 02-Nov-2009 |
openCRX v2.5.3
openCRX PDA GUI, Search Forms, Dashboard / Dashlets |
| 25-Apr-2010 |
reached 280,000 downloads
|
| 01-May-2010 |
openCRX v2.6.0
AirSync Server (ActiveSync compatible) - OTA synchronization openCRX ⇔ Mobile Phones / PDAs
LDAP Server, CalDAV Support for Mozilla Calendar 1.0, Thunderbird 3 Address Book Connector,
Shop Adapter (for service oriented access to openCRX), Support for Eclipse Modeling Framework EMF,
Support for Java 6, Support for HSQLDB 2.0, Upgrade to OpenEJB 3.1.2, Extended Service
|
| 07-Sep-2010 |
openCRX v2.7.0
AirSync Client (ActiveSync compatible) - backend synchronization openCRX ⇔ MS Exchange |
| 28-Dec-2010 |
openCRX v2.8.0
WebDAV, CardDAV, Twitter, IMAP IDLE, Party Status, etc. |
| 07-May-2011 |
openCRX v2.8.5
Workspace GUI Extension, Activity Replication, Shop Front End, Apache TomEE, etc. |
| 8-Jan-2012 |
openCRX v2.9.0
Customer Care Wizard, Enhanced Business Processes (SCXML), Business Process Importer/Exporter
DB Copy and DB Schema Validate Wizards, Contract Groups/Creators, Address Authority, Apache TomEE,
RunAs Permissions, GUI Element-Level Security, Grid Actions, Support for OpenJDK, etc. |
| 24-Aug-2012 |
openCRX v2.10.0
CardDAV support, XMPP (Jabber), Field Localization (advanced multi-language features), File Browser,
JSP Tag Library, Timers, Support for Outlook MSG-Format (incl. X.500 Addresses), many new Wizards |
| 18-Apr-2013 |
openCRX v2.11.0
GUI: Rework of Operation Dialigs and Inline Wizards, Support for IE8, IE9, IE10, Workflow Structuring
and Monitoring, Bulk Activity and Follow-Up Creation, BPI Adapter (Business Process Integration Adapter),
openCRX remote with minimal set of JARs, Refactoring (Wizards, Business-Logic, Backend),
openCRX Server Installer (IzPack5, TomEE 1.6) |
| 9-Nov-2013 |
openCRX v2.12.0
Web Calendar "CalDavZAP", Unified Edit/New Object, Document Filters, Cascading Code Fields,
Customer Queries in Grids, BPI Adapter with New/Additional Methods, LDAP Synchronizer,
Enhanced Campaign Wizard, Migrated from UML2Tools to Papyrus/GraphViz |
| 1-Aug-2014 |
openCRX v2.13.0
New responsive HTML5/Ajax-GUI that works with all devices, User-specific ordering of grid columns,
Enhanced search form, Janino scripts as workflows, MailWorkflow supports external sendmail command,
Document Exporter workflow, Store Media on file system, Auto-update of addresses, Activity Relationships,
Next/Prev Inspector |
Localization is done by a dedicated team of translators who contribute their valuable business and language know how to the project - a list of available locales is available here.
The task of building a CRM suite with such limited resources is doable thanks to MDA (MDA = Model Driven Architecture), which makes our team much more efficient than typical development teams. Our development platform - openMDX - is also playing a major role. We spend virtually no time programming as all the main patterns (persistency, security, etc.) are readily available. Our focus is on analyzing business processes and modeling.
