SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – 23rd November, 2011 – Openbravo, the agile ERP company, today announced the availability of free trial access to the company’s flagship Professional Edition ERP solution. Downloaded more than 2,000,000 times, Openbravo is the world’s most popular open source ERP. Openbravo offers a variety of deployment options, including, self-contained virtual appliance, Ubuntu, or cloud services such asAmazon Web Services (AWS).  Click here to start a free trial of Openbravo Professional Edition.

“Exposing Openbravo Professional Edition in a free trial format will allow business leaders to see first hand how our agile ERP strategy can deliver rapid ROI and enable business agility,” said Paolo Juvara, CEO of Openbravo. “With multiple, affordable deployment options, Openbravo can eliminate the frustration of companies that feel trapped with disconnected, obsolete or inflexible business applications.”

Professional Edition trial accounts also have free access to both Commercial and Open Source modules that extend Openbravo functionality. Over 400  modules are available and can be installed with a few mouse clicks. Trail accounts are non-transferrable, last for a period of 30 days, and are non-renewable. Support for trial accounts is available via Openbravo community forums and the Openbravo wiki.

To underscore how easy it is to deploy Openbravo on AWS, the company, jointly with Amazon, will be presenting a webinar ‘How to deploy Openbravo ERP on AWS in 5 minutes or less’ on November 29, 2011. AWS accounts are not included as part of Openbravo’s free trial offer, users will need to create and manage their own AWS account,

For users interested in deploying Openbravo on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Openbravo created and supports 32 and 64 bit Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for use in the AWS regions around the world. Openbravo AMIs are backed by the Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service, allowing customers to create full machine backups or launch a cloned instance in a matter of minutes. For more technical information on using Openbravo on AWS, see the Openbravo Installation Guide for Amazon EC2.