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Research Development Group

Summary: Research and Development Group belonging to the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, focused in areas such as applied acoustics and advanced instrumentation systems. They also deliver commercial services around legal metrology and accredited laboratories
Industry: R&D+I and Labs
Number of Employees: 20
Estimated Annual revenues: 2 million euros
Implementation: Madrid (Spain). 600 h. Started in Nov'07. Finalized in Feb'08
Previous ERP solution: MS Navision
Website: http://www.i2a2.upm.es

Openbravo ERP proved to be the right solution for our Research and Development Group, supporting, in a very flexible and efficient way, our needs regarding the delivery of R+D+i projects and accredited ISO170025 services to a high number of clients.

Mariano Ruiz, Regular Professor - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

The need for a management solution that supports their activity mainly based on project management
Specific needs not supported by their previous ERP, like individual project task tracking
Project costs and profitability reports
Daily employee hours, expenses and machine usage registration against projects

Openbravo ERP: as their own and unique application, customized to their particular needs
Task tracking and managing: custom development to follow up individual project tasks and assign human resources and machines to it
Reporting: design of specific reports for global activity tracking

Personalization: ERP solution tailored to their current specific needs and highly scalable for their future needs
Project control: Clear and quick project management, knowing the costs, incomes and thus its profitability
Individual task control: information of the resources (human and material) dedicated to each one of the tasks of a project