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Company Profile
BIT Software (www.bitsoftware.ro) is developing and implementing ERP/CRM and Business
Intelligence systems, based on the latest technology.
BIT Software is one of the first companies in Romania which developed an ERP system
Socrate+ - implemented at the moment in more than 150 medium and large sized Romanian
companies.
BIT Software is also the first Romanian company who launched on the Romanian market a
professional open source ERP/CRM world class solution SocrateOpen, sustained through
implementation and technical support services. SocrateOpen is used in Romania by companies
activating in Professional Services, Manufacturing, Distribution, and Constructions.
With more than 15 years experience on ERP/CRM, development and implementation, BIT
Software offers modern and adaptable business solutions helping companies from different areas
to improve productivity by streamlining and automating processes, in order to achieve smart
growth and sustainability goals.

Products
BIT Software customers benefit today of products which incorporate the newest technology and
experience regarding the ERP/CRM systems.

Socrate+ is the first ERP system developed by BIT Software and one of the first ERP systems
developed on the Romanian market. Designed for companies activating in retail/distribution/food
industry or car dealers, Socrate+ has been successfully implemented until today in more than
150 Romanian medium or large size companies.
Socrate+ involves the knowledge resulted from 15 years of experience in implementation, is a
system that grew from a year to another and became a mature solution, to which new extensions
and integrations with different applications and appliances have been added.
Socrate+ is a stable system, with a high level of quality that includes complex functionalities and
innovative technologies, in order to help companies using it to increase their activity control,
grow efficiency and profitability.
Socrate+ is a suitable tool for any manager to count on, as it helps him grow the business and
continuous improve the company.


Socrate+ is a modular system made up of the following packages/modules:

- Financial General Ledger and Financial Reporting, Treasury, Fixed Assets, Payroll,
Budgets
- Commercial Purchase (Purchase Requirements, Suppliers Orders, Purchasing, Import),
Sales (Customers Orders, Sales, Export), Warehouses Logistics (cell management), Stock
Logistics (multiple stock management methods), Sales, Deliveries and Purchase Planning,
POS Integration
- Manufacturing - Structures, Product Configurations, Production Recipes, Planning,
Launching and Monitoring of Production (Manufacturing Orders), Manufacturing Costs,
Maintenance
- Strategic Management - Business Intelligence OLAP; Reporting Services

Socrate+ Competitive advantages:
- Specialization on verticals (specific modules for different industries allow an easier
integration of the product)
- Data consolidation (the majority of Socrate+ implementations are done in distributed
environments, resulting a vast experience based also on an advanced technology. For
example, in big store chains, there is the necessity to consolidate data from the stores to
the head office, in order to analyze and have control on the business)
- BI Integration, allows customers - beside management of documents and operational
reports, accounting, financial, control and optimization of workflows - to analyze and
make different scenarios based on specific tools: OLAP cubes or specific analysing tools
like Pentaho or ProClarity.

The system architecture is client server, based on Microsoft technology. The transfer of data
between working environments is done using the replication mechanism of SQL Server.


SocrateOpen (www.socrateopen.ro) is a professional open source, world class ERP&CRM
system that supports businesses with 30 employees, but also with 300 000 employees.
Its a modern solution covering all the company activities, managing the enterprise
resources, the customer relationships, including a content management system for creating and
managing sites and a web store. SocrateOpen was built in order to offer flexibility, scalability,
freedom to change anything, anytime, to adapt, extend and integrate any type of functionality
needed by complex organizations. SocrateOpen is open source, meaning there are no costs with
the system licenses. It can be deployed on-premise or on the Cloud, for a fraction of the cost of
traditional ERP systems.
A next generation ERP, SocrateOpen is based on Compiere (www.compiere.com), and supported
through professional implementation, maintenance and technical support services by BIT
Software.
SocrateOpen functionality:
- Quote to cash - covers the business process for creating a quote for a prospect or
customer, order management, invoicing and cash receipt. The functionality is highly
integrated with Supply Chain Management and Customer Management.
- Requisition to Pay - covers the business process for creating requisitions, purchase order,
invoice receipt and payment processing. The functionality is highly integrated with Supply
Chain Management. In traditional systems, you find this functionality in modules like
purchasing and accounts payables.
- Customer relationship Management - is not an independent module, but the logical view
of all customer and prospect related activities. Customer management functions are an
integrated part of the business process. Therefore, there are (in contrast to traditional
CRM systems) no batch or synchronization processes for the back-office functionality. I
includes: lead and activity tracking; marketing campaign management; customer
profitability analysis; self service on line inquiry.
- Partner Management - links different clients to each other allowing them to manage lead
distribution, service requests collateral distribution and marketing expenses. It also
allows providing (centralized) services.
- Supply Chain Management covers all material management activities including inventory
receipts, shipments, moves and counts within a client and its organizations and to
suppliers and customers.
- Performance Analysis - covers the costing and accounting dimension of the application.
In traditional systems, you find this functionality in Reporting and General Ledger
modules as well as those modules which generate accounting entries.
- The Web Store provides all you need to run your web presence. The information is
shared with the standard application, so no synchronization or extra integration work is
required. The web store components can be customized to the look-and-feel of your web
site.

SocrateOpen characteristics:
- Fully integrated ERP/CRM , supply chain management and accounting software
- Free licences Open source solution
- Available on premise or in cloud
- Fast and easy implementation
- Supported by implementation, maintenance and technical support services

Flexible platform
- Scalable, flexible, extensible and fully customizable ERP solution
- Robust ERP application with no final decisions
- Fully adapted to Romanian legislation
- Multi organizations
- Multi taxes
- Multi currency
- Multi accounting
- Multi language

Innovative architecture
- Web and java user interfaces also in Romanian language
- Application dictionary
- Integrated workflow engine for 100% adaptability
- Notification agents. Alerts.
- Safe fail architecture for 100% availability
- Web and java interface
- Import and export of data
- Attached files and arhivare
- Acces and audit based on roles
- Integrated report writer and extensive security

Technology
- J2EE technology with minimal operating costs
- Database and application server independent
- Database: Oracle 10g, 11g
- Application server: Jboss
- Internet server: Apache, Apache Tomcat

Business Intelligence BIT Software has 10 years experience in implementation of Business
Intelligenge solutions: OLAP cubes, Reporting Services, ProClarity (now Microsoft Performance
Point), Pentaho, Oracle BI. BIT Software solutions include or are integrated with BI tools, offering
increased flexibility in the decision taking process.


Support and Services
A professional team made up of BIT Software specialists and licensed partners offers a whole
range of implementation services for all the provided solutions. Standard implementation
methodology and service management dedicated software tools and highly qualified personnel
ensure a timely and efficient implementation guaranteeing answer times to every ante and post
implementation request.

Support and implementation services offered by BIT Software/licensed partners:
- Functional implementation business analysis, training at the customers office as well as
at a specialized training center, audit
- Project management
- Technical support services at the customers office as well as remotely

Strategic Partnerships
BIT Software has close partnership relations with powerful companies such as Compiere Inc. USA,
X-prise (The Netherlands), Microsoft, Oracle, IBM.


Certifications
Compiere Silver Partner
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
Oracle Gold Partner
IBM Partner
ISO:9001:2008

Competences
Client-server (2/n tiers), Web 2.0
Main development environment: Visual C++ , Visual Basic, .Net, Java, ASP, pHp
Data bases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Postgress
Application servers: jBoss
Software Development Process: http://www.agilemanifesto.org/
Business Intelligence: Pentaho, MS Analysis Services, Oracle BI