Nexedi is an international software publisher specializing in Free Software for the Enterprise market. We introduce in this presentation Nexedi's current status and future roadmap.

Nexedi is now nearly 20 years old. It grew from a single person business specializing in open source ERP to a group of companies with a wide product line and international footprint.

Nexedi was founded in Lille area (France) in 2001. It is now probably the largest Free Software publisher in EU with more than 10 products and 15 million lines of code.

Nexedi staff includes 35 engineers located mainly in France but also in other EU countries, Russia, Asia and South America.

Nexedi business model consists of building and deploying large scale Enterprise systems (ERP, Big Data, Cloud), train users and then ensure smooth operation of the system during 10 to 20 years through preventive maintenance and support services.

Nexedi systems are hosted on premise or in the cloud. All generic source code is public. Cource code which contains trade secrets is shared with customers only.

Nexedi's organic growth does not depend on any investor. Nexedi has been a profitable company since day 1. 

Nexedi clients are mainly medium to large size companies and governments, looking for scalable enterprise solutions such as ERP, CRM, DMS, data lake, big data cloud, IT infrastructure automation, etc.

Due to its highly flexible and generic nature, Nexedi software is used in very different industries: aerospace, automotive, chemical, pharmaceutical, mechanical, government, banking, etc. Adapting Nexedi software to a specific industry or region can be achieved in much less time than with competing solutions. This explains why Nexedi does not focus on any specific region or industry. It also explains why Nexedi has been able to transfer success in one industry/region to another industry/region.

Nexedi success cases include the converged e-commerce and billing platform of Big & Go ETC operator (France) with up to 100.000 invoices generated per hour. It also includes the management ERP of two group companies of Kyorin pharmaceutical (Japan), management ERP of TerraSar-X mission at Airbus (Germany), main ERP in various PSA factories, ERP of Sankei Chemical (Japan), accounting platform of Ekiho house construction company (France) and trading platform of Micro (China).

Nexedi is the supplier of the cloud technology of Teralab (France), one of the few successful sovereign clouds in Europe with a strong focus on big data and AI.

Nexedi is the supplier of the big data collection ad processing platform of Woelfel (Germany) which is used for predictive maintenance of wind turbines, vibration detection in vaults, noise detection in airports and also sensor management for smart city in Bavaria.

Nexedi's roadmap consists of levering the unique strengths of ERP5 to reach new markets which require converged applications while initiating the growth of SlapOS ad provide a solution to growing concerns posed by existing cloud platforms.

Application convergence is a long time strength of ERP5. Instead of having to operate multiple systems with multiple interfaces which complexity grows non-linearly, ERP5 provides a single scalable database and application framework to integrate all aspects of business applications under the unified JIO interface: ERP, CRM, DMS, Web (e-commerce), Project, Big Data and now MES. This makes ERP5 one of the best platforms for Industry 4.0 projects which combine traditional human management with data streams collected from the Internet of Things.

For now, Big Data projects are marketed under the "Wendelin" brand because they are considered as essentially different from traditional ERP5 projects. However, in recent markets, big data and ERP are becoming just two faces of the same management project. Within 10 years, every ERP5 project will include its share of Big Data, just like all current projects have their share of Web and document management.

Industry 4.0, with an exepected market of USD 156.6 billion by 2024, will represent 50% of the growth of ERP5 sales through projects that combine all current aspects of ERP5 with big data and scheduling of sensors or actuators on the factory floor. Nexedi thus expects a growth of 50% of its combined ERP5 and Wendelin sales by 2024.

Nexedi does not expect however short-term convergence of ERP5 with social network systems (SNS) due to the complexity of interfaces and to the existing habits of users on their smartphones. Also, most APIs of public SNS are lremoved as soon as they become successful: no sustainable system can be built on top of SNS APIs. SNS will thus be adressed through ad-hoc interfaces and Web based notifications. JIO is expected to play a key role in providing a unified access to the different SNS platforms.