Stoq: a flexible system for the management of commercial companies

• Grant number: 01/08534-7
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Innovative Research in Small Business - PIPE
• Start date: January 01, 2002
• End date: November 30, 2006
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computer Systems
• Principal Investigator: Christian Robottom Reis
• Grantee: Christian Robottom Reis
• Company: Async Serviços de Informática Ltda
• City: São Carlos

Abstract

The Stoq project involves the creation of a set of applications for the management of medium and small enterprises, built with the use of tools based on free software. The set of requirements expected from the project includes: ease of customization - Stoq has to be easily configurable to meet the needs of the different types of business; internationalization, given that the software needs to be easy to translate into other languages; integration with the community of developers, to which it must be accessible. In addition to this, the project must generate the offer of services to complement the software, among which installation, maintenance, training, customization and support. The proposal is to turn Stoq into a management platform to be widely used by national businesses, offering facilities for integration into the productive chain, distribution and customer support. The project now has an extensive knowledge base and has partnerships with commercial enterprises as it source of resource. In the second phase of the project, it is planned to develop the applications as well as the platform, on the basis of the process established in phase 1, and to work to make accessible and promote the use of the applications and platforms among institutions which can support and use the project’s products. A set of software components has been established which will be fine-tuned to meet the stiff requirements of the application. This platform includes Python, ZODB, and GTK+ packages and Async, Kiwi and IndexedCatalog products. (AU)