Jörg Janke - The Master Mind

Jorg Janke, designed and developed Compiere ERP, known as Adempiere's  predecessor. By then Jörg had over 20 years experience working with world class ERP systems. He is a certified Java Programmer and an Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) data. In the beginning, he founded a company named "SoftCream" and later sold it to ADV / Orga. This was one of the pioneers in the integration of business processes in Germany.

Jörg continued to work for ADV / Orga UNISYS and later with his client, a sales solution running on UNIX, written in COBOL ISAM and archiving. He continued to administer the UNISYS Business Management Systems in Europe.

 

By then  he  developed a  Compiere  prototype on Oracle 5; then in 1992 moved to Oracle Corp. as Applications Manager, and later took over as part of the application development team in Redwood Shores, California (USA), where he became Director of Enterprise Systems. There he led the development of multi currency reporting in Oracle, and invented an Application Implementation Wizard which shortened application deployment times dramatically. Oracle applications grew from this plataform, similar to what SAP had done with similar programs.

The problem with these technologies was that the "multi" features were added after the core application had been develped. This resulted in significant inefficiencies, costs and delays. On the other hand Jorg knew that ERP had to be designed as a "multi" capable solution from its inception, which will in turn result in minimal development costs and maintenance.