What the Community Thinks: iDempiere Survey 2025 Results
Introduction
From time to time, the iDempiere community comes together to share insights, feedback, and suggestions about the platform that powers their businesses. The iDempiere Survey 2025 brought in responses from 88 participants across the globe — developers, ERP users, business owners, and implementers. The results give us a fascinating look at how iDempiere is used, what users love, and what could be improved.
👥 Who Participated?
- 24% use iDempiere in their company as a full ERP system.
- 20% are ERP implementers serving other companies.
- 19% develop plugins or extensions.
- 14% use it as a backend framework for integrations.
- 8% are new learners — either exploring ERP systems or learning to code.
🌍 A Global, Technically-Skilled Community
- Database: PostgreSQL (86%)
- Operating system: Ubuntu and other Linux variants (80%+)
- Installation method: Manual setup is still the most used (47%)
💬 Satisfaction & Trust
- Open-source and community-driven
- Cost-effective for growing businesses
- Modular and extensible
- Trusted by peers or partners
📦 Most Popular Plugins
The REST API is the most widely used plugin among the iDempiere community, considered essential by 44 respondents.
Other popular plugins include Libero Manufacturing, Kanban Dashboard, and Delete Client/Initialize Client.
📄 Top Documents Used
- Sales Orders
- Customer Invoices
- Purchase Orders
👤 Number of Users per Implementation
- Largest implementation: 40,000 users
- Most common range: 10 to 100 users
- Smallest implementations: as few as 1 to 3 users
💰 Accounting Usage
92% of accounting users rely on the built-in iDempiere module.
📊 Business Intelligence (BI) Tools
- Internal iDempiere Dashboards: 25%
- Metabase: 27%
- Power BI: 16%
- Apache Superset: 6%
📥 Final Thoughts
The results of the 2025 iDempiere Community Survey highlight a mature, global, and highly engaged ecosystem. From strong satisfaction scores to diverse technical use cases, it’s clear that iDempiere remains a flexible and trusted ERP choice. While there’s room for growth in areas like documentation and UI/UX, the community’s commitment to continuous improvement is a powerful driver for future innovation.
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I am a systems engineer with a great passion for open source, software development, and technology in general. I have been part of the iDempiere community since 2012. I believe the enterprise world is one of the most aggressive environments out there. Companies tend to ruthlessly compete against each other. That is why seeing competitors co-exist and cooperate in harmony in iDempiere (and OSS communities in general) is so interesting to me.
