Meet the entrepreneur who is bringing 'open source' to enterprise software

Rushabh Mehta claims his firm is the biggest open-source project in ERP in India, and the second largest in the world

After his Master of Science (MS) in 2004, Rushabh Mehta joined his family business of manufacturing hospital furniture. A few years into it, the firm was implementing an ERP solution from a vendor and was facing some integration issues. ERP, or enterprise resource planning, forms the software backbone of any organisation, managing back-office functions such as accounting, sales data, and employee leaves and payroll.

Mehta, who calls himself a 'hobbyist programmer’, decided to create an ERP tool himself--one that specifically solved some pain points that off-the-shelf ERP products couldn't at that time. It worked so well that Mehta decided to