Compiere (pronounced KOM-pyeh-reh, "to accomplish, complete, fulfill" in Italian) is an open-source ERP and CRM business solution for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) in distribution, retail, service, and manufacturing.

Compiere was founded in 1999 by Jorg Janke[1] and was among the top 10 projects in SourceForge[2] from 2002 for 4 years,[3] reaching one million downloads and 100 partners in 2006.

[6] Like many commercial ventures built around open-source projects, there was a degree of contention between company management (who sought to monetize the investments in R&D, Services and Support) and voices from the community (who desired that Compiere source code and business processes remained free and open as Adempiere at that moment and iDempiere some years later).

[7] The application and source code are provided based on the GNU General Public License version 2; this comprises the Community Edition.

Compiere encompasses ERP functionality, but in order to avoid the duplication of information and fulfill the need for synchronization, it was organized in a different way.

Compiere is a Model Driven Architecture development, deployment and maintenance framework designed with the intention of following changes as business evolves.