2008–2010, in the Adempiere community some users work on a modular ERP design proposal, with some OSGI implementations like Apache Felix[5] and Equinox.

[29] Computer Review (Russian web page) - The best "free" ERP-systems of primary, secondary and higher levels, 5 November 2015.

[31] Capterra Logistics Technology Blog - "The Top 8 Free, Open Source ERP Software",[32] July 26, 2017. iDempiere consists of a Java server (based on a Jetty container) with a ZK 9.6 web GUI.

[33] It works as a web client software in Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Edge browsers that allow users to open related records quickly and easily via links.

[36] Machine-to-machine communication is possible in XML file formats, the ERP has input and output templates of web service, allowing calls to the iDempiere server in any table, process or workflow.

iDempiere is a project with a high activity,[43][44] supported by a worldwide community of committed people organized as a decentralized bazaar.

There are active local communities in Japan, China, USA, Germany, Indonesia, Brasil, Malaysia, Colombia, India, Russia, and other countries.

[45] The community of people working with the software uses different tools to communicate around the world, such as Multi-language Project Wiki,[46] Google forums[47] and Mattermost channels.

The development environment (IDE) used for iDempiere is Eclipse with maven/Tycho, Git, Equinox ( OSGi )[55] and Apache Felix Web Console.