What is 1C:Enterprise? Print

1C:Enterprise is 1C Company's accounting and ERP software most popular in Russia and CIS formed countries. It's targeted towards small to medium businesses. More than million of organizations work with 1C:Enterprise while performing their everyday routines.

The latest 1C:Enterprise version has been fully localized into English language and is available worldwide. 1C:Enterprise is directly competitive with SAP and Microsoft Dynamics. In contrast to them 1C:Enterprise has open price policy, better rapid application development and inexpensive solutions.

History

1C Company was founded in 1991 by Boris Nuraliev in Moscow, Russia. The company looked to provide a solution to business owners giving them a system that required little or no accounting and development experience.

In 2008 earnings came in at $406 million. The company remanis profitable: net income was $55 million in 2008. 1C was one of the foremost groups in the industry with over 1000 full-time employees. 1C has the biggest software sales volume in CIS IT industry.

International versions

Versions of this product are available in many different markets. German, Turkish, Vietnam, Ukrainian, Kazakh and Kyrgyz divisions offer versions of 1C:Enterprise that support the unique needs of each region. The latest 1C:Enterprise version has been fully localized into English language and is available worldwide.

General features and use

In Russia 1C:Enterprise has wide fully configurable set of applications implementing:

  • customer relationship management (CRM);
  • private/public sector accounting and accounting in non-profit organizations;
  • accounting and reporting for private entrepreneurs;
  • payroll calculation and HR management;
  • sales and warehouse;
  • manufacturing;
  • financial planning;
  • report consolidation;
  • and other.

1C:Enterprise Training Version is available for educational, testing and comparison purposes.

1C:Enterprise business program suite involves integrated development environment (IDE), 1C:Enterprise framework and configurations created and executed on their basis.

1C:Enterprise IDE is a collection of development tools exposed through a user interface.

1C:Enterprise Framework has two main components: 1C:Enterprise Runtime and 1C:Enterptise Object Model. 1C:Enterprise Runtime is an agent that manages code at execution time, providing core services and promoting security and user friendly interface. To allow scripts and components to access features of 1C:Enterprise, the contents of the configuration were represented as objects in a programming model known as 1C:Enterprise Object Model. The 1C:Enterprise Object Model API provides a structured interface that allows you to access and manipulate virtually anything within the configuration.

1C:Enterprise System Requirements:

Supported operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Server 2000
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2000
  • Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
  • ALT Linux 2.4
  • ASP Linux 11
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 4
  • Fedora Core 6
  • Fedora Core 5
  • Fedora Core 4

Supported Relational Database Management Systems:

  • 1C:Enterprise (non DBMS file mode)
  • SQL Server 2008
  • SQL Server 2005
  • SQL Server 2000 SP4
  • PostgreSQL 8.3.3
  • PostgreSQL 8.2.4
  • PostgreSQL 8.1.5
  • IBM DB2 Express-C 9.5
  • IBM DB2 Express-C 9.1
  • Oracle Database (1C:Enterprise 8.2)