Getting Around Odoo (2018 Edition) — Implementing Efficiently with Open Source

Presented at the Odoo Roadshow in Tokyo on 23 March 2018, the first such event held in Japan. These slides are in Japanese. Across 78 pages it covers what kind of product Odoo is and how its being open source bears on an implementation.

The material reflects March 2018. Figures and screens differ from current versions, but the thinking on how to use open source and how to choose a partner still holds.

What the deck covers

• Odoo's market position — search trend comparisons against the major ERPs, and against other open source ERPs
• Why Odoo became popular worldwide — low cost, broad functional coverage, and global capability
• The growth cycle of an open source product — and why Odoo turns that cycle more successfully than any other open source ERP
• Characteristics of the Japanese market — Japanese material and a Japanese UI are mandatory, commercial customs are distinctive, and failure is avoided
• What open source is, and what it offers users, service providers, and the vendor respectively
• Routes to implementation — engaging a partner versus doing it yourself
• Why the Odoo Community Association exists, with a breakdown of module counts by version
• An introduction to Quartile and the community work it does
• Customization examples — extra fields captured at purchase registration, pulling records from the supplier table, auto-archiving out-of-stock web products, and bulk-importing auction results
• Feedback from an implementation customer, and why the choice of partner matters so much

Related links

• Blog post: Japan's first Odoo Roadshow event
• OCA/l10n-japan — Japanese localization modules