Advancing Japan's DX with the Open Source ERP Odoo

Presented at the Fukuoka Integration X (FIX) online event on 7 February 2024. These slides are in Japanese. Aimed at people new to Odoo, the deck lays out the product and its ecosystem, then shows how to handle the things that trip people up when using it in Japan.

It focuses in particular on partner address handling and on printing quotations, invoices, and purchase orders.

What the deck covers

• What Odoo is — the most widely used open source business application suite, its technical stack, the breadth of what it covers, multi-currency and multi-language support, and the size of its community
• What makes Odoo distinctive — low cost, broad functional coverage, and genuine global capability
• Odoo and open source — the growth cycle, the difference between Community and Enterprise, and where OCA sits
• Characteristics of the Japanese market — Japanese-language material and a Japanese product UI are mandatory, commercial customs are distinctive, failure is avoided, and little is published in English
• Working through the friction in a demo — how far OCA community modules get you against Japan-specific requirements
• How to try Odoo for yourself
• Practical advice for running an Odoo implementation project

Related links

• Fukuoka Integration X event page
• OCA/l10n-japan — Japanese localization modules