What is Odoo Open Source ERP? Odoo’s open source software offerings go beyond ERP to include features such as CRM, e-commerce and BI. Belgium-based Odoo made a name for itself under its previous name of OpenERP, with an open source ERP application that gained traction, especially in Europe. Over the past few years, the company has expanded into more areas of the enterprise application landscape. Fabian Pinckaers, the company's CEO, said Odoo is used by large companies, small businesses, associations and other types of organizations. OpenERP changed its name to Odoo as Pinckaers saw that it was moving into new territories, beyond ERP. With content management, e-commerce and business intelligence (BI) gaining prominence, the ERP moniker was no longer broad enough. He boasts of the company's 3.000-plus apps and its out-of-the-box integration. For example, it integrates point-of-sale, e-commerce, sales, reporting, CRM, project management, timesheets, financial and accounting. Odoo is helped by the Odoo Community Association (OCA), a nonprofit with the purpose of promoting the widespread use of Odoo and supporting collaborative development of features. It also provides financial, organizational and legal support to the Odoo Open Source community. This community offers online demos, downloads, a fast way to compare the various editions, a help desk, a forum, user guides and more for those who use the apps. There are also specific sections for developers and partners engaged with the company. "Before Odoo, the only options to integrate all your applications were complex implementation projects through services such as SAP, Oracle or Microsoft Dynamics," said Pinckaers. "Now you can integrate all your business apps. The quality of most Odoo applications outperforms the top players in each category." See the article at http://ift.tt/2b5htBp or Odoo's website at https://www.odoo.com/
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