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What do we expect from you?
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We used to deploy full featured projects within 25 to 250 hours of
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We are used to deploying fully featured projects within 25 to 250 hours of
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services, which is much faster than any other ERP vendor on the market.
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Most projects are completed between 1 and 4 calendar months.
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Most projects are completed between 1 to 9 calendar months.
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But what really **differentiates between a successful implementation and
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a slow one, is you, the customer!** From our experience, here is what
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leads to a successful project.
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a slow one, is you, the customer!** From our experience, when our customer
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is engaged and proactive the implementation is smooth.
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Your internal implementation manager
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We will ask you for a single point of contact within your company work
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on the project with our project manager. To be efficient, this person
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must:
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We ask that you maintain a single point of contact within your company to
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work with our project manager on your Odoo Implementation. This is to ensure
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efficiency and a single knowledge base in your company.
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Additionally, this person must:
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- **be available at least 2 full days a week** for the project,
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otherwise you will slow down the implementation. More is better,
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the fastest implementations have a full time project manager.
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otherwise you risk slowing down your implementation. More is better with
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the fastest implementations having a full time project manager.
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- **have authority to take decisions** on their own. Odoo usually
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transforms all departments of companies for the better. In such a
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project, you have a lot of decisions to take on small details. If
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there is too much back and forth between several decision makers,
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it could potentially seriously slow things down.
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transforms all departments within a company for the better. There
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can be many small details that need quick turn arounds for answers and
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if there is too much back and forth between several internal decision
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makers within your company it could potentially seriously slow everything down.
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- **have the leadership** to train and enforce policies at most
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departments. This person must have the support, or be part, of
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the top management.
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- **have the leadership** to train and enforce policies internally with full support
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from all departments and top management, or be part of top management.
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Integrate 95% of your business, not 100%
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Integrate 90% of your business, not 100%
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You probably chose Odoo because no other software allows for such a high
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level of automation, feature coverage and integration. But **don't be an
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extremist in that direction.**
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level of automation, feature coverage, and integration. But **don't be an
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extremist.**
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Customizations cost you money, are more complex to maintain, add risks
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to the implementation and can cause issues with upgrades.
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Customizations cost you time, money, are more complex to maintain, add risks
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to the implementation, and can cause issues with upgrades.
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Standard Odoo can probably cover 95% of your business. Be flexible on
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the remaining 5%, otherwise that 5% will cost you twice the original
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project price. One always underestimates the hidden costs of
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customization.
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Standard Odoo can probably cover 90% of your business processes and requirements.
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Be flexible on the remaining 10%, otherwise that 10% will cost you twice the original
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project price. One always underestimates the hidden costs of customization.
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- **Do it the Odoo way, not yours.** Be flexible, use Odoo the way it
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was designed. Learn how it works and don't try to replicate the
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way your old system(s) works.
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- **The project first, customizations second.** If you really want
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customizations, phase them in at the end of the project, ideally
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after going into production. Once a customer starts using Odoo,
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they usually drop about 60% of their customization requests as
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they learn to do it the out of the box Odoo way. It is more
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important to have all your business processes working than
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customizing a screen to add fields or automate a few e-mails.
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- **The project first, customizations second.** If you really want to
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customize Odoo, phase it towards the end of the project, ideally
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after having been in production for several months. Once a customer
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starts using Odoo, they usually drop about 60% of their customization
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requests as they learn to perform their work flows out of the box, or
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the Odoo way. It is more important to have all your business processes
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working than customizing a screen to add a few fields here and there
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or automating a few e-mails.
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Our project managers are trained to help you make the right decision and
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Our project managers are trained to help you make the right decisions and
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measure the tradeoffs involved but it is much easier if you are aligned
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with them on the objectives.
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with them on the objectives. Some processes may take more time than your
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previous system(s), however you need to weigh that increase in time with
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other decreases in time for other processes. If the net time spent is
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decreased with your move to Odoo than you are already ahead.
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Invest time in learning Odoo
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Start your free trial. Play with the system. The more comfortable you
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are with Odoo, the better your decisions will be and the training phase
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will be that much easier.
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Start your free trial and play with the system. The more comfortable you
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are with navigating Odoo, the better your decisions will be and the quicker
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and easier your training phases will be.
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Nothing replaces playing with the software, but here are some extra
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resources:
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