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