Fabien Pinckaers: One Stop Shop For All Business Solutions With Integrated & Futuristic Technologies
Fabien Pinckaers, Founder, Odoo, 0
Set up with a vision to transform the enterprise world, Odoo is an enterprise resource platform(ERP) from which one can manage all the business operations right from supply chain and project management, to accounting and HR to messaging SalesCRM, and reporting modules. The perfectly integrated apps enable the customer to automate and track whatever they do from anywhere, with any device.
In an exclusive interview with CEO Insights Magazine, Mantavya Gajjar gives us a detailed insight into Odoo's journey and tells us about the services and future roadmap for Odoo.
How is Odoo placed in the IT industry and what does the brand represent?
Odoo has been able to create a new market segment because of its natively integrated applications. There are many competitors who are up against sophisticated business challenges but Odoo has managed to decipher the pain points and solve these challenges by utilizing these natively integrated applications. At Odoo, we believe that business software should be able to cover complex needs with an extremely friendly user interface. We go above and beyond ERP and CRM and provide one-stop-shop solutions for all business challenges with highly integrated applications and futuristic technologies.
How is Odoo serving its customer? What are the impacts and benefits offered through the services?
Odoo hosts three different platforms based on customer needs, first is Odoo Online which is a SaaS, and it enables customers to access cloud instances from anywhere and at any time within a couple of clicks. Second is OnPremise, which can be deployed on the company's server to set up the whole hosting infrastructure and third is Odoosh, which is a custom made Odoo implementation that helps customers with easy installations of certified Odoo apps and third party apps available on the Odoo app store.
Our apps and programs are tailored according to the company's size and strength and provide various business administration tools including CRM, Project Management, and manufacturing. The ERP system focuses on integrating corporate processes allowing realtime business process monitoring and alert notifications across departments, enterprise level strategy planning, flexibility in adding apps, manufacturing and supply chain management and tracking of recruitment, hiring and payroll.
How does the company ensure the safety of its clients while providing one point solutions through software?
Odoo offers a comprehensive solution to all business needs through easy customization and integration of the ERP solution. The customer who is already using Odoo doesn't need to get the assistance of any other ERP tool, and the software solution ensures that the Odoo partners are easily available for technical support and training assistance. With a modern and technical design, Odoo's framework is unique and is breaking the barrier with its user friendly nature.
How is Odoo different from other players in the market?
Today, the way different functional units of an organization contribute to its growth has transformed progressively and hence, the challenges for them also have undergone changes. It goes well beyond integrating sales, purchase, inventory and manufacturing departments which directly contribute to the growth of modernday organizations. Today, besides the core business processes, they are in dire need to integrate a lot of other activities such as marketing campaigns and customer communication. Our family of apps works seamlessly together giving you the ability to automate and track everything you do centralized, online, and accessible from anywhere with any device.
Tell us about the technological framework built within the company's solution and what does the future roadmap look like for Odoo?
Odoo provides a one stop solution for anything a business would require to succeed in its domain, and that's why you don't need to jump between multiple applications serving a single purpose. The simple yet complete and consistent interface throughout all the screens is quite easy to adapt. Being an opensource product, Odoo is written in Python, Javascript, and XML. and as Odoo is cloud based, you can literally run your business from your handset no matter where you are. Features like Odoo Studio allows businesses to build their own custom applications without any coding knowledge. Odoo Studio is an intuitive user-friendly app builder with drag and drop blocks making and creating apps with or without developer skills. Businesses can design the apps they need in minutes rather than weeks.
Right from the beginning, Odoo strives for customer satisfaction, while solving its ultimate business challenges. Started as a one man firm in Belgium, today Odoo has over 1250 partners and 2500+ employees, and 4 million users globally. Odoo has moved far beyond the boundaries of traditional ERP players across the globe. In the years to come the firm aspires to work toward advanced ways to make living easy for customers while improving business efficiency.
Fabien Pinckaers, Founder, Odoo
Combining the love for business and technology from the early age of 13, Fabien Pinckaers established Tiny ERP in the year 2005 in Belgium, which grew into Open ERP in 2009 before transforming into Odoo in 2014 enabling an open-source business management software.
Odoo offers a comprehensive solution to all business needs through easy customization and integration of the ERP solution. The customer who is already using Odoo doesn't need to get the assistance of any other ERP tool, and the software solution ensures that the Odoo partners are easily available for technical support and training assistance. With a modern and technical design, Odoo's framework is unique and is breaking the barrier with its user friendly nature.
Being a top-tier suite of open-source business applications, Odoo aims to provide software that is intuitive, full featured, tightly integrated, and effortless to upgrade while ensuring a seamless experience for businesses and users
How is Odoo different from other players in the market?
Today, the way different functional units of an organization contribute to its growth has transformed progressively and hence, the challenges for them also have undergone changes. It goes well beyond integrating sales, purchase, inventory and manufacturing departments which directly contribute to the growth of modernday organizations. Today, besides the core business processes, they are in dire need to integrate a lot of other activities such as marketing campaigns and customer communication. Our family of apps works seamlessly together giving you the ability to automate and track everything you do centralized, online, and accessible from anywhere with any device.
Tell us about the technological framework built within the company's solution and what does the future roadmap look like for Odoo?
Odoo provides a one stop solution for anything a business would require to succeed in its domain, and that's why you don't need to jump between multiple applications serving a single purpose. The simple yet complete and consistent interface throughout all the screens is quite easy to adapt. Being an opensource product, Odoo is written in Python, Javascript, and XML. and as Odoo is cloud based, you can literally run your business from your handset no matter where you are. Features like Odoo Studio allows businesses to build their own custom applications without any coding knowledge. Odoo Studio is an intuitive user-friendly app builder with drag and drop blocks making and creating apps with or without developer skills. Businesses can design the apps they need in minutes rather than weeks.
Right from the beginning, Odoo strives for customer satisfaction, while solving its ultimate business challenges. Started as a one man firm in Belgium, today Odoo has over 1250 partners and 2500+ employees, and 4 million users globally. Odoo has moved far beyond the boundaries of traditional ERP players across the globe. In the years to come the firm aspires to work toward advanced ways to make living easy for customers while improving business efficiency.
Fabien Pinckaers, Founder, Odoo
Combining the love for business and technology from the early age of 13, Fabien Pinckaers established Tiny ERP in the year 2005 in Belgium, which grew into Open ERP in 2009 before transforming into Odoo in 2014 enabling an open-source business management software.