Nowadays, every company needs automation to remain competitive and profitable.
In most cases, entrepreneurs are faced with the choice of using a ready-made solution or programming their own.
Both options have their advantages and disadvantages, and one will have to come to terms with the disadvantages of the chosen option for a long time, as the transition of the automation system in a functioning company is a painful and costly process.
This choice must be made right at the beginning of the activity, when many variables are still unknown, such as what needs to be further automated, what requirements the competition, the relationships with governments, and the internal structure of the company must meet in the automation process. This is why it is so difficult to make the right choice at the very start of the company.
Prefabricated solutions
The disadvantages of prefabricated solutions include:
Dependency on the solution provider
Inability to realise the desired functions
Delays in the external provider's response to the resolution of errors and the implementation of new relevant features
Own Software
In-house software development also has significant disadvantages
high development costs
slow development due to limited internal resources, which are not comparable in size to those of external software providers
Due to limited internal resources, new software features that are already available on the market will be introduced only with delays or not at all.
You are dependent on your developers, and if they leave you, you will have great difficulty finding new programmers, and they will have to deal with the code of other programmers.
What is a poor entrepreneur to do?
There is such a solution that combines both approaches - a ready-made solution and full openness for your own development. That is the Odoo platform.
It is an open-source software. 140,000 programmers around the world are working on the creation and development of this software. For this reason, Odoo has all the applications that an entrepreneur could ever need, and for this reason, all these applications are so mature that they surpass specialised applications from global industry leaders.
Furthermore, the code of all Odoo applications is completely open source. This means that entrepreneurs using Odoo are not restricted in any way when developing the features specifically required by them. The entrepreneur knows that these features can provide them with a competitive advantage in the market or enhance internal efficiency.
Was genau bietet der Ansatz von Odoo?
1) Due to the open-source nature of Odoo and the large number of developers, the vast majority of applications and features that an entrepreneur needs are already available. This means that you do not have to spend a lot of money to utilise these features.
2) Thanks to the huge number of developers and testers, bugs in the software are fixed very quickly, and new features or functions are introduced very rapidly when ideas emerge in the market.
3) The programming language Python is used in the development of Odoo, which is the second most popular programming language in the world. This means that you can always find programmers who can carry out the tasks you need when required.
4) When you see new automation opportunities, and all know-how is such an opportunity, you can automate and apply them yourself, without waiting for it to become a general trend and be automated for everyone. This gives you a competitive advantage and allows you to be among the best of the best with new approaches.
5) Thanks to the openness of the code, you do not have to wait for the software developer's response to fix bugs or implement your suggestions; you can do this yourself and as quickly as you deem necessary.
Conclusion
We can see that the use of open-source code in Odoo development allows us to avoid the usual limitations associated with software implementation. Now you can take advantage of both approaches - using standard solutions and in-house development - while simultaneously eliminating the drawbacks of these approaches.
In my opinion, the conclusion is obvious: Odoo