4 ms·

> I feel there is a lot of room to develop better tools that are not so horrid, however, the process for replacing SAP will be long and close to impossible. Pe

> I feel there is a lot of room to develop better tools that are not so horrid, however, the process for replacing SAP will be long and close to impossible. Personally, I rather liked the approach that Oodoo takes: https://www.odoo.com/ https://www.odoo.com/ It tries to be pretty modular and even the cloud hosted plans can be mixed and matched, in addition to which the apps can be self-hosted for free: https://www.odoo.com/page/all-apps https://www.odoo.com/page/all-apps Of course, attempting to compare it to something like SAP is a bit like comparing OpenProject with Jira or something along those lines: where one of the solutions is way more popular and recognizable, even if the other could be serviceable in certain scenarios. It's pretty clear which one will be picked by most of the enterprises, though.

zitterbewegung 4y ago
Customizing odoo is a nightmare it is similar to "It doesn't do everything you want, but it does everything your business needs". (quote by Larry Ellison about Oracle ERP). Underneath its a mess but at least its open source.
- Vanderson 4y ago
  We are doing an Odoo implementation right now. (a few months in) What did you find is a mess about Odoo? And why is customizing it a nightmare?
  - silvershell 4y ago
    Hi, Vanderson. I'm doing the same thing here where I work. I would be interested in sharing experiences. You can contact me via my profile if you'd like to chat more about it. I would say from my part it's been a good choice, but so much complexity to deal with.
    - Vanderson 4y ago
      I actually have not touched any of the code yet as we are using a 3rd party developer to help us. (I will likely work on templates and other things down the road) My experience when evaluating Odoo was using Studio, which I have found can really mess up your Odoo instance. Are you working with Odoo code directly?
      - silvershell 4y ago
        No. We are using a 3rd party developer, too. But I'm interested in eventually becoming a developer/consultant for the product. I already do python programming at my current job, too.
  - zitterbewegung 4y ago
    SQL database was a large amount of tables alike and if you try to add a feature that it doesn't implement yet (such as drop shipping capabilities) I couldn't figure it out because its not as simple as creating a new set of forms like in Django you basically have to understand the whole system and I think the task would take a year. It would have been better to integrate an existing system instead.

zitterbewegung 4y ago

Customizing odoo is a nightmare it is similar to "It doesn't do everything you want, but it does everything your business needs". (quote by Larry Ellison about Oracle ERP). Underneath its a mess but at least its open source.

Vanderson 4y ago
We are doing an Odoo implementation right now. (a few months in) What did you find is a mess about Odoo? And why is customizing it a nightmare?
- silvershell 4y ago
  Hi, Vanderson. I'm doing the same thing here where I work. I would be interested in sharing experiences. You can contact me via my profile if you'd like to chat more about it. I would say from my part it's been a good choice, but so much complexity to deal with.
  - Vanderson 4y ago
    I actually have not touched any of the code yet as we are using a 3rd party developer to help us. (I will likely work on templates and other things down the road) My experience when evaluating Odoo was using Studio, which I have found can really mess up your Odoo instance. Are you working with Odoo code directly?
    - silvershell 4y ago
      No. We are using a 3rd party developer, too. But I'm interested in eventually becoming a developer/consultant for the product. I already do python programming at my current job, too.
- zitterbewegung 4y ago
  SQL database was a large amount of tables alike and if you try to add a feature that it doesn't implement yet (such as drop shipping capabilities) I couldn't figure it out because its not as simple as creating a new set of forms like in Django you basically have to understand the whole system and I think the task would take a year. It would have been better to integrate an existing system instead.