4. Some figures
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Born in 2005
Founder: Fabien Pinckaers
180 employees
Offices in Belgium, India ,
Luxembourg and USA
Soon: Hong Kong
Worldwide cover OpenERP, it is
Present in more than 80
+ 1500 modules
Available in 22
countries languages
Community > 1100 members +1000 downloads per
day
5. Business Model
Sales
EDITOR Consultants
SaaS / SMALL
R&D Online BUSINESS
Partners
Partner Account
Recruiters Managers
Consultants
COMPANY
6. Business Model
6
How can we succeed with a licence-free product?
Marketing Marketing
Maintenance
Licence Sales Sales
PROPRIETARY EDITORS
15% R&D
25% 25%
Maintenance R&D Structure
OPEN ERP SA
20%
60% costs
20% Structure
45% costs
Services 35%
Services Profit
40%
Profit 40%
30% 30%
15%
INCOMES EXPENSE INCOME EXPENSE
7. How do we do it ?
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Revolutionary product Revolutionary
New generation business model
programming language Free download: everyone can
Modular approach allowing test the product in a few
incremental contributions clicks
Entirely web based Clients benefit from past
Same solution deployed on contributions and can
local servers and in the cloud contribute to the product
evolution
9. ERP
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ERP for Entreprise Examples:
Resource Planning Open source Proprietary
OpenERP SAP
Compiere Microsoft Dynamics
Definition:
Openbravo Oracle Applications
Integrated software solution that
incorporates the key business
functions of the organization
Key areas:
Accounting, purchasing, sales,
warehousing and manufacturing
11. Technical architecture
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3-tier architecture Programming languages:
Different ways to use: Python
Web JavaScript (AJAX)
Mobile XML
GTK CSS
12. 3-third architecture
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3 layers:
Presentation layer
Functional layer
Data layer
Database OpenERP Server Web Client
PostgreSQL Contains every business rule Use of a Web browser
o Open source Web server and OpenERP server are No installation required
Only tool accepable for the enterprise integrated o All the logic is on the server
world (robustness, functionalities, o Exchange speed side
etc.) o New possibilities Communication based on JSON-RPC
Isolated from the OpenERP Server OpenERP is« stateless » protocol
Contains the data, no business logic o Each transaction = o Standard protocol
independent o Allows other tools to interact
o Allows to switch from on server with OpenERP
to another
15. Useful tools for the users
Kanban view
15
Quick overview of the Functionalities:
information in Post-It Drag&Drop
notes Actions launching
Colors to distinguish
elements
16. Useful tools for the users
List and Search view
16
Display a limited Functionalities:
number of Search
elements for Grouping
quick analysis Action launching
17. Useful tools for the users
Form view
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Creation and
modification of new
records
Specification of each info
for a record
18. Useful tools for the users
Dashboard
18
Visualization of actions
made and actions to
make
Graphic visualization of
actions made and to
make
19. Demonstration
19
Look and Feel
CRM – Leads et Opportunities
Sales – Quotation and Sale order + Invoicing
Purchase – Request for quotation + Purchase Order
+ Invoicing
Warehousing– Reception and delivery of products
21. What our people do ?
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Research & Development: evolution and development of
the solution
technological and strategic orientation of OpenERP by continuous
improvement of
the technologies used
the core of OpenERP
Professional Services (consultants) provides all services
project management
consultancy (functional and technical)
support and migration of databases
Sales Department sells!
new partnerships
manages the relationship with existing partners
sells access to the OpenERP online platform
22. Organizational chart
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OpenERP (66)
Professional Administration
Sales (20) R&D (18) Finance (2)
Services (22) (4)
OpenERP Implementation
Partner Project &
Web dev. Entreprise assistance & HR
recruitment Consultancy
Services trainings
Channel Account System
Addons dev. Support Technical
management administration
Community
Direct Sales Framework dev. Migration Functional
management
Project
Sales support Useability Maintenance
management
Event
SaaS dev.
management
23. Our activities are executed by an international and multi-
background workforce
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Belgian team:
12 nationalities / 70 people
14 languages spoken
Each employee speaks at least 2 languages
15 varieties of educational backgrounds
24. An international workforce
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Belgian Romanian (3!)
Chilean
Vietnamese
Luxembourg
Spanish
Moroccan
Azerbaijanis
Indian French
Bulgarian
Venezuelian
British
25. Multi-background workforce
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R&D
Geeks without any certificate
Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science
Civil Engineers in Computer Science
Sales
Bachelors and Masters of all sorts (Commercial Science,
Marketing, Enterprise Management, Communication, Political
Science, Foreign Languages, etc)
Professional Services
Bachelors and Masters (mainly Business and Civil Engineers)
26. Let’s be practical…
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The developers
Develop, code, program
Care about technical challenges and bringing innovative and unexpected
features to deliver a revolutionary product
Do not focus on the clients needs and financial results
The sales
Talk, listen, argue, negotiate, fight
Care about selling and making money
Do not focus on bugs or difficulties to deliver some services
The consultants
Analyse, serve, think about client’s issues, face the bugs
Care about solving problems and making clients happy
Do not focus on sales promises
29. The 2d secret
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Our CEO and his team of Managers
Inspire us all to look into the same direction
Create the link between the teams
Value and explain the others’ job
Make us understand the complementarity of our jobs and goals
30. The 3d secret
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+
Our values and our
incredible sense of humour
31. And the last secret…
31
+
Beer Barbecue
…and all our events
32. OpenERP internships and jobs
32
OpenERP (66)
Professional Administration
Sales (20) R&D (18) Finance (2)
Services (22) (4)
OpenERP Implementation
Partner Project &
Web dev. Entreprise assistance & HR
recruitment Consultancy
Services trainings
Channel Account System
Addons dev. Support Technical
management administration
Community
Direct Sales Framework dev. Migration Functional
management
Project
Sales support Useability Maintenance
management
Event
SaaS dev.
management