[pinky07]

Just an example: when I send an email marketing campaign with Odoo, I have all the stats attached: the usual # clicks, open rate, ... but also # Leads, # Orders, Revenues.

Because Odoo as it all:

- You send an email with link tracker (Email Marketing App)

- The visitor goes on website (Website App)

- He fills a form that creates an opportunity (CRM App)

- 4 weeks later a sales make a quotation (Sales App)

- After Delivery (Inventory App)

- We send the invoice to the customer that books revenue (Accounting App)

So, you get the revenue for every email sent. Imagine that power for everything. (eg. stock is common between eCommerce, CRM, POS - Wommunication on whatsapp, SMS, chat, emails are centralized for helpdesk, ...)

But the main advantage is convenience. Once you use Odoo, everytime you have a need, you can install an app in one click that fully integrates with your stack. No need for developers to integrate, to call vendor to buy software, ...

The complexity of an IT stack grows with the square of the number of software components it contains. Most Odoo clients run everything on Odoo, eliminating the need for integrations and significantly reducing overall complexity.

Odoo SA (my company) has 6700 employees: we only use 2 software to run everything: Odoo and Google Workplace.

[jna_sh]

> has 6700 employees

I noticed this on your site recently whilst evaluating Odoo for a use case, and I’m glad I get the opportunity to ask…why? That seems an astronomical amount for this product. This isn’t a criticism, I am just genuinely curious about the business.

[pinky07]

Imagine we develop: Shopify + Wix + Quickbooks (accounting in 140 countries) + Netsuite + Asana + Discord + SAP + DocuSign + Payroll + ... 30 other apps.

On the service side, we onboard 14.000 new clients per month. (need a lot of sales too for that). Projects varies from a 5 users company (4 hours of service), to 5000 users. (1 year implementation for a team of 5)

The spread in people is more or less: 30% developers, 30% consultants, 30% sales.

In addition to our 6700 employees, we also have a large partner network: 200k FTE working on Odoo (selling, developing, doing services). They developed 50k apps, and onboard tens of thousands of companies per month.

[jstummbillig]

What does Google Workspace do for you that Odoo can't?

[pinky07]

Gmail, Docs, Slides...

Odoo is not an alternative to Gmail. (We have a spreadsheet app, but more for reporting purposes)