Partnership with Odoo

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Brain Station 23

5 min readSep 17, 2017

Odoo is a Belgium-based company which offers a suite of management software ( which includes open source business apps) that covers all a company needs like CRM, ERP, e-commerce, accounting, inventory, the point of sale, project management, etc. OdooBusiness software includes sophisticated needs without being complicated. Additionally, provides software that is intuitive, full-featured, tightly integrated, effortless to upgrade and all while running smoothly for every business & every user.

Already Odoo got clients like Toyota, Chez Felix, Hyundai and some other global giants in their client list and many others are also migrating to Odoo from other ERP solutions like SAP, Oracle, etc

We, Brain Station-23 Limited have been outsourcing since 2006 & the client trail since then has been spread up to US, UK, Canada, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland’s, etc. Now we are not only a global name but also has a good hold on the local market as well. Brain Station-23 started working locally from 2012 and since then we have been serving top companies like The City Bank, AB Bank, IFIC Bank, Dhaka Mercantile Co-operative Bank Limited, Incepta Pharmaceuticals, Robi Axiata Limited, Bangladesh, Aristopharma Limited, British American Tobacco (BAT), Bangladesh, Beximco Pharma, Berger, Nissan etc. Our overseas client profile is also very prestigious. We have been working with British Telecom UK, Aareas Interactive Inc. Canada, Virtual Affairs, Splash 360 USA, Universal Tennis USA etc. Also staying in the top 10 software companies in Bangladesh for the last couple of years, Brain Station-23 had been awarded by BASIS (Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services) for last three years in a row. At present, we have 150+ employees where 130+ people are engineers.

We’ve always been keeping our uniqueness at implementing best processes and providing top talents to serve the client best possible way. We have been serving software world for over ten years and has been able to gain great international software development and implementation experience. This enables us to create the best process to help our clients. Over the years, we have taken our entire HR process to a different height to ensure hiring top talents, training and retaining them. Combining this two power of process and expertise has enabled us to have highest satisfaction and success rate with the clients, which resulted in 95% customer retention rate.

Since 2012 we have been serving Banks of Bangladesh. Then, from last year, we have started working with ERP as well to help our local business industries and to provide them with the best solutions needed for their business to grow to the next level. In 2016, we became Odoo’s partner to help ERP world the best possible way. Already we have Odoo clients from the US and Bangladesh doing customization, integration, and implementation work. A dedicated team of Odoo developers, business analyst and implementers are ready to serve the clients the best way for ERP implementation, Odoo implementation, customization, and integration with other platforms. After a lot of research and market study, we believe, Odoo is the best possible ERP available for both national & global market. So, we’ve become Odoo’s partner for making our client’s business successful by understanding the customer need, then customizing, integrating and implementing Odoo with proper Odoo support.

Find out how a company abandoned SAP because of Odoo’s flexibility-

SAP left for Odoo’s flexibility

The story of how Odoo started is interesting. The link below will run you through that exciting journey.

The Odoo Story

Odoo contains 30+ modules which are customizable according to individual requirements. In this blog, I’ll try to give some synopsis about 3/4 primary modules.

Odoo HRMS
What Odoo eases

Centralize all HR information
Timesheets and Attendance Tracking
Leave management
Streamlined Expense Management
Hiring Management
Build the Right appraisal
Improve the Communication between the Employees
Easy & fast tool
Complete control
Dynamic reports help to manage every days life
Integrated with other functions/modules
Simple and easy user interface
Very useful search across the screening facility
Customization can easily be done to suits needs
Dynamic features
Updated technology

Odoo CRM
What Odoo eases

Use leads to getting in the system unqualified but targeted contacts that may have gathered at a conference or through a contact form on a website. Those leads can then be converted into opportunities.
Call customers, manage a call queue, log calls, schedule calls and next actions to perform.
Integrate with Odoo Sales to create beautiful online or PDF quotations and turn them into sales orders.
Use email marketing for marketing campaigns to customers and prospects.
Manage business seamlessly, even on the go. Indeed, Odoo offers a mobile app that lets every business organize key sales activities from leads to quotes.

Odoo Inventory Management
What odoo eases

Easily create multi-warehouses with locations
Maintaining double entry management
Inventory controlling is powerful and flexible
Keep track of stock moves between warehouses (from where goods are coming in and going out)
Integrated with stock module

Fully Integrated with

Purchase
Inventory
Accounting

Like above module, Odoo got other modules like Sales Management, Purchase Management, Human Resource Management (HRM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Manufacturing, Accounting and Finance, Fleet Management, Point of Sale, Project Management etc.
And why Odoo is the best option for local business? Well, the answer to that question is because we’ve customized Odoo such a way so that it can match with our local business model. And on top of that Odoo is favorable because-