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Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

By : Greg Moss
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Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

By: Greg Moss

Overview of this book

Odoo is an all-in-one management software that offers an array of business applications, forming a complete suite of enterprise management applications. Odoo 11 comes with advances on usability, speed, and design. Working with Odoo 11 starts with how to set up Odoo, both online and on your own server. You’ll then configure the basic company settings required to quickly get your first Odoo system up and running. Later, you’ll explore customer relationship management in Odoo and its importance in a modern business environment. You'll then dive into purchasing applications with Odoo, learn some of the primary functionalities of ERP systems for manufacturing operations, and use analytic accounting to provide better reporting. After that, you'll learn how to work with Odoo for mobile, and finally, you will walk through the recent Odoo 11 features with respect to the community and enterprise edition, giving you a complete understanding of what Odoo can do for your business.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

What is a CMS?

The Website Builder application available for Odoo 11 is commonly known as a CMS (or content management system). A CMS is a collection of tools that allows you to structure, organize, and manipulate your website without having to interact directly with the inner workings of your website. A key feature of a CMS is the ability for nonprogrammers and those with little technical expertise to create and edit content on the website once the initial structure of the site has been designed.

In many ways, Odoo is coming into a very crowded market that has a great variety of both open source and paid CMSs that you can choose to build your website with. Here are a few popular website CMSs, all of which, at this point, have considerably more configuration options and significantly more installs than Odoo.

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