Not is standard. You need to train your costumer in this interface you can simply contract employees who knows Salesforce.
Edit: To be clear, I’m not saying your idea isn’t good. There is tons of room for this stuff, but be careful in assuming the reason devs use Salesforce platform is because of the features. It’s usually not.
Source: I ran dev tools at Salesforce.
Indeed. So, if one is going to customize the hell out of it anyway, with most of the functionality being extensions, then why not just use a free software core ? Vertical solutions providers might find profitable to serve their customers and not pay the Salesforce tax.
[0] https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-framework / https://ofbiz.apache.org/index.html
A problem I can see my mugg^H^H^H^Hcolleagues flinching at that UI and thinking "this can't be very good" just based on the UI; like it or not, looks matter.
The themes I saw are basically color schemes. Has anyone done a more "modern" UI/UX?
But yeah it is what most ERP tends to look like and then people make snazzy pages for specific sub flows for specific groups of users.
Odoo is doing quite well. It made Fabien Panckaers the youngest billionaire in Belgium.
OpenKoda and Odoo actually have sparked interesting questions for me about what an Open source ERP market would look like.
One conclusion I came to is as opposed to vendor lock-in as most ERP/CRM products try to enforce, it would actually be better to go the opposite direction (high compatibility with existing alternatives).
That said, have you guys considered allowing imports from Odoo into OpenKoda or other deep integrations?
In theory, I feel like you can run Odoo apps in OpenKoda, or even vice versa. The experience would be suboptimal but being split between two ERP systems is too.
It's not even about the cost, but about the limitations and poor development velocity.
These companies strive to build something innovative, they just find these closed platforms really cumbersome and slow to deliver.
When you start investing millions of dollars into a bespoke solution you really want to truly own it at some point. And this is impossible with closed and proprietary application platforms.
Sad to hear about Odoo's disjointed approach to enterprise monetization.
Hopefully OpenKoda takes note.
It's kind of a tragedy of the commons.
In other words, community edition should work transparently to enterprise edition, so migration is simpler.
Is there something in particular that's flawed with Odoo's business?
Here in Australia, Odoo is finally starting to hit some strides. We’re seeing more jobs in the market requesting Odoo experience, at our work we’re onboarding more customers than we have before. All said, I’m definitely going to fire up OpenKoda and brush up on my Java :)
Though I haven't done a formal review of which features are open and closed, and the xompany doesn't appear to document it anywhere, so I may be wrong. It seems like when I have looked into it in the past mostly it is a core framework with a few open source apps and whole bucnh of closed ones and the marketing doesn't clearly state what is open and closed.
Also custom integrations