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Practical insights, real project lessons, and sharp opinions on Odoo, ERP, and digital transformation. No theory. Just what actually works.

The Pile on Your Desk Isn’t a Paper Problem. It’s a Data Problem.

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Gert
Gert
Business process management expert

You know the drill. Invoices arrive as PDFs. Contracts get scanned and saved somewhere. Delivery notes end up in a folder no one checks. Your team types numbers from one screen into another. Someone makes a mistake. Someone else catches it — eventually. This is not an edge case. For most growing Belgian SMEs, this is Tuesday. The promise of digital transformation has been around for decades. And for most of that time, the tools weren’t ready. Until now.

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Our Wishlist for Odoo 20

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Jasper
Jasper
Integration expert

Odoo 19 landed in September 2025 with a dedicated AI App, ESG tracking, and over 300 feature improvements. It was a strong release. But after spending months implementing v19 for clients and running it internally, we have a clear view of what's still missing, and what Odoo 20 (expected September 2026) should address.

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AI in Odoo: What It Actually Does (and What It Doesn't)

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Jasper
Jasper
Integration expert

Every software vendor is adding "AI" to their pitch deck. Most of the time, that means a chatbot bolted onto the side of an existing product. Sometimes it means autocomplete with a different label. Occasionally it means something useful. Odoo 19 is in the "occasionally useful" category, and more than that in a few specific places. But to know where the value is, you have to cut through the marketing and look at what actually works for a growing SME.

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How to Know When You've Outgrown Your Systems

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Niels
Niels
Enterprise architect

It starts small. A spreadsheet here. A workaround there. Someone builds a formula that nobody else understands. Someone else keeps a personal version of the client list because the shared one is never up to date. For a while, it works. Or rather — it doesn't break visibly enough for anyone to stop and fix it. Then you hire your fifteenth person. Or your thirtieth. And the cracks become canyons.

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Lessons from the Field: What 3D Printing Taught Us About Implementing Software

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Wouter
Manufacturing expert

A flipside founder's years at Materialise, Belgium's pioneering 3D printing company, shaped how flipside approaches ERP implementations today. The core lesson: the gap between how software is designed and how work actually gets done is where implementations fail. You can't automate a process you don't understand, and you can't understand it from a flowchart. You have to walk through it with the people who do it daily. The piece draws four parallels between manufacturing discipline and business software: processes built for 10 people break at 50, tribal knowledge is a liability, software is only as good as the process underneath it, and the people doing the work always know more than those managing it. The throughline: start with the pain, not the tool.

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