https://media.opendigital.info/videos/watch/16cb5297-fadc-4a70-996d-02c62c247232 Amit Parikh, founder of Browse Info and Odoo Gold Partner, shares his journey from interning at Odoo in 2008-2009 handling community bug fixing, to building a global implementation business serving governments and NGOs. Recorded at Odoo Experience 2025, the conversation covers the evolution of Odoo from OpenERP to today, the realities of ERP implementation as a business transformation project rather than software delivery, Browse Info's significant plans to donate around 500 of their 1,500 paid apps to the OCA, and why raising quality standards through OCA engagement is itself a business investment. Topics covered: Starting as an intern at Odoo R&D in 2008-2009, drawn in by the open source ethos, Handling community bug fixing when the product was still OpenERP, Observing Odoo's evolution: from no e-commerce, POS, or real manufacturing to today's full-featured platform, Founding Browse Info in 2012, deliberately avoiding partnership initially to stay open source, Becoming an Odoo Gold Partner in 2018/2019 as enterprise demand grew, Worldwide client base including government of Lesotho (Ministry of Health), government of Abu Dhabi, and the Isha Foundation (1,200 enterprise users, 8,000-9,000 community users), The enterprise vs community decision: driven in India by accounting localisation only being in enterprise, How Europe's OCA contribution culture provides localisations that aren't available in India, ERP implementation as a business/supply chain project, not a software project, The importance of creating vision with department heads before any implementation, 50-60% of effort going into training and user adoption, not deployment, User resistance: a 2-3 year journey to migrate Isha Foundation's 200 accounting staff from Tally to Odoo, Case study: food manufacturing implementation in Bali where Browse Info built features that later appeared in Odoo enterprise, Business model around free software: publishing paid apps on the Odoo App Store (1,500+ apps), Plans to donate 500-700 apps to OCA as open source, OCA engagement as a way to raise quality standards to European levels, Expanding into Brazilian and European markets, using OCA standards as a quality benchmark, Advice for newcomers: understand the business impact before writing a single line of code Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:53:58 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://media.opendigital.info https://media.opendigital.info/lazy-static/avatars/1c76e474-a93d-4a23-aec7-b854de60eea7.png https://media.opendigital.info/videos/watch/16cb5297-fadc-4a70-996d-02c62c247232 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://media.opendigital.info/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.