Daniel Reis - Odoo 15 Development Essentials

Enhance your Odoo development skills to create powerful business applications

Daniel Reis

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Thanks to Maria Jos Reis for all the companionship and support. This and the previous books are a joint achievement.

Daniel Reis

It is an easy time to be an Odoo developerand that wasn't always the case. In 2010, when I first discovered OpenERP, the documentation was the codeand that was it. Knowledge was widely dispersed and shallow, and the Odoo community was just a mirage. Everything we all learned was through hard-won victories and transmitted as tribal lore between pioneers.

Fortunately, a few people started writing down these lessons, making it easier for all that followed. I must acknowledge the work that Fabien himself did in fostering this effort. Daniel, Holger, Alex, and others built on this foundation, and now, we all benefit from their largely unrecognized efforts.

The Odoo community has rocketed forward on a trajectory that all of us hoped for, but none of us were sure how it would be done. Out of many free or open source software projects, Odoo emerged as the most successful to tackle the enterprise resource planning market, solving business problems with freedom and flexibility.

I am consistently amazed at the creativity and productivity that Odoo developers demonstrate. Odoo attracts an especially curious, inspired sort of developer, and I think this book will be a great help to people at all levels.

Finally, there is a questionhow do I use Odoo to solve my business goals? That is where the art is. This book does a good job of explaining how to build an application, but the trick is in how to build the right application. Development effort alone isn't enough to solve complex supply chain, manufacturing, or sales challenges. Thorough business analysis and optimization are key to a successful projectand one of the people that I think demonstrates this best is Daniel Reis. This book gives a few hints here and there that business process optimization is as important as good code.

Here's to Fabien, Odoo S.A., and to the communitymay we continue to work together as friends and colleagues for decades to come.

Greg Mader

Founder and president of Open Source Integrators

Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors.

He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member.

He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.

Bhavesh Odedra has been an innovative software developer since 2012 working on the open source ERP software development lifecycle from concept through delivery of next-generation modules and customizable solutions. He started his journey with Odoo (formerly OpenERP) in 2012. He has been an active contributor to the Stack Overflow developer community and the Odoo Community Association since 2013 and is currently a delegate member of the Odoo Community Association. Currently, he works at Open Source Integrators in the United States as an implementation engineer.

Ashish Singh Bhatia is a reader and learner at his core. He has more than 13 years of rich experience in different IT sectors, encompassing training, development, and management. He has worked in many domains, such as software development, ERP, banking, and training. He is passionate about Python and Java and has recently been exploring R. He is mostly involved in web and mobile development in various capacities. He likes to explore new technologies and share his views and thoughts through various online media and magazines. He believes in sharing his experience with the new generation and also takes part in training and teaching. Currently, he is working with Odoo's India office.