OpenERP for

IT Services companies
Smile

Community, Customers and Partners Summit,

Brussels 2012

IT services companies market

Large market
All around the world
Thousands of companies
Different sizes (and different needs)

OpenERP natively fits with "small" IT

Service companies
CRM & Sale
services and software licences
Purchase
materials and subcontracting missions
quid for assets ?
Project & Billing
timesheet and project planning
billing from timesheets or project tasks

Our customer case

A large IT Consulting multi-company
> 1000 consultants (=users)
10 companies
A unique accounting and sales administration
service
> 100M turnover in 2010

Specificities for a large company

Ease of Use
No training possible for consultants => it must be
intuitive! (demo)

Performance
~200 concurrent users => it must be fast!
Business Processes Automatisation
Automatic billing from monthly cutoffs
Automatic calculation of turnover for next periods
Automatic generation for cross purchase/sale orders
between the companies of the group
=> it must be automated!

Specificities for a large multi-company

Billing in multi-company
A sales administrative must be able to validate any
invoice of any subsidiary => we adapt fields.property
Billing "on behalf of" to promote a unique trademark
Automatic Intercompany Billing & Cash Transfers

Accounting in multi-company
Automatic provisions for charges, etc.
Analytic in multi-company
Multi-axis analytic accounting / forecasting / budgeting

(> 30 axis)
Automatic complex distribution

Modules releases

Functional Addons (http://apps.openerp.com/?text_search=smile )

Smile Multi-company Billing / On behalf of

Smile Analytic Period / Forecasting
Smile Analytic / Budget Multi-Axis
Smile Workdays
Smile Action Trigger
Smile Import / Export
Smile SSO / Access Control
...

Web Matrix Widget (https://github.com/Smile-SA/smile_matrix_widget )