Implementation Methodology

You may have mastered the technical aspects of administering and using your enterprise management system, but you still have a great deal of work to do integrating Open ERP into your company. This work is more business-related and social in nature than technical.

The Open ERP implementation process encompasses several different phases: evaluation, planning, configuration, data migration, deployment, and user training, and affects both support and maintenance.

The management of ERP projects, and IT project management in general, are the subject of very many other books that you might want to investigate for yourself. The elements of the methodology presented here aren’t intended to be an exhaustive review, just a brief overview of the different phases necessary to implement Open ERP in your company

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Implementation

Implementation encompasses the whole process of integrating and deploying Open ERP, including evaluating it, establishing specifications, planning the deployment, the configuration of the software, loading data, installation and training the users. It doesn’t generally extend to software customization, nor support and maintenance.

• Requirements Analysis and Planning
  • Planning methods
• Deployment
  • Deployment Options
    • The SaaS (Software as a Service) offer
    • Hosting by a supplier
    • Internal Installation
  • Deployment Procedure
• User training
• Support and maintenance
  • Updates and Upgrades
  • Version Migration