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VALUE PROPOSITION

IDEALIS CONSULTING AND ODOO JOINED THEIR FORCES TO HELP YOU

ENABLE THE MOST MODERN AND MOST AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGIES TO PRESIDE

OVER YOUR ERP, CRM & CMS APPLICATIONS; MODEL & BUILD THE BUSINESS APPLICATIONS,

WORKFLOWS AND TOOLS THAT WILL LEAD YOUR BUSINESS IN FRONT OF YOUR

COMPETITION AND HELP YOU GROW YOUR BUSINESS.

BUSINESS PARTNER … NO IT LOCK-IN

Using iterative, incremental & collaborative Agile development and transparent & cost-effective gap analysis, Idealis Consulting brings you its expertise to help you do the following: • analyze & model your business & reporting flows • design, configure & implement your business applications & workflows • build & implement customizations and localizations • host & run your business apps in the cloud.

Additionally, Idealis Consulting can help you review & revise your disaster recovery procedures and ensure that you meet your RPO (“Recovery Point Objective”) and RTO (“Recovery Time Objective”) when Idealis Consulting hosts your cloud.

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GAP ANALYSIS: INCREASING YOUR ACTUAL PERFORMANCE

Idealis Consulting actively participates in supporting your business model.

When an organization does not make the best use of its current resources or forgoes investment in technology, the company may produce or perform below its potential. It may dramatically impact the bottom line of the business and the company relationships with customers & prospects. The business model, i.e., the method of doing business by which a company can sustain itself and generate revenue, is under stress.

Idealis Consulting has elected to use the gap analysis methodology to resolve the aforementioned issue(s). Gap analysis involves comparing actual performance with potential or desired performance. That is, involves determining, documenting, and approving the difference between business requirements and current capabilities.

Idealis Consulting takes the gap analysis to the next level by ensuring that, regardless of the size of the company, SME or enterprise, ALL business actors, IT process owner(s), business workflow user(s), managers and stakeholders are consulted. Idealis Consulting prioritizes the areas of improvement (the gaps) by focusing on the core revenue-generating processes (and on the most unproductive cost-ineffective tasks):

• automation of low-value administrative tasks to refocus employees and IT resources on core competences

• Agile development of applications & tools to meet legal and compliant frameworks, implement custom procedures & local standards, and to make new functionality available

• availability of BI (“Business Intelligence”) tools, reports, dashboards, etc., on mobile devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, phablets, etc., to reach higher levels of efficiency in managing your customer relationships, your business, and your operations

• adequacy of your CMS (“Content Management System”) to run your website, blogs, news, and shopping according to the latest best practices.

TCO: IMPLEMENTING ACTUAL COST MANAGEMENT

Idealis Consulting actively participates in budget planning and cost controls.

Idealis Consulting calculates expected project costs while the gap analysis phase is closing, not before. Until the gap analysis has produced one or more iterations (for enterprise projects) of scope & priorities (which businesses process to model? which apps, features, reporting tools, etc. to develop? what data to configure? what training? is the cloud hosted? etc.), any attempt at pricing is a guesstimate at best.

Idealis Consulting converts the list of gaps of the current capabilities of your ERP, CRM, CMS, HCM & BI systems into a transparent list of services and products whose pricing can now be estimated using industry benchmarks.

Thus, Idealis Consulting sets up an effective cost management structure that allows to predict impending expendi-tures and to reduce the chance of going over budget.

During the implementation project, all expenses are recorded and monitored to make sure they stay in line with the cost management plan.

GAP ANALYSIS

BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING

CLOUD COMPUTING: OWNING YOUR TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP

Idealis Consulting helps you migrate your business apps to meet your planning and your budget.

No big bang approach necessary. Ever.

• Odoo provides a range of business applications that form a complete suite and touch each and every aspect of your company from warehousing to accounting. That is, Odoo packages modules whose rollout in production can be distributed over time according to a planned schedule. Odoo’s technology is 100% web-based. No software to install and to maintain.

• With standard-based interfaces, Odoo’s open source solutions are compatible with multiple technologies, including support for databases, lowest-cost commodity, hardware, operating systems and utilities

• Idealis Consulting helps you establish and prioritize a map of the gaps in your technology footprint; and analyze, design, build & test custom features and apps according to your actual business requirements.

That is right! You have total freedom and control over when and which apps to implement or to develop, when and which business flows to upgrade or to replace, when and which IT tools and APIs to install or to integrate.

Bottom line, you evolve at your own pace, respecting your budget, your needs, your schedule.

BCM: MITIGATING RISKS OF BUSINESS INTERRUPTION & REVENUE LOSS

Idealis Consulting helps you mitigate the risks related to the interruption of your IT services.

The purpose of Business Continuity Management («BCM») solutions is to minimize the impact of a disaster on the business and therefore on the sustainability of your company.

A disaster is an event that disrupts your ability to manage your business. If you accept the idea that a natural, technologi-cal or social disaster can interrupt the normal course of your business operations, you begin to understand the value and urgency of a disaster recovery plan:

• at the very minimum, the ability to restore your data. Idealis Consulting integrates data backup & restore in its hosting services.

• the ability to recover the IT environment to run your ERP, CRM and CMS applications. Idealis Consulting BCM services can incorporate the replication and the recovery of your IT environment.

• the ability to switch your IT operations to a mirror virtual environment in the cloud according to your RTO1 policy.

1 The Recovery Time Objective («RTO»), is the maximum acceptable time that an IT resource may not be functional after a major outage.

DESIGN, CONFIGURATION & IMPLEMENTATION: CONFIGURING SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR ACTUAL NEEDS

Idealis Consulting helps you design solutions that meet actual company needs.

Idealis Consulting leverages the flexibility of Odoo open source cloud; its own expertise in business process mode-ling, SaaS and cloud technology; the knowledge library available to the Odoo community via collaboration tools like emails, blogs, forums, etc., to design business solutions that fit individual business pains according to the size of the company:

• international, domestic or global enterprises that need a robust expert cloud solution that integrates their GRC (“Governance, Risk & Compliance”) framework and delivers cutting-edge technology in their core ERP, CMS, CRM, HCM & BI processes

• SMEs (“Small and Medium Enterprise”) that do not need to re-model their business flows but rather adopt industry best practices that demonstrate qualitative and quantitative benefits on the spot

• micro-enterprises that have little resources available and that require an automated, compliant, cost-savvy turnkey solution that delivers a competitive edge on the spot.

PARTNERSHIP

COMMUNITY OF EXPERTS: ENRICHING YOUR BUSINESS FLOWSOdoo’s community is 1750 functional and technical experts, 2,5M users, 660 partners across 130 countries, including Idealis Consulting.

Odoo’s community of experts actively participates in testing, maintaining, improving, enhancing, sharing your apps: • the community brings a wealth of new functionality. Open source means that customers can benefit from past developments of other companies. Also by contributing to the evolution of the software, your development will be included in future versions of the software … if you elect to do so.

• the community brings quality to the apps. Open Source allows to engage with customers differently. Since there is no licensing cost, any potential customer can download, test and use the software.

OPEN SOURCE IN THE CLOUD … NO COSTLY IT HODGEPODGE

Open-source Software (“OSS”) is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources.

OPEN SOURCE LICENSE: PAYING FOR SERVICES THAT ADD VALUE TO YOUR BUSINESSOpen source as a development model promotes a universal access via a free license to a product’s design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone.

That is right, open source means: • shift of IT budget from paying sterile licensee fees to investing in customization of apps that support your business model and comply with local laws, standards, and regulations.

Due to the availability of the software source code and its free manipulation, the customization tends to be easier.

• no vendor lock-in and minimum vendor dependency, which helps you to actively manage the costs of the project.

TCO (“Total Cost of Ownership”) quantifies the financial impact of deploying an IT product over its life cycle. These technologies include software, and hardware, and training.

MOBILE

CODE PUBLISHER: DELIVERING TOP-NOTCH CODE TO MEET YOUR BUSINESS NEEDSOpen source ERPs (“Enterprise Resource Planning”) are distinguished by a superior quality on the technical level. These superior quality standards are due to the commitment of open source vendors (like Odoo) against technical challenges.

More, Odoo exercises control over the quality and the compatibility of the code before the feature can be released and maintains the long-term product roadmap. That is, customers are not left dealing with a powerful although potentially chaotic development community of their core business apps. The long-term roadmap, which Odoo manages, does the following:

• helps reach a consensus about a set of business (practices, compliance, standards, performance, productivity) needs and the technologies required to satisfy those needs

• provides a mechanism to help forecast technology developments

• provides a framework to help plan and coordinate technology developments.

USER EXPERIENCE: BUILDING GREAT BUSINESS APPS THAT YOU WILL LOVE TO USEUser experience is at the heart of Odoo’s development modus operandi. User-centered design helps to optimize the product around how users can, want, or need to use the product, rather than forcing the customers to change their behavior to accommodate the product.

Focus on UE “(User Experience”) is key to deliver software systems that are:

• more intuitive to use, thus quicker to adopt. Users are consequently less opposed to comply with the changes.

• quicker to learn, thus cheaper to learn. Again, costs of running open source Odoo business apps are lower.

• more efficient at addressing business needs, which increases the employee’s performance.

IDEALIS CONSULTING CREATES SOLUTIONS AND EXECUTES STRATEGIES THAT ARE IDEAL FOR YOU.

OUR MISSION IS TO DELIVER TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS THAT CREATE GROWTH FOR YOUR BUSINESS.

OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR ORGANIZATION IS THE STRENGTH WE DRAW ON FOR IMPLEMENTING YOUR PROJECTS.

ANDRÉ BAKE CEO

Idealis Consulting is a leading Systems Integrator of the Odoo suite of business apps and of SAP solutions: SAP HCM, SAP SCM, SAP WM & SAP EWM. Idealis Consulting has been a Gold partner of Odoo since 2007.

Idealis Consulting specializes in CRM, logistics, human resources & talent management, ERP & e-commerce best practices as well as in accounting & financial management, business intelligence, governance and compliance. This, for all industries and for organizations of all sizes: large, global and international enterprises, SMEs (“Small & Medium Enterprises”).

Idealis Consulting models and implements customized business apps on premise as well as in hosting clouds for enterprises and larger SMEs, in order to help them grow their business, improve operative performance, reduce costs, and align their IT resources with their business strategy.

Idealis Consulting implements best practice solutions for small companies on premise and in hosting clouds, in order to help them re-organize their business processes and boost their performance in a legally compliant framework.

Idealis Consulting hosts the cloud for very small businesses, in order to help them implement e-Commerce and CRM solutions at the lowest TCO.

Odoo S.A. is the software vendor of the Odoo Apps (formerly OpenERP). Odoo is the fastest evolving business software in the world. Odoo offers a full suite of business apps of business applications covering all business needs, from

Website/Ecommerce down to manufacturing, inventory and accounting, all seamlessly integrated in order to cover the needs of very complex companies. Odoo is built to empower smaller companies to adopt it quickly and easily through a smooth, friendly user experience.

Odoo is the most installed business software in the world. Odoo is used by 2.000.000+ users worldwide ranging from very small companies (1 user) to very large ones (300 000 users).

Odoo is open source. It is actively maintained by a large base of developers to meet evolving customer needs and provide new, innovative applications to help companies worldwide grow their business. Odoo is a community of 130+ countries, 32+ languages, a network of 600+ partners (including Idealis Consulting, Gold Partner), 1500+ experts.

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