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Keeping your company operational and your employees productive
We are all experiencing exponential challenges to keep our businesses operational and enabling our employees to work safely from home whilst maintai...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— March 2020 — 203 views covid-19 home working managed services

Tips for seamless POS and ERP integration
Does your business process sales directly from customers? Perhaps you are a retailer, a hospitality or leisure business, a visitor attraction? Soone...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— March 2020 — 60 views Cloud ERP Odoo ERP Point of Sale System integration

How ERP integrated with CRM enhances customer experience
‘The customer is always right.’ It’s a cliché for a reason. Foreground your customers in everything you do – try to think in terms of their goals, n...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— February 2020 — 87 views Cloud ERP Customer Experience Odoo Odoo ERP

What’s new in Odoo 13?
The latest iteration of Odoo, version 13, was released at the end of 2019 – and we think there is plenty to get excited about. In this blog, we’re t...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— January 2020 — 248 views Odoo 13 Odoo ERP

Six reasons to choose Odoo
Readers familiar with Smart IT will know that we are evangelical about using Odoo for your enterprise resource planning (ERP) needs. It is one of th...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— January 2020 — 129 views ERP Odoo

How to ensure a successful rollout of your HR system
So, you’ve decided the time is right to deploy an HR system within your organisation. You’ve gone through the process of defining your needs, review...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— November 2019 — 359 views Cloud ERP HR HR Software Odoo

Five reasons an HR system will keep your MD happy
Has your organisation invested in a digital HR system yet? Business analysts, heads of finance, IT directors – plenty of organisational stakeholders...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— September 2019 — 353 views Cloud ERP HR HR Software

How an HR system will help you attract and retain talent
People are your organisation’s greatest asset. It’s an old mantra. Attracting and encouraging the very best talent to join your organisation, and nu...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— August 2019 — 262 views Cloud ERP HR HR Software Odoo

How to choose the best HR software for your business
So you’ve decided the time is right to invest in HR software. But with a bewildering array of choices out there, how do you know what is right for y...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— August 2019 — 445 views Cloud ERP HR HR Software

Cloud ERP vs traditional on-premise: why you should consider Odoo
In 2016,  Forrester reported [1] that the market for enterprise resource planning (ERP) software was moving clearly towards the cloud, with 43% of o...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— July 2019 — 669 views Cloud ERP Odoo On-premise

Why your growing business needs CRM
One of the challenges for any new and growing business is the timings and nature of decisions regarding the deployment of enterprise technology. Man...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Sara Brian
— July 2019 — 504 views Cloud ERP CRM Opportunity management Sales software

How cloud ERP is transforming the manufacturing industry
We blogged recently about some of the massive array of benefits that manufacturing businesses can achieve by deploying enterprise resource...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— July 2019 — 513 views Cloud ERP ERP Manufacturing Odoo

The benefits of ERP for UK manufacturers
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is sector-neutral. Its capabilities in automating and unifying organisations’ back-office processes, cre...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— May 2019 — 643 views ERP Manufacturing Odoo

The importance of digital taxation
Making Tax Digital (MTD) is, in the  None [1] government’s own words , part of ‘HMRC’s ambition to become one of the most digitally advanced tax ad...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— May 2019 — 454 views digital taxat

Excel overload: 5 reasons your company needs HR software
Every business has to start somewhere. But there is only so far a spreadsheet will get you. Which is why all successful businesses eventually opt t...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— April 2019 — 734 views ERP Excel HR Software

10 great new features in Odoo 12
There is always room for improvement. So, when the (already pretty great) Odoo released version 12 in October last year, we knew there would be some...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— March 2019 — 937 views Feature rich ERP Odoo ERP Odoo V12

How to choose an Odoo ERP partner
You’re looking for an ERP system and you’ve settled on Odoo. Great choice. Odoo might be relatively new to the ERP scene, but it’s been making big w...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— March 2019 — 975 views ERP ERP Partner Odoo ERP

The business case for adopting Odoo
In our previous match-up between Odoo Enterprise and SAP Business One, we compared the two leading ERP systems to find out who came out on top for t...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— January 2019 — 978 views ERP Odoo ERP

Odoo vs SAP Business One: what’s best for SMEs?
If your business wants to improve its performance, an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system can be a solid investment. However, it isn’t as simp...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— January 2019 — 1362 views ERP Odoo ERP SAP Business One

Odoo project costs: how to plan
So, you’ve decided to deploy Odoo HR, the open source Human Resource Management System (HRMS). Unsurprising, really – the suite of apps within the s...
Smart Information Technologies Limited, Barry Bullen
— November 2018 — 1067 views ERP ERP project costs Odoo ERP