Tools & Best Practices for
New Odoo Partners
James ELLISON • Team Leader – Partnerships & Alliances
jel@odoo.com
2019
EXPERIENCE
Agenda
Partner Knowledge Base1
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Partner Dashboard
Training on Odoo Enterprise
Documentation
Webinars
Certification
Partner Knowledge
Base1
1Partner Knowledge Base
• Partner Knowledge Base
• Brand new
• Platform that centralizes information for all partners
• How to demo Odoo – How to qualify a lead – Odoo
Methodology – etc
• Odoo asks all new partners to have a thorough look at it
Partner Dashboard2
2Partner Dashboard
• Very important tool
• Find all relevant information regarding your
partnership:
- Leads and opportunities
- Contracts you are managing
- Codes for training resources
- Account Manager
- etc
2Partner Dashboard
• Importance of the Account Manager
- Key part of a successful partnership
- Precise communication channels
- Precise POC’s
- Frequent contact
- Inform AM on potential customers
Training on Odoo
Enterprise3
3Training on Odoo Enterprise
I. Scale UP business game
- Card based
- Interactive
3Training on Odoo Enterprise
II. eLearning Platform
- Why?
- What?
- How to use it?
3Training on Odoo Enterprise
III. Partner Success Packs
- What are they?
- Functional training
- Technical training
* Standard training
* Custom training
Documentation4
4Odoo Documentation
Technical documentation
- Focused on the backend
- Management of a DB
- API’s
4Odoo Documentation
Functional documentation
- Applications
- Configuration and flows
- …
Webinars5
5Webinars
1. Functional / User-oriented webinars
- Per application
- Per industry
2. Partner specific webinars
- Odoo methodology and best practices
- Mistakes to avoid as a partner
Certification6
Certification 6
• What is the functional certification?
• Why getting certified is important:
- Be a successful partner
- Needed to retain partnership level
- Credibility towards customers
Conclusion
1. What we expect from new partners
2. How to do it
- Have a look at the resources you are provided
- Train your team
- Contact your AM
- Be proactive
Thank you.
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Tools & Best Practices for New Odoo Partners