Software Company Odoo Opens New Office In Kenya

Odoo has opened its very first African business in Kenya to handle the unique requires of Kenyan and African SMEs.

Before this calendar year, Patrick Lukusa was appointed as the director of Odoo KE LTD, the new subsidiary of Odoo S.A. opening in Africa. In a couple of months, the organization was incorporated, an business office was leased in Nairobi, and entirely in good shape out and recruitment begun with the goal to launch actions on July 1st with a headcount of 15 new colleagues (Income consultants and enterprise analysts).

“It was pretty critical for us to open this new business office and 2022 was the year to do it. We needed to be closer to our buyers and address them domestically, with community talents, which is a thing we are not able to realize from afar,” says Fabien Pinckaers, CEO & Founder of Odoo S.A.

Odoo S.A. presently experienced a client base in Africa. Its business enterprise purposes suite is indeed applied by far more than 7,5 million end users worldwide, but it lacked the local presence and assist. Additionally, SMEs are dealing with new troubles and can not preserve on functioning the way they did 10 or 20 yrs ago.

“Digitization are not able to be overlooked anymore. Today an SME in Nairobi or Abidjan faces the exact difficulties as 1 in Sydney, Madrid, or Mexico  in phrases of performance gains. We want to equip these SMEs with a modern, fully built-in suite of business purposes that can handle their requires at a fair value and boost their competitiveness”, describes Patrick Lukusa, director of Odoo KE LTD.

To make sure its capability to tackle the market’s requires, Odoo KE LTD has previously introduced several new characteristics specially designed for Kenya: Kenyan Chart of accounts, new eCommerce acquirers accepting payments procedures this kind of as credit score playing cards, debit cards, cell revenue (Mpesa, Airtel, MTN, etcetera) in the course of Africa, and the Kenyan Payroll.

Additionally, many new colleagues have been recruited, and properly trained and have already commenced obligation in the new office environment on Chiromo Lane, Westlands.

What’s up coming? A number of ambitions have been set for Odoo KE LTD, just one of which is to achieve a turnover of 250 million Kenyan Shillings (the equal to 2 million EUR) in calendar year one particular.