Chapter 2. Installing Your First Application

You have learned about the various applications that Odoo has to offer and how you can install Odoo on your own system. Before the release of Odoo 8, most users were focused on ERP- and financial-related applications. Now, Odoo 8 has added several important applications that allow companies to use Odoo in much greater scope than ever before. For example, the website builder can be installed to quickly launch a simple website for your business. A task that typically would have been accomplished with a content management system such as WordPress.

Despite all these new options that are available in Odoo 8, the overall process is the same. We begin by looking at the overall business requirements and decide on the first set of applications we wish to implement. After understanding our basic objectives, we will create an Odoo database and configure the required company information.

Next, we begin exploring the Odoo interface to create and view...