Technology, AI & ERP — explained in plain English
Odoo 20 lets you assign activities to a role instead of only a person, makes meeting activities more informative, and adds a drag-to-unschedule side panel to calendar views. The Calendar app also gains multiple and shared team calendars, faster Google and Outlook sync, and the Meet with view of colleagues’ calendars.
One database, one product catalogue, and a point of sale configuration per register: Odoo’s multi-location model keeps every store selling from its own stock on shared data. Odoo 20 adds simplified inventory for small sites, multiple printers per POS, multiple currencies at checkout, a restrictive Supervised access level, and cleaner end-of-session accounting for chains.
The Maintenance app turns every stoppage into a tracked request whose duration, work-center blocking, and automatic MTBF and MTTR statistics make downtime measurable instead of anecdotal. Odoo 20 adds dedicated Gantt views for maintenance requests and lets each maintenance team customize its own stages.
Translating a foreign subsidiary’s books at historical, average, and closing rates guarantees an imbalance, and accounting standards park it in equity as the Cumulative Translation Adjustment. Odoo 20 adds an auditable CTA line to the balance sheet, trial balance, and general ledger that balances those discrepancies automatically.
The Bloch sphere turns every pure single-qubit state into a point on a sphere, with theta setting the balance between 0 and 1 and phi encoding relative phase. This guide explains the poles, the equator, gates as rotations, and what the sphere cannot show.
A production upgrade cannot be undone, but Odoo’s upgrade platform will convert a copy of your database into a neutralized Odoo 20 test environment for free. This guide covers the request routes for Online, Odoo.sh, and self-hosted databases, what neutralization disables, and how to test so the rehearsal predicts go-live.
Odoo 20 lets you filter the chatter to show conversations or tracked changes, and emails logged in the chatter now show who was in CC. Underneath, tracking messages are generated on the fly instead of stored — a quiet rebuild with real upgrade implications for custom code.
Every POS order ends with a payment and a receipt, and Odoo 20 refines both: multi-currency checkout, simplified receipts, multiple printers per POS, and automatic session journal entries. This walkthrough covers the payment steps, tips, bill splitting, receipt contents and delivery, and when to issue an invoice instead.
Odoo’s Quality app builds inspection into production and inventory flows through control points that generate checks and alerts that track failures to corrective and preventive action. Odoo 20 adds two targeted changes: quality admins can bypass checks on inventory transfers, and a failure location can be set the moment a check fails.
Odoo 20 replaces account groups with parent accounts as the way charts of accounts are structured, and makes account codes optional. Here is how the old code-prefix system worked, what the explicit parent-child hierarchy changes for reports and migrations, and how to design a clean chart under the new model.
A single score cannot tell you whether a RAG system failed at retrieval, grounding, or relevance. This article explains faithfulness, answer relevancy, context precision, and context recall in RAGAS and the RAG triad, and how to read them together to fix the stage that actually failed.
Odoo 20 replaces Font Awesome with Material Symbols across the whole interface, presents icons more cleanly on white backgrounds, and softens tag and status colours. Around that headline sits a sheaf of refinements — redesigned dialogs and labels, a simplified editor, and smarter search, navigation, and chatter touches.
Odoo 20’s restaurant mode runs service from a visual floor plan: table orders, manual and automatic courses, and a Send-and-Fire flow that feeds preparation displays and kitchen printers. This guide covers the full flow and separates Odoo 20’s additions — combo conversion, product snoozing, split-per-product tickets — from the long-standing machinery.
A BoM’s type decides whether a product is manufactured, bundled as a kit, or subcontracted, while by-products and Apply on Variants keep complex recipes maintainable. Odoo 20 adds BoM comparison, easier component replacement, and flexible consumption by default.
Odoo 20 lets you pay vendor bills directly from inside Odoo — individually or in batches, with a single signature — through the new PISP (payment initiation service provider) interface. This article walks through the flow, the controls that travel with it, and why availability depends on your bank and provider.
Every large language model starts the same way: predicting the next token, billions of times. This explainer covers teacher forcing, causal masking, cross-entropy loss and perplexity — the mechanics of the pre-training loop, in plain language.