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Odoo, custom software and AI. What to set up, in what order, and with whom.

Practical guides for the people who decide: how an Odoo project is scoped and run, when custom software is worth building, which AI uses deserve a pilot, and what the rules require in France and the Gulf.

Written by the team that delivers these projects: official Odoo Partner, 45+ projects since 2021, offices in Strasbourg and Bahrain.

Odoo for a contracting company in Bahrain: projects, timesheets, progress billing, retention and subcontractors
Odoo & ERP19 min read

Odoo for a contracting company in Bahrain: projects, timesheets, progress billing, retention and subcontractors

What a construction, MEP, fit-out or engineering contractor in Bahrain needs from Odoo: one project per contract with milestones and tasks, timesheets that carry real labour cost, an analytic account per site, progress invoices from milestones or percentage of completion, down payments, a clear way to book retention, subcontractor purchase orders with bill control, materials and equipment from stock, and a profitability dashboard the project manager and the accountant both trust.

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Odoo for a trading and distribution company in Saudi Arabia: inventory, imports, multi-currency and bilingual invoicing
Odoo & ERP17 min read

Odoo for a trading and distribution company in Saudi Arabia: inventory, imports, multi-currency and bilingual invoicing

What a Saudi trading, wholesale or distribution company needs from Odoo: warehouses and routes, reordering rules, landed costs with customs duty and freight, FIFO or average cost valuation, purchases in dollars, euros or yuan with riyal accounting, B2B price lists and credit control, barcode picking and delivery batches, Arabic and English invoices cleared by ZATCA, and the reports that show margin per customer and ageing stock.

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Odoo HR and payroll in Bahrain: GOSI, LMRA work permits and the Wage Protection System
Odoo & ERP14 min read

Odoo HR and payroll in Bahrain: GOSI, LMRA work permits and the Wage Protection System

What a Bahrain employer needs from Odoo HR and payroll: employee files with CPR and work-permit expiry, Labour Law hours, overtime and leave, GOSI contributions for Bahraini and expatriate staff, the LMRA Wage Protection System file, work-permit fees and end-of-service rules, and what has to be built because Odoo ships no Bahrain payroll localization.

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How to choose an Odoo partner in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia: the questions to ask before you sign
Odoo & ERP11 min read

How to choose an Odoo partner in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia: the questions to ask before you sign

The partner decides more of an Odoo project’s outcome than the edition does. How to verify an official Odoo Partner, the ten questions to ask about localization, team, scope, migration, custom code, hosting, training, support, references and exit, and the red flags.

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Odoo for VAT and e-invoicing in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia: what a compliant setup looks like
Odoo & ERP9 min read

Odoo for VAT and e-invoicing in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia: what a compliant setup looks like

Bahrain’s 10 % VAT and NBR invoice rules, Saudi Arabia’s ZATCA Fatoora e-invoicing (phase 1 and the phase 2 integration waves), and how Odoo’s Bahrain and Saudi localizations handle them: taxes, bilingual invoices, QR codes, UBL XML, onboarding and go-live.

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Cover card, in French: “Impulsion IA 2027 — train before you deploy” (Azinove)
AI & Automation5 min read

Impulsion IA 2027: training, SMEs and the world of work

AI adoption is rising, training is lagging. Impulsion IA 2027 targets that gap — and small businesses first.

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Cover card, in French: “SOTEU 2026 — AI in the factory, not just on the screen” (Azinove)
AI & Automation5 min read

SOTEU 2026: Europe wants AI in the factory, not just on the screen

On 16 September 2026, Ursula von der Leyen named artificial intelligence as one of the “tipping points” of our time. The message for the leaders of SMEs and mid-sized companies: the value lies in industrial application — health, transport, agri-food, advanced manufacturing, defence and space — with one clear red line: AI must keep humans in control.

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Cover card, in French: “Osez l’IA turns one — SMEs and mid-sized companies, where to start” (Azinove)
AI & Automation5 min read

Osez l’IA turns one: what SMEs and mid-sized companies can do in practice now

On 3 September 2026, the French Ministry of the Economy reviews the first year of the national Osez l’IA plan. 2030 targets, ambassadors, Diagnostics Data IA, a catalogue of 88 solutions: a practical guide for a management team that wants to move forward without getting lost.

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How to choose an AI agency in France in 2026: a buyer’s guide
AI & Automation13 min read

How to choose an AI agency in France in 2026: a buyer’s guide

A buyer’s guide from Azinove: generate versus integrate, the questions worth asking, and which kind of firm fits which need — plus a ten-agency landscape built only on public, checkable facts.

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Official Odoo Partner · Strasbourg and Isa Town

An Odoo, AI or software project to scope?

Azinove, founded in 2021, has delivered 45+ projects: Odoo implementation, custom software and AI on our own GPUs, from Strasbourg and Isa Town, Bahrain. Thirty minutes is enough for a first opinion.