Odoo at TechCastle: the Alexandria Roadshow, and how we implement
TechCastle was the official sponsor of the Odoo Roadshow in Alexandria. Here is what we do on Odoo, and the four phases every implementation goes through before a company goes live.
Official sponsor of the Odoo Roadshow in Alexandria
In May 2025 Odoo brought its Roadshow to Alexandria, and TechCastle was its official sponsor. The sessions filled the hall: business owners, finance managers and operations managers from Alexandria and the Delta came to see what an ERP changes in a company that has outgrown spreadsheets.
Our team spent the day at the TechCastle stand, going through the question most visitors arrive with: not “which software”, but “what will actually change in how we work”. That is the conversation we prefer — it is also where our implementations start.
How we implement Odoo: four phases
Every Odoo project we run follows the same path. The order matters more than the speed: a system configured before anyone has written down how the business works is a system that will be fought, not used.
- Gap analysis and blueprinting — detailed workshops on your real purchasing, sales, stock and accounting flows, and on every system the new one has to talk to. The phase ends with a written Business Requirement Document that both sides sign off on.
- Implementation and customization — server setup and Odoo installation, then module configuration and workflow mapping built on that document, with the customizations and integrations it called for.
- Data migration and training — importing the master data a company cannot start without: customers, vendors, the chart of accounts, products and opening balances. Then training built on your own configured system, not on generic course material.
- Go-live and support — the system starts, and we stay close through the first weeks, when the questions are many and the answers need to be fast. After that the relationship continues on an annual support contract.
What else we do on Odoo
As an official Odoo partner we work on Odoo Enterprise and Community, from version 14 to version 20, for more than 50 client companies across more than 15 industries. Egyptian e-invoicing (ETA) and Saudi e-invoicing (ZATCA) are part of the build, not an afterthought, and so are the integrations with payment gateways and online stores.
Not every company needs a full implementation. For smaller businesses we package Odoo as Al-Tager Online — cloud point of sale, inventory and accounting with the Egyptian e-invoice and e-receipt, on a subscription. And because hosting and payments usually come up in the same conversation, we are an authorized agent for Link Data Center and for Fawaterak.
Once a system is live, it is answered: more than 100 clients are on an annual support contract with us, with a response in 1 to 48 hours depending on the severity of what broke.
