Roughly 40 integrated business apps forming a full ERP: Odoo's open-source suite runs companies end to end. The Community Edition, licensed LGPL-3.0, ships roughly 40 apps covering CRM, sales, invoicing, basic accounting (journals, chart of accounts, taxes, reconciliation), inventory and warehouse management with multi-step routes, manufacturing with BOMs and work orders, purchasing, project management, timesheets, HR, a website builder, and eCommerce. Each app works standalone, but they share one PostgreSQL database and one data model, so a confirmed sale updates stock, triggers procurement, and posts invoices without integration glue. The modular design means you enable only the apps you need and extend with 40,000+ community modules from the Odoo app store covering nearly any vertical requirement. Inventory supports multi-warehouse stock, reordering rules, and lot and serial tracking with barcode-ready operations; manufacturing ties BOMs, work orders, and work-center routing directly to sales demand and stock levels; and the website builder sells straight from your product catalog with payment provider integrations. You can start with just CRM and invoicing on day one and switch on inventory or eCommerce later - new apps integrate with existing data instantly because the schema is shared. The server is Python with an XML/JavaScript view layer, and because data lives in plain PostgreSQL there is no proprietary format: you can query, back up, migrate, and extend business data directly, with unlimited users and no per-seat licensing - where enterprise ERP pricing is per user per month, headcount here costs nothing.

New hires fail from information overload and IT bottlenecks, not lack of goodwill - the observation behind ChiefOnboarding, a free, open-source employee onboarding platform (Django, Celery, PostgreSQL, Redis). Its answer is sequences - drag-and-drop timelines that drip-feed to-do items, resources, courses, forms, and badges to each new hire, triggered by dates or by completing a previous item, so nobody faces everything at once. Onboarding starts before day one: preboarding pages welcome hires early, and colleagues can leave personal messages that appear there. The account provisioning module creates the new hire's Slack, Google, Asana, and other accounts automatically on the scheduled day via a library of integrations plus custom webhooks - the IT ticket queue never gets involved. Everything works through two equivalent interfaces: a full web dashboard and a Slack bot, either usable standalone. Slack can even auto-create new hire accounts when someone joins the workspace and assign default sequences with zero manual action. Colleague tasks with comments and collaboration, a searchable people directory, scheduled introductions, and per-hire timezone awareness (no 3 a.m. notifications) round it out. No trackers, no phoning home - third-party credentials sit in encrypted fields on your server.