Nairobi, Sept. 1 -- For many Kenyan businesses, keeping track of sales, stock, finances, employees, and customers can still mean juggling several disconnected records.

A sale recorded by one department may have to be manually entered into the accounting books, while stock levels are tracked separately and managers rely on spreadsheets or reports to establish whether the business is actually making money.

This is the gap that the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider Odoo is seeking to close by consolidating multiple business functions on a single platform.

The Belgian company's software brings together more than 50 applications covering finance, human resources, sales, marketing, e-commerce, services and supply chain ope...