Technology in the service of African growth.
The Digital Factory is the technology unit of the DI-Africa Group. It digitises the Group’s operations and those of its clients: Odoo ERP, process digitisation, change management — with AI built into every service.
Three domains, one value chain
A focused offer, proven on our own operations: ERP as the foundation, digitisation as the method, AI as the accelerator of every project.
IT & ERP
Implementation and operation of Odoo, Google Workspace and Google Cloud: deployment, configuration, data migration, automation and managed services. Business packages 90% preconfigured, 10% tailored to your context.
Digitisation & change management
Process digitisation, document spaces and published procedures, team training, adoption support — through to business continuity after the project.
Embedded AI
We pick the right model for each task, from Google's models (Gemini) and its partners' (including Anthropic's Claude), through the Google Cloud Model Garden. Your data stays in your environment, in a European region where required, and is never used to train the models. Our agents check, read documents and prepare the work — a person approves.
Preconfigured by business and by country
We industrialise what we already operate: Odoo packages 90% ready, enriched with our local rules — payroll, tax, compliance — and 10% tailored to your organisation. Maintenance is pooled: every improvement benefits all clients of the package.
Simplified interfaces per profile
For field teams, a light layer on top of Odoo: three buttons instead of thirty fields, guided input via API, controlled rights and views. Intermediate profiles keep a streamlined native Odoo.
Business expertise, brick by brick
Every brick we offer, we already run in production — for the DI-Africa Group or for our clients. It is the Group’s HR, payroll and finance expertise, translated into digital modules.
Employee & contract management
Personnel files, contracts, regenerable org charts, employee self-service.
Local payroll structures
Country-specific calculation rules, compliant contributions and scales, PDF payslips, accounting entries.
Salary simulator & gross-up
From target net to gross: hiring, raise and employer-cost simulations.
Leave, absence & time
Accrual plans, allocations, weekly timesheets, overtime.
Health & insurance
Digitised management of health-insurance operations — the Group’s Health unit runs on it.
Analytical accounting
Dimensions by department, project or vehicle — multi-currency and multi-country.
Tax reports & compliance
Automated tax and social filings per country (DSF, OHADA frameworks…).
E-invoicing & SFEC
Compliant electronic invoicing, integrated with local regulatory requirements.
Purchasing & approvals
Purchasing procedures, approval thresholds, traceable validation flows.
Inventory & production
Inventories, bills of materials, replenishment rules, threshold alerts, daily tracking.
Live P&L & reporting
Real-time steering dashboards, management reports, margin tracking.
Documents & procedures
Document spaces, procedures written, published and versioned with the teams.
What we build on Google Cloud
Beyond office tools, Google Cloud is the engine room of your operations: automation, AI, data and business apps.
Agents and automation
Agents that run on their own, overnight, with no computer switched on: payroll checks, bank reconciliations, reminders, reports. Each with limited rights and a full log.
Intelligent document reading
Invoices, statements, timesheets, receipts, contracts: reliable data extraction, filing and renaming against your document standards.
Data and steering
A consolidated history across all your countries and entities, with dashboards shared with your teams, shareholders or clients.
Business apps
Custom mobile apps and portals connected to Odoo and Google Workspace: field data entry, approvals, fleet tracking, candidate or client portals.
A proven deployment methodology, phase by phase
Every project follows the same path: phases with clear objectives, activities and deliverables, three-level governance — steering committee, project committee, delivery — and explicit risk management. The client keeps full visibility at every step.
- 01
Scoping & gap analysis
On-site business workshops, AS-IS / TO-BE mapping, gap analysis against the standard core, qualification of interfaces and data to migrate. Deliverables: gap file, specifications, migration plan.
- 02
Configuration & localisation
Configuration of the preconfigured core (90/10), specific developments, country payroll and regulatory localisation, interfaces, roles and permissions.
- 03
Tests, migration & training
Integrated tests, acceptance, parallel dry run (e.g. payroll), non-regression tests on what already runs, migration rehearsals, key-user training.
- 04
Go-live & hypercare
Planned cut-over (cutover plan, go-live checklist), reinforced hypercare of at least 4 weeks, skills transfer to your teams.
- 05
Run & continuous improvement
SLAs, L1/L2/L3 support, pooled maintenance, regulatory watch, follow-up committees, continuous improvement.
Structuring principle: non-regression. Every adaptation for a new entity is tested so it never disrupts what already runs in production — an effort explicitly planned from the initial costing, not discovered mid-project.
Real, measurable deployments, in production
Six representative deployments — click for details. Client names, figures and reference contacts available on request, with the clients’ consent.
Agro-pastoral operation · Congo
Odoo end to end: HR, payroll, inventory, poultry production, analytics and P&L per department.
View case →Motorway & airport concessions
Payroll and HR administration of public-service concession holders, run in DI-Africa’s ERP.
View case →Oil & oilfield services operators
Multiple collective agreements, specific payroll structures, digitised recruitment testing.
View case →HR services group · Congo & Namibia
Takeover of an Odoo deployment from a third-party integrator, then multi-country roll-out.
View case →DI-Africa Group · 14 countries
Our own operations, integrated and operated every day by the Digital Factory.
View case →Group subsidiaries · Central Africa
Odoo deployments and digitisation programmes led by our project management.
View case →Wherever you operate — established or not
Mobile project teams, qualified local partners and a multi-country deployment method proven on the Group’s subsidiaries. Every project creates value and jobs locally: skills transfer, recruitment and training of local resources.
- Odoo Community & Enterprise
- Google Workspace · Apps Script · AppSheet
- Google Cloud · Cloud Run · BigQuery · Looker Studio
- Model Garden : Gemini · Claude · Agents IA · RAG · Document AI
- API REST · XML-RPC
- PostgreSQL · cloud ou souverain
- Surcouches UX légères
- Tableaux de bord & BI
- Signature électronique · GED
We remain open to other technologies when your context requires it: respect for the existing estate, sovereignty and hosting constraints, systematic pros/cons study before any choice.
Join the Digital Factory
Backend, mobile and infrastructure engineers, business analysts, UX, QA and Scrum Masters: we recruit for demanding, secure and sovereign technology programmes.
16 roles, 7 job families
Apply online, take a technical test tailored to the role, then meet our teams for interviews.
Ready to build your next project?
Our proposal: a listening workshop and a pros/cons study of your need, with no commitment. Reply within 48 hours.
si@di-africa.com · www.di-africa.com
Preparing an Odoo project?
Ten questions, five minutes: share your need online and we get back to you within 48 working hours. The detailed collection (scope, current systems, accounting and analytics, reporting, migration) is then opened by invitation.