Odoo vs Workday

Odoo (Open Source Business Apps) and Workday both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Workday (rank #278) holds a narrow lead over Odoo (rank #485) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 38). The gap of 8 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Workday is ahead of Odoo. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Workday is clearly ahead of Odoo. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Odoo is ahead of Workday. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Odoo is slightly ahead of Workday. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Odoo is slightly ahead of Workday.

Odoo carries 59,467 GitHub stars across 43 public repos, with 25 repositories active in the last 90 days and 257 external contributors on record. Workday shows 1,102 stars across 57 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Odoo's footprint is roughly 54.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Odoo is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Workday looks better where education is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.