Success Story

El Nasr: Four Decades of Data, One ERP

Forty years of customer and payment history now supports governed real estate, developer-side projects, procurement and finance.

Real EstateConstruction Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt
El Nasr Housing and Development governed on-premise Odoo environment connecting customers, projects, finance, and people.

About El Nasr Housing & Development

El Nasr Housing & Development is an Egyptian public-sector real estate and urban development company affiliated with the Holding Company for Construction and Development under the Ministry of Public Business Sector. With more than fifty years of activity, the company has played a major role in housing, land development, infrastructure, utilities, roads, and the development of Mokattam. Its official portfolio also spans projects and land activity across 6th of October, New Cairo, Alexandria, and Greater Cairo. The company’s scale and public-sector responsibilities created demanding requirements for governance, traceability, reporting, and operational control. El Nasr needed to move beyond disconnected local software, spreadsheets, and paper processes; manage high-value real estate and project activity more consistently; and establish an operating foundation capable of supporting stronger governance and readiness for potential future stock-market participation.

Business Challenges

  • Local software, Excel files, and paper-based processes fragmented information across departments and prevented the company from operating through one controlled source of data.
  • Real estate transactions, payment obligations, assets, and project activity measured in billions of Egyptian pounds could not be traced consistently across the existing operating environment.
  • Customer payment behaviour and installment history were difficult to consolidate, limiting the company’s ability to evaluate payment performance and follow account status accurately.
  • Contracting and project costs were not connected effectively with purchasing, inventory, accounting, and asset information, reducing operational and financial visibility.
  • Management reporting required significant manual effort, while stronger public-sector governance and coordination with government ERP requirements demanded more structured data, controls, and auditability.
Forty years of El Nasr records recovered, matched, validated, and governed in Odoo.

ERP Solution Delivered

Archer implemented a governed, on-premise Odoo environment for El Nasr, replacing local software, spreadsheets and paper records across real estate, finance and developer-side operations. Sales, contracts, customer accounts and After Sales connect with projects and contracting, purchasing, inventory, assets, cost information and accounting. The same platform supports legal affairs, documents, HR and investor services, with call-centre, attendance-device, WhatsApp and Investors Portal integrations. Some legacy payment-plan records could not be exported reliably, so Archer used direct database access and data-cleaning techniques to reconstruct and validate approximately 40 years of customer, property, payment and financial history. That history remains available for account reviews and customer statements. The core system went live in June 2022; controlled on-premise releases extended it over the following two years.

Modules Used
CRM, Sales & After Sales Projects & Contracting Purchasing & Inventory Accounting & Assets Legal, DMS & HR Investor Services

Implementation Approach

The core implementation ran from July 2021 to June 2022, combining company-wide analysis, on-premise architecture, extensive workflow development and approximately forty years of historical-data recovery. Business acceptance and training prepared departments for launch; go-live support was followed by continued support and module expansion over two years.

01 Analysed local applications, spreadsheets, paper records, departmental handoffs and governance requirements across commercial, engineering, finance, legal and administrative functions.
02 Designed the Odoo 15 on-premise operating model and developed the required workflows and integrations, including call centre, attendance devices, WhatsApp and the Investors Portal.
03 Worked with departments on UAT of connected workflows and user access under company policy, resolving issues before controlled release.
04 Used database-access and data-science techniques to reconstruct, clean, validate and migrate approximately forty years of customer, payment, property, project and financial history.
05 Trained participating users on the new workflows and their departmental responsibilities before live operation.
06 Reached core go-live in June 2022, with deployment and initial go-live support for the on-premise environment.
07 Established CI/CD practices and continued support and module expansion for two years after the core launch.

Results and Business Impact

Replaced disconnected local software, Excel files, and paper processes with one governed Odoo 15 environment spanning El Nasr’s commercial, engineering, financial, legal, administrative, and investor-facing operations.
Established stronger traceability for high-value real estate transactions, customer obligations, payment plans, project activity, assets, purchases, inventory movements, and accounting records.
Made consolidated customer payment history available for account-status reviews, payment-performance evaluation, After Sales follow-up, and more consistent customer servicing.
Connected contracting and project operations with purchasing, inventory, asset management, cost information, and accounting to improve operational and financial control.
Created a more structured reporting foundation for management oversight, public-sector governance, auditability, and readiness for potential future capital-market requirements.
Preserved approximately 40 years of difficult historical information in the active operating environment and established an on-premise CI/CD foundation that supported two years of controlled functional expansion.

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