Holiday season is here again and we can all certainly enjoy a few days’ well deserved rest. We want to thank our community for the past year. Your continuous support has enabled us to develop OrangeHRM into a unique HRM solution admired by more and more businesses and organizations around the world. Not to mention, it has whirled us to reach downloads of over 90 000! That's not at all bad milestone to reach.
Hence, we are looking forward to a prosperous new year 2008. The community of users, developers, marketers and other enthusiasts alike remains as vital as ever. We will need your efforts in order to grow OrangeHRM more and more sophisticated in features and usability as well as to reach wider audiences. We are working hard to introduce new enhancements and modules. Please check out our roadmap and remember, you have your say when it comes to priorities. So stay tuned for more opportunities to share your views and talents.
Happy Holidays and Best of Success for The Year 2008!
OrangeHRM team
P.S. Want to contribute? Please fire your ideas to our forum or at info@orangehrm.com
Friday, December 21, 2007
Thursday, December 06, 2007
OrangeHRM to apply LDAP
OrangeHRM has opened its doors to utilize LDAP in its ESS user login (currently available as customizations). With the new implementation the username will be the only required field for an LDAP user where the password will be automatically checked with the LDAP connection. This will enable a hassle free login for the user.
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a protocol to access hierarchical databases (just like SQL accesses relational databases). The objects in the databases are stored in a tree, which is the reason it is called "hierarchical". The name of the root is usually called the "suffix" or "root" and all objects are stored inside it. The objects are a list of attributes. The attributes are pairs (name, value). An object can have multiple attributes with the same name (or, a less popular way of viewing it, an attribute can have multiple values). All objects in the tree must have a type (sometimes more than one). The types of an object are usually called classes. The classes themselves are called schemas. It stores the information using BDB files and keeps indexes on attributes you specify. You can use access control lists to specify which users are granted access to which information.
Examples of LDAP servers are Microsoft's Active Directory, Novell eDirectory and the free OpenLDAP. According to the experience of many developers, OpenLDAP works very well. An example client is a suite of command-line tools distributed as part of OpenLDAP: ldapsearch, ldapadd, ldapdelete and ldapmodify.
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a protocol to access hierarchical databases (just like SQL accesses relational databases). The objects in the databases are stored in a tree, which is the reason it is called "hierarchical". The name of the root is usually called the "suffix" or "root" and all objects are stored inside it. The objects are a list of attributes. The attributes are pairs (name, value). An object can have multiple attributes with the same name (or, a less popular way of viewing it, an attribute can have multiple values). All objects in the tree must have a type (sometimes more than one). The types of an object are usually called classes. The classes themselves are called schemas. It stores the information using BDB files and keeps indexes on attributes you specify. You can use access control lists to specify which users are granted access to which information.
Examples of LDAP servers are Microsoft's Active Directory, Novell eDirectory and the free OpenLDAP. According to the experience of many developers, OpenLDAP works very well. An example client is a suite of command-line tools distributed as part of OpenLDAP: ldapsearch, ldapadd, ldapdelete and ldapmodify.
LDAP has become popular due to the following reasons.
-It can very easily set up multiple systems to authenticate users with the information from a centralized backend
-It ensures high security with respect to your data
-It provides good server implementation
-It is easy to set up
-It can very easily set up multiple systems to authenticate users with the information from a centralized backend
-It ensures high security with respect to your data
-It provides good server implementation
-It is easy to set up
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
OrangeHRM Partners With PicassoHR
SEACAUCUS, NJ ( December 1 ,2007) - OrangeHRM , a leading provider of open-source HR Management solution for small and medium sized enterprises worldwide, has announced a partnership with PicassoHR, a people focused company, dedicated to providing cost effective, professional, human resource management support to companies of all sizes.
“Partnering with PicassoHR helps us to localize the application to the UK market. Also,having a reputed partner in the UK gives us the chance to meet the end users face to face and be on site if the users do have any issues",said Sujee Saparamadu, the CEO of OrangeHRM Inc."We at OrangeHRM has given great attention for prioritizing, selection and implementation of the new features, as we are trying to keep the balance between satisfaction of individual needs and application of broad perspective. Partnering with PicassoHR delivers us the best ways how to reach the people with respect to their HR issues.PicassoHR will help us to understand what today’s organizations expect from a Human Resource Management software. This will help us to increase the flexibility and the user friendliness of our system”.
About PicassoHR
PicassoHR is a people focused organization, operating in the United Kingdom which has the expertise in the art of managing people effectively. It strongly believes in their competitive advantage with regards to Human Resource, which has been achieved through energy and commitment.
PicassoHR is specialized in four strategic areas.
1) Outsourcing
By using Picasso HR, an organization can focus on its core business, confident in the knowledge that the company is complying with employment legislation and the HR management activities are being taken care of.
2) HR Consultancy
Picasso HR can provide businesses with an affordable consultancy service, such as performance management, reward management, redundancy issues or team building at any level in the organization.
3) Training
Picasso HR has the expertise and knowledge to provide a wide range of bespoke training to a variety of audiences on all areas of human resources and management, including;
-conflict resolution
-coaching for excellence
-appraisal interview
-staff development.
4) Health And Safety
Picasso HR provides consultancy to ensure that an organization is complying with H&S legislation and sound business practice. The activities they carry out include;
-H & S Audit
-Risk assessment
-Training and instruction
About OrangeHRM Inc
OrangeHRM Inc. is a highly flexible emerging organization in the area of Human Resource Management (HRM) also known as the Human Capital Management (HCM). Being the provider of an Open Source HRM software application, OrangeHRM offers the variety of features, such as Personal Information Management (PIM), Employee Self Service (ESS), Leave Management, Time and Attendance tracking free of charge. In addition, OrangeHRM offers an On-Demand solution - a subscription-based hosted service that eliminates the need for installing and maintaining the product internally.
Availability, ease of installation and use, professional support and customization services, short development cycles, fast growth, and leveraging collective knowledge and intelligence encourage SMEs from all over the world to choose OrangeHRM as the solution for managing their most valuable resource – people.
For more information please visit www.orangehrm.com or contact:
OrangeHRM Inc.
Nadeesha Dharmasiri
Community Representative
Phone: +1-650-2158015 / + 94-11-2699754
Fax : +94-74-714501
Email: info@orangehrm.com
“Partnering with PicassoHR helps us to localize the application to the UK market. Also,having a reputed partner in the UK gives us the chance to meet the end users face to face and be on site if the users do have any issues",said Sujee Saparamadu, the CEO of OrangeHRM Inc."We at OrangeHRM has given great attention for prioritizing, selection and implementation of the new features, as we are trying to keep the balance between satisfaction of individual needs and application of broad perspective. Partnering with PicassoHR delivers us the best ways how to reach the people with respect to their HR issues.PicassoHR will help us to understand what today’s organizations expect from a Human Resource Management software. This will help us to increase the flexibility and the user friendliness of our system”.
About PicassoHR
PicassoHR is a people focused organization, operating in the United Kingdom which has the expertise in the art of managing people effectively. It strongly believes in their competitive advantage with regards to Human Resource, which has been achieved through energy and commitment.
PicassoHR is specialized in four strategic areas.
1) Outsourcing
By using Picasso HR, an organization can focus on its core business, confident in the knowledge that the company is complying with employment legislation and the HR management activities are being taken care of.
2) HR Consultancy
Picasso HR can provide businesses with an affordable consultancy service, such as performance management, reward management, redundancy issues or team building at any level in the organization.
3) Training
Picasso HR has the expertise and knowledge to provide a wide range of bespoke training to a variety of audiences on all areas of human resources and management, including;
-conflict resolution
-coaching for excellence
-appraisal interview
-staff development.
4) Health And Safety
Picasso HR provides consultancy to ensure that an organization is complying with H&S legislation and sound business practice. The activities they carry out include;
-H & S Audit
-Risk assessment
-Training and instruction
About OrangeHRM Inc
OrangeHRM Inc. is a highly flexible emerging organization in the area of Human Resource Management (HRM) also known as the Human Capital Management (HCM). Being the provider of an Open Source HRM software application, OrangeHRM offers the variety of features, such as Personal Information Management (PIM), Employee Self Service (ESS), Leave Management, Time and Attendance tracking free of charge. In addition, OrangeHRM offers an On-Demand solution - a subscription-based hosted service that eliminates the need for installing and maintaining the product internally.
Availability, ease of installation and use, professional support and customization services, short development cycles, fast growth, and leveraging collective knowledge and intelligence encourage SMEs from all over the world to choose OrangeHRM as the solution for managing their most valuable resource – people.
For more information please visit www.orangehrm.com or contact:
OrangeHRM Inc.
Nadeesha Dharmasiri
Community Representative
Phone: +1-650-2158015 / + 94-11-2699754
Fax : +94-74-714501
Email: info@orangehrm.com
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Open Data Standards
I was listening to a podcast on IT Conversations and the subject of Open Data Standards came up. It is very important that OrangeHRM does not lock in its data. Users of OrangeHRM should be able to switch to another system of their choice. At the same time users of other HR applications should be able to switch to OrangeHRM easily. This prompts us to look for an open data standard for HR data.
HR-XML comes the closest. We have been considering the idea of importing and exporting data using HR-XML for some time. However, OrangeHRM is community driven. Our users define its features on our forum and on our Wiki. We have had very few request from users for HR-XML. Most users seem to prefer import and export of data using simple CSV files.
CSV import and export feature is currently in development and we plan to make this available for the first time on the open source product in January.
We would like to hear your thoughts on this.
HR-XML comes the closest. We have been considering the idea of importing and exporting data using HR-XML for some time. However, OrangeHRM is community driven. Our users define its features on our forum and on our Wiki. We have had very few request from users for HR-XML. Most users seem to prefer import and export of data using simple CSV files.CSV import and export feature is currently in development and we plan to make this available for the first time on the open source product in January.
We would like to hear your thoughts on this.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Meeting David Axmark
Last week, at OrangeHRM, we have met David Axmark - the co-founder and Vice President of MySQL.
It was an inspirational and memorable experience to get to know about the growth and present day happenings of the world's most popular open source database software from the lips of one of its creators.
It was an inspirational and memorable experience to get to know about the growth and present day happenings of the world's most popular open source database software from the lips of one of its creators.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
OrangeHRM releases version 2.2.2
New version - a result of OrangeHRM and its user community collaboration - brings in the major enhancements to Leave and Time and Attendance modules
SEACAUCUS, NJ (November 1, 2007) – OrangeHRM, a leading provider of open-source HR Management solution for small and medium sized enterprises worldwide, has announced the launch of version 2.2.2 of their human resource information system (HRIS). Enhancements of the Time and Attendance and Leave modules, according to the feedback, received from user community side, were the main focus of the release.
“Through the constant communication with our users, we are shaping the growth of OrangeHRM in a best way that satisfies their requirements”, said Sujee Saparamadu, CEO of OrangeHRM Inc. “Great attention has been given to prioritizing, selection and implementation of the new features, as we are trying to keep the balance between satisfaction of individual needs and application of broad perspective, to ensure that the product is scalable enough, as it is being used by organizations from multiple market verticals on all 6 continents”
Features in the new application include
• Employee attendance tracking
- Punch in/out time allows employees to enter the time of arrival to and departure from the workplace
- Easy and hassle free attendance tracking by incorporating the punch in/out times into employee timesheets
• Enhanced timesheets
- Administrator’s ability to define the start of the working week for the timesheets adds on the flexibility for the system
- The detailed timesheet view ensures the easy access to all the timesheet information within a single button click
- Filtering by certain criteria, preview and printing of the timesheets
• Project management
- The new role of Project administrator has been introduced, granting project administrators with the privileges to define and modify their project activities and monitor project reports
- The project reports for the certain time period display the functionality
- By specifying the project and the relevant activities, employees can register and track the working time. The project and employee reports appear to be a handy tool for the project administrators, who can now manage the allocation of the tasks and time, in regards with the past performance and occupancy of the employees.
• Hourly based leave
The leave management module has been re-engineered to provide more precise management of employee leave related operations in hours (the previous versions of the system allow day/half-day scaling).
- Administrators of the system can define working shifts, specifying the number of working hours per day assigning employees who are working according to this work shift.
The latest version of OrangeHRM is available free of charge under GNU GPL open source license. The immediate download, as well as the demo version of the application can be found on www.orangehrm.com.
OrangeHRM version 2.2.2 marks the seventh major stable release of the human capital management software since February 2006. Within one and a half years the application has received more than 80,000 cumulative downloads from SourceForge.net – the repository of Open Source projects.
SEACAUCUS, NJ (November 1, 2007) – OrangeHRM, a leading provider of open-source HR Management solution for small and medium sized enterprises worldwide, has announced the launch of version 2.2.2 of their human resource information system (HRIS). Enhancements of the Time and Attendance and Leave modules, according to the feedback, received from user community side, were the main focus of the release.
“Through the constant communication with our users, we are shaping the growth of OrangeHRM in a best way that satisfies their requirements”, said Sujee Saparamadu, CEO of OrangeHRM Inc. “Great attention has been given to prioritizing, selection and implementation of the new features, as we are trying to keep the balance between satisfaction of individual needs and application of broad perspective, to ensure that the product is scalable enough, as it is being used by organizations from multiple market verticals on all 6 continents”
Features in the new application include
• Employee attendance tracking
- Punch in/out time allows employees to enter the time of arrival to and departure from the workplace
- Easy and hassle free attendance tracking by incorporating the punch in/out times into employee timesheets
• Enhanced timesheets
- Administrator’s ability to define the start of the working week for the timesheets adds on the flexibility for the system
- The detailed timesheet view ensures the easy access to all the timesheet information within a single button click
- Filtering by certain criteria, preview and printing of the timesheets
• Project management
- The new role of Project administrator has been introduced, granting project administrators with the privileges to define and modify their project activities and monitor project reports
- The project reports for the certain time period display the functionality
- By specifying the project and the relevant activities, employees can register and track the working time. The project and employee reports appear to be a handy tool for the project administrators, who can now manage the allocation of the tasks and time, in regards with the past performance and occupancy of the employees.
• Hourly based leave
The leave management module has been re-engineered to provide more precise management of employee leave related operations in hours (the previous versions of the system allow day/half-day scaling).
- Administrators of the system can define working shifts, specifying the number of working hours per day assigning employees who are working according to this work shift.
The latest version of OrangeHRM is available free of charge under GNU GPL open source license. The immediate download, as well as the demo version of the application can be found on www.orangehrm.com.
OrangeHRM version 2.2.2 marks the seventh major stable release of the human capital management software since February 2006. Within one and a half years the application has received more than 80,000 cumulative downloads from SourceForge.net – the repository of Open Source projects.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
OrangeHRM 2.2 - what's new?
What’s new in 2.2?
The new 2.2 version of the software, which is the result of communication and collaboration with OrangeHRM’s fast-growing and knowledgeable open source community, has been enhanced by adding a Time and Attendance module.
Features of the new application involving administration and management of time sheets include:
• Defining projects and customers
The ability of HR administrators to specify an organization’s current projects and customers
• Timesheets creation
A way for employees to easily create and modify timesheets, to specify time allocated to specific projects and customers
• Timesheets administration and management
- Submission and cancellation of timesheets by employees
- Modification of subordinate timesheets by supervisors and HR administrators to include new or edit existing time events
- Rejection, approval and cancellation of timesheets by HR administrators
• PIM module for Supervisors
OrangeHRM has improved the data access and security by providing separate PIM module for the Supervisors. From now on Supervisors can view and edit the personal information of their subordinates.
• OrangeHRM in Danish, Spanish and Russian
The Danish, Spanish and Russian translation of OrangeHRM is already available. The system will be translated into other languages so that SMEs from all over the world could benefit from the solution in their native language. For those who would like to contribute – please, contact info@orangehrm.com
Future Plans
Together with our user community we will continue moving towards developing OrangeHRM into the best opens source human resource management system. This will include the development of the new modules, specified by our road map, and improvements of the system in regards with comments and suggestions of our users.
The team has already started working on the next release, which will include the improvements on the timesheets, tracking employee attendance and administration of projects.
The next modules to be developed are:
• Recruitment Module
• Performance Module
• Training Module
• Benefit Module
How to Contribute?
As an open source, Web 2.0 based application OrangeHRM is leveraging on collective intelligence of our vast and diverse community. Your feedback, comments, suggestions, bug reports and feature requests are an important part of OrangeHRM development and have a great value for us.
• Translation of OrangeHRM
Help us to make OrangeHRM available for the companies all over the world in their native language. Contact info@orangehrm.com
• OrangeHRM Forum
You can always express your opinion and share your knowledge and experience on OrangeHRM Forum (www.orangehrm.com/forum).
• OrangeHRM Wiki page
By posting the requirements for the features that you would like to be implemented in OrangeHRM, you can contribute towards the future releases.
Download Links and Contact Information
Find more information, try OrangeHRM demo version and chat with OrangeHRM support – www.orangehrm.com
Download OrangeHRM – www.sourceforge.com/projects/orangehrm
Company information – info@orangehrm.com
Partner information - partners@orangehrm.com
Sales inquiries - sales@orangehrm.com
Technical support – support@orangehrm.com
Monday, July 09, 2007
Dear all,
Who loves/ likes/ enjoys/ adores/ is fond of/ fancies/ admires OrangeHRM.
You have a chance to prove it!
Vote for OrangeHRM - Best Project for the Enterprise at SourceForge Community Awards 2007
Thanks in advance from all the OrangeHRM team
Who loves/ likes/ enjoys/ adores/ is fond of/ fancies/ admires OrangeHRM.
You have a chance to prove it!
Vote for OrangeHRM - Best Project for the Enterprise at SourceForge Community Awards 2007
Thanks in advance from all the OrangeHRM team
Friday, June 22, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Web2.0 Expo - Exhibition day #1
It was a short busy session in the afternoon where more than 50 people visited the OrangeHRM booth.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
OrangeHRM Launches On-Demand at Web2.0 Expo
OrangeHRM will launch its On-Demand hosted service offering at the Web2.0 Expo at Moscone West, San Francisco. Visit our booth: 211 on April 16, 17 and 18th.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
OrangeHRM in ZDNet
OrangeHRM and the new development model by ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn -- This is the new model for software development. Your people can be anywhere, your company can come from anywhere, and you use the Internet to tie it all together.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Good news
There are two goods news to share today:
- OrangeHRM is now among 30 most highly ranked projects on SourceForge – the open source software development web site, hosting more than 100,000 projects.
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