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2008-08-25T01:21:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,

We want to inform you that we have moved our blog.

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Your OrangeHRM Team :)

OrangeHRM Releases Version 2.4-beta.4 of the Open-Source HR Management System

2008-07-10T20:43:00.000-07:00

OrangeHRM, a leading provider of open-source HR Management solution for small and medium sized enterprises worldwide, has announced the launch of version 2.4-beta.4 of their human resource information system (HRIS). Introduction of the Recruitment Module which comprises of the comprehensive job application, publishing and recruitment process, according to the feedback, received from user community side, were the main focus of the release.

Features in the new application include:

Listing out the Job Vacancies

This is where the HR administrator creates the job vacancies available in the organization. He has the option to include all the necessary information, including the job title, the job description and pay grade and employment status.

Adding Pay Grade

When listing the available vacancies the HR administrator has the option to add additional pay grades to the system to be compatible with the job listing

Adding Employment Status

Generally the system itself has defined certain employment status at its inception. But if the company needs the HR administrator has the right to add company specified Employment Status to the system when listing out the job vacancies

Selecting Hiring Managers for the job vacancies
It’s compulsory for the HR administrator to select the hiring managers for each job vacancy listed out. This will let the hiring manager receive a notification when someone applies for the particular job that he/she has been appointed as the hiring manager.

Candidates Start Applying for the Job Vacancies

The wonder of the OrangeHRM recruitment module is that the candidates can never trace out that they are using the OrangeHRM system, but rather they feel that it’s the particular company recruitment system that they are directed to. The only thing involved in the application process is to select the job and fill up a form containing all the necessary details that are required. The process is very simple and user friendly.

Selecting the Right Candidate

The HR administrator can get the full list of applicants for each job and he can schedule interviews for the right people with the respective hiring managers and other executive members. Every action will be notified to the respective candidate via email.

OrangeHRM version 2.4-beta.4 marks the ninth major development release of the human capital management software since February 2006. Within one and a half years the application has received more than 150,000 cumulative downloads from SourceForge.net – the repository of Open Source projects.

OrangeHRM Releases Version 2.3

2008-06-19T01:54:00.000-07:00

OrangeHRM has released version 2.3 of the Open Source Human Resource Management System. In addition to already accessible features in the application, such as Personal Information Management, Employee Self Service, Leave and Time&Attendance Module as well as the On-Demand solution - OrangeHRM now introduces the Benefit Module.

The Benefit Module was implemented to manage the benefit-related tasks and especially the extensive Health Savings Plan (HSP). Therefore the following features are available in the newest version of the HRM System:

· Define HSP

OrangeHRM has given a wider option for the organizations to select their Health Saving Plans out of the 6 options been specified. These can be listed as HSA, HRA, FSA, HSA+HRA, HSA+FSA, HRA+FSA. All these options are based on the level of contribution by the employee and the employer.

· Employee HSP Summary

This lists out all the records of a particular employee with regards to his HSP. This lists out the annual limit, the employer and the employee contributions, the accrued amount and the current status of the HSP.

· HSP Payments Due

This is the place where the HR admin can go and check the due HSP payments due for the employees.

· HSP Expenditure

This displays all the used HSP payments as well as the due HSP payments of a particular employee.This list provides a clear idea of the current status of the overall HSP system in the organization

· HSP Request

This provides a request form for the employees to apply for the HSP in a particular year. Certain fields in this form are set inactive in the case of the ESS users and being made active for the HR admin only,when approving the HSP requests.

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.

How Webinars Can Benefit OrangeHRM Community

2008-04-01T03:12:00.000-07:00

Webinars are a type of web conferences. Although many times a webinar is a one way transmission of information, generally a slide show from a presenter to an audience who are attending over their personal computer, it can be designed to have elements of interactivity.

Webinars have been identified as the simplest and most cost-effective way to reach large audiences online. It enables individuals and organizations to easily present, train and demonstrate to large audiences online, significantly expanding the reach of their communication throughout the world. The following are the important advantages of webinars.

Increase productivity: Hold Webinars, reaching up to 1,000 people at a time, without complicated prep work or special skills. Meet online instantly with easy on-the-fly meetings.
Decrease costs: Reduce travel and save time. Train more people more easily. Hold unlimited Web events and meetings for one low flat rate.
Generate revenue: Bring in more leads with compelling Webinars. Provide value-added training and other information.

At the moment OrangeHRM is evaluating the possibility of webinars to its large community. OrangeHRM has introduced the video training material as an online user guide and this will be the 1^st feature which will be implemented in the OrangeHRM webinars. According to the feedback from the users we will stretch our plans to do monthly presentations about OrangeHRM feature updates to regular OrangeHRM users. In addition, support via webinars is also a possible feature in the future OrangeHRM.

We hope to implement this in the most interactive way in order to facilitate a smooth transition of ideas between you and us.

Introducing the OrangeHRM video training material to the community

2008-04-01T01:41:00.000-07:00

OrangeHRM has created video training materials providing hands-on instructions to using OrangeHRM. The videos will show in a fast and straightforward way how to get started with and use the different modules of the product. OrangeHRM video training materials will help you to:

discover the application step by step with narrated on screen guidance
learn about the different features provided to manage your organization’s human resources
discover the system from the point of view of different user groups
learn how to use OrangeHRM best matching your needs

The basic Getting Started instructions are freely available on the website to all community members. The guide instructs users with such basic steps as logging in and navigating in the system as well as setting it up according to your company’s HR requirements.

Customers subscribed to the Platinum Support plan have an extended access to the video training materials with more detailed instructions of the usage of all modules.

Data Migration in OrangeHRM

2008-04-01T01:21:00.000-07:00

Data migration is a widely discussed topic today in the software world due to its extensive use.The word “data migration” in itself describes the true functionality it performs, which is transferring bulk data from one system to another, eliminating the need for entering them manually. This can be done through a Comma Separated Value file, which can be processed by all text editors.

This feature plays a major role in Management Information Systems and Payroll Systems, because it eliminates the possibility of data redundancy and loss.

In OrangeHRM we have implemented this feature due to the huge demand and request from our community. This was firstly implemented in the version 2.2.3 and looking forward for some more changes. The technical functionality of this feature within the OrangeHRM system can be described as follows.

Custom Import Definitions

In order to import CSV data into OrangeHRM, you need to create an Import definition. This defines the format of the CSV file:

The fields (columns) in the CSV file
Order of the columns in the CSV file
Whether the CSV file contains a header.

CSV File format

The CSV file can have an optional header row. The header row will contain the names of the columns in the file. This row is optional, and OrangeHRM simply ignores this and doesn't attempt to read or validate this row.

The rest of the rows in the CSV file contain data. Each of these rows should contain details on one new employee. If the name of the employee matches an existing employee in the system, that row will not be imported.

Importing CSV Data

To import data you need to go to the menu 'Data Import/Export' -> 'Import' and select from the available import definitions. Then browse and select a CSV file and click Import. Once the import is complete, the status of the import with any errors will be shown.

In the same way the data can be exported from OrangeHRM to the other systems using the same technical functionality

OrangeHRM Launches The Premium Features

2008-03-31T23:59:00.000-07:00

With the launch of the new website,OrangeHRM has introduced the premium features that can be added to your own system. At the moment we have introduced the LDAP Plug-in, in the Add ons section and this has been categorized as the mostly requested from the community.

With this new functionality the username will be the only required field for a LDAP user where the password will be automatically checked with the LDAP connection. In other words LDAP Plug-in will securely create your user IDs and when users log into the system they will be authenticated by your company's LDAP Server. This will enable the hassle free and secure login for a user.

The most widely accepted advantages of the LDAP plug in can be listed as follows

-Can very easily set up multiple systems to authenticate users with the information from a centralized backend

-Ensures high security with respect to your data

-Good server implementation

-Easy to setup

OrangeHRM launches the Platinum Support Plan

2008-03-31T23:49:00.000-07:00

OrangeHRM has complemented the support service offering by introducing Platinum Support, a premium service package comprising of a broad selection of support activities.

This support plan is designed to maximize the convenience of the daily use of OrangeHRM by providing a palette of highly efficient support and value adding services. With the Platinum Support plan customers will have their email requests responded within 24 hours as well as a 24/7 access to support via phone with a dedicated support engineer answering questions and concerns.

OrangeHRM also offers a variety of training assistance to the Platinum Support users. This includes training videos providing hands-on guidance in getting started with the product and using the different modules. The training services also include free access to upcoming webinars as well as the possibility to have onsite customized trainings based on the customers’ needs. Additional benefits include a set of customizations, e.g. company logo or a branded product interface as well as priority bug fixes upon demand.

The Platinum Support offering’s aim is to raise the customer relationship to a new level by involving the clients into the development process. Functionalities for the upcoming releases will be discussed with the Platinum support customers, who are encouraged to have their say in determining the next steps of OrangeHRM.

OrangeHRM Dressing Up For A New Look

2008-03-17T00:35:00.000-07:00

OrangeHRM, boosted its visual image with the “Oranges Theme” by launching a new website with enhanced and extended features. This has generated the option for the OrangeHRM community to enjoy the features of the newly added Add-ons & Plug-ins section. The overall layout has been refreshed and redesigned to suit the competitive offering. The newly designed download page provides an even more enjoyable browsing experience with the introduction of several download options, such as Windows installer, Linux installer, latest development release, old releases, documentation and language packs. This provides the opportunity for the user to download the file he needs directly, eliminating the chances of confusion .The newly added language packs can be directly downloaded from our website and can use in which ever the way that the user prefers.

The updated website gives a wide range of information about our product as well as support and services. As a provider of an Open Source HRM software application, OrangeHRM offers the variety of features free of charge. These include:

Personal Information Management (PIM),
Employee Self Service (ESS),
Leave Management
Time and Attendance tracking and additionally
On-Demand solution - a subscription-based hosted service

Having recently reached a record breaking 100 000 downloads OrangeHRM has claimed a position among the top corporate open source software. We are proud to declare that OrangeHRM has marked its position as the “Future of Open Source HRM Applications” for most of the SME’s around the globe.

Check out our new website: www.orangehrm.com or write us: info@orangehrm.com

OrangeHRM Reaches 100,000 Downloads

2008-02-11T21:48:00.001-08:00

OrangeHRM proudly announces that it has reached more than 100,000 cumulative downloads since February 2006, when the first version of the Open Source Human Resource Management System was released to SourceForge.net - world’s largest open source collaborative development website. So far OrangeHRM has been a very competitive open source project in the SourceForge portfolio demonstrating high rankings with it’s efficient development and stable growth.

The increasing rate of downloads signify that OrangeHRM is continously generating value to most of the SMEs around the globe to effectively manage the most useful asset in the organization,its people. OrangeHRM is a community driven product and day by day it is establishing worldwide user community, who contribute to the project. This is resulting in a product that matures rapidly based on response to market needs.

Throughout its process of innovation, OrangeHRM has released many versions so far with several new features available in different languages. It's now in the doorstep of releasing its newest stable version 2.2.3 within the next few weeks.

We thank all our community members with great gratitude on this special moment.

Common Questions Collected In FAQ

2008-01-23T23:25:00.000-08:00

Since the support subscriptions are on the rise we decided we need to add a repository for the most common concerns. Hence, we have set up a FAQ in OrangeHRM Wiki.

What's Cooking

2008-01-10T02:26:00.000-08:00

The holidays are behind us and we are viewing into the new year with bright enthusiasm. Not to remain too mysterious, here's what to look for in the upcoming weeks:

** New release 2.2.3 **

The features to be introduced in the first release of 2008 include: A CSV export function and new fields in PIM, such as Tax & Direct Debit information as well as up to 10 customizable fields. Also bugs tracked in the 2.2.2 are tackled in this release.

** New website **

It is time to give our visual image a bit of a boost. A new OrangeHRM.com will be introduced soon with a clearer UI and better SEO qualities.

** 100 000 downloads **

Now this is something we are immensely proud of! We are expecting the amount of total downloads hit this target in a few weeks time. This is all thanks to the hard work and commitment of our community!

OrangeHRM Wishes All Happy Holidays!

2007-12-21T01:21:00.001-08:00

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

OrangeHRM to apply LDAP

2007-12-06T03:00:00.000-08:00

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 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

OrangeHRM Partners With PicassoHR

2007-12-04T23:00:00.000-08:00

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

Open Data Standards

2007-11-22T21:13:00.000-08:00

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.

Meeting David Axmark

2007-11-16T03:14:00.000-08:00

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.

OrangeHRM releases version 2.2.2

2007-11-01T03:43:00.000-07:00

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.

OrangeHRM 2.2 - what's new?

2007-07-12T21:54:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-09T02:01:00.000-07:00

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

OrangeHRM featured in Open Source's Hottest Applications

2007-06-22T10:39:00.000-07:00

Read the article in ITWire

Web2.0 Expo - Exhibition day #1

2007-04-17T00:19:00.000-07:00

It was a short busy session in the afternoon where more than 50 people visited the OrangeHRM booth.

OrangeHRM Launches On-Demand at Web2.0 Expo

2007-04-15T23:00:00.000-07:00

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.

OrangeHRM in ZDNet

2007-03-08T10:11:00.000-08:00

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.

Good news

2007-01-26T03:15:00.000-08:00

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.

The article about OrangeHRM– Open Source Software Opening HR Doors, by Ed Frauenheim is published on Workforce . Here is the article link.

OrangeHRM 2.1 Mock UIs

2006-12-24T14:44:00.000-08:00

Ruchira joins OrangeHRM

2006-12-16T19:22:00.000-08:00

Ruchira Amarasinghe joined OrangeHRM as Chief Architect. Based in Texas, USA, he will be responsible for the high level architecture of OrangeHRM.

Prior to OrangeHRM Ruchira worked at hSenid Software for over 5 years as a Senior software engineer, working on a wide range of enterprise systems including payment solutions, mobile content delivery systems, billing and stock trading systems.

Ruchira has a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is also a former Chess champion of Sri Lanka.

OrangeHRM 2.1 Scenarios Defined

2006-12-15T19:45:00.000-08:00

We have defined the scenarios for OrangeHRM 2.1 based on the response received in OrangeFuture section in our wiki. We plan to release OrangeHRM 2.1 in January 2007. More features from the wiki will be selected for future releases

Here's the scenario:

Apply leave for a range of days

Define holidays

It was the new year and Carol decided to enter the holidays for the year to OrangeHRM. She entered all public holidays and a few company holiday that are applicable for all staff. She knew that OrangeHRM would treat these days as holidays for all employees.

Apply for leave

Ashok was planning his vacation. He had saved enough annual leave and it was time to take it. He logged into OrangeHRM using his user id and password and accessed the tab for leave and accessed apply leave from the menu. He was taken to a page which allowed him to select a range of days before applying for leave. He could select from date and to date from using calendars. He chose the Monday and Friday of next week as the from and to dates respectively and applied for leave.

Having applied he accessed his leave list and saw that it showed the range of days he had applied for and showed the status as Pending Approval. Also he was shown the number of dates applied for and it showed 4. Ashok knew that this was due to next Wednesday being a public holiday.

Auto notification email of employee applying leave

Robert checked his email after lunch and immediately noticed there was an email from OrangeHRM informing about a leave application that he needs to approve. He opened the email and saw that Ashok has applied for email for the entire next week. He logged into OrangeHRM accessed the leave module and approved leave for Ashok.

Ashok got a notification for an email. He checked his mail and saw an email from OrangeHRM. He opened the email and saw that his supervisor, Robert has approved his leave for next week.

User defines employee id

Emily was given the task of adding information of a newly joined employee to OrangeHRM. She accessed the PIM tab in OrangeHRM and created an employee by specifying the employee id and other details of the employee. The company uses a unique employee id to identify an employee.

More columns with employee list

Display more columns with employee list

Emily saw that the employee list in PIM included columns of employee id, name, title, department and supervisor. This gave her a very good idea of the internal hierarchy. Since she was new to the company this was very helpful.

Search with more fields

She was also happy to see that it was possible to search employees based on all the fields displayed in the list. This made her life easy as she wanted to have a quick way to select an employee based on a major field without having to generate a report.

Have admin leave summary in one screen

It was time to add leave entitlements for the new year. Carol accessed leave summary as HR administrator and was presented with a spreadsheet like view with all employees listed. She entered and saved entitlements for each employee for each type type of leave. She preferred this view more than the previous way of updating employee data per each employee.

Reports

Have first name in reports

Carol also noticed that now she could view first name on an employee in a report. This made sense as they had number of employees who had the same last name.

More fields in reports

There were other new fields that made reports more flexible. These were "Reports-to", "Reporting-Method", 'Skills" "Joining Date", "Sub-division", "Contract", "Year of passing (from education)", "Years of Experience".

Time zones of OrangeHRM team

2006-12-14T14:55:00.000-08:00

OrangeHRM team is truely distributed working from all around the world. You can see the current times of all OrangeHRM team members here.

Define Orange Future

2006-11-30T16:12:00.000-08:00

We've introduced a new way for the users to define the features they want in OrangeHRM in future releases. This is in the form of a Wiki page where any one could go and edit with their suggestions. The requirements are in the form of a narration with fictitious
characters using OrangeHRM. Varous scenes from real life will be used to explain the new features of OrangeHRM.

Define Orange Future

OrangeHRM 2.0 is released with Leave Management

2006-11-23T15:16:00.000-08:00

Tags: hrm human resource management open source

OrangeHRM 2.0 was released to Sourceforge last week with leave management.

The following features are now available:

HR admin can define leave types and entitlements of leave for employees.
Employees can apply for leave.
Supervisors can approve/reject leave.
Employees can view their leave summary.
Supervisors can view leave summary of employees who report to him/her.
HR Admin can view leave summary of all employees.

OrangeHRM 1.2.2 released with bug fixes

2006-11-12T16:27:00.000-08:00

Tags: hrm human resource management open source

OrangeHRM 1.2.2 has been released to Sourceforge. The following bugs are fixed now:

Bug Number	Description
1586102	Deleting an ethnic race deletes the employee record
1586103	Deleting a nationality deletes the employee record
1586125	Employee Info - Contact - Error in saving phone numbers
1586546	Employee Info - Pay Grade - Deleting a pay grade deletes a job title
1587434	Report to incorrect label
1587436	Report to - Error in selecting employee id
1588277	ESS User functionality does not worl
1586059	Error when searching with 'search by' not selected
1586495	Company Info - General - Clear button does not work.
1586498	Employee Info - Job - If contract is saved before job info, job info gets lost.
1587571	Company info - locations - says successfully deleted when deletion fails

OrangeHRM has passed 9000 downloads

2006-11-09T21:53:00.000-08:00

Tags: hrm human resource management open source sourceforge

OrangeHRM has passed a total of 9000 downloads from SourceForge.net.

OrangeHRM featured in Open Source Loudspeaker podcast

2006-11-09T09:34:00.000-08:00

Tags: hrm human resource management open source podcast

Open source loudspeaker is the only radio program serving the Open Source software community.

The October 24 newscast featured OrangeHRM
Listen to newscast

Usability of OrangeHRM

2006-11-01T11:16:00.000-08:00

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What do you look for in an Open Source HRM software

2006-10-31T15:55:00.000-08:00

Please take the following survey and help us improve OrangeHRM further.

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OrangeHRM rises within Sourceforge top 50

2006-10-31T12:23:00.000-08:00

OrangeHRM continued it's rise within top 50 in Sourceforge. Now it's ranked 34 which is an alltime high.

Also, OrangeHRM had it's highest number of downloads on October; close to 2500 downloads which, is a high fugure for an Open source product especially for an enterprise product.

OrangeHRM

2006-10-31T11:25:00.000-08:00

OrangeHRM leverages on more than 10 years of experience of developing HRM software by hSenid Software USA, Inc. Being an open source product based on Web 2.0 principles OrangeHRM attempts to reach small to medium sized organizations all over the world that require affordable software to manage their most valuable asset; people.

OrangeHRM values simplicity and aims to reach people who are not familiar with technology. A simple AMP stack based installer makes it easy to install and get started by anyone, and the intuitive user interface makes it easy to get started without studying lengthy manuals. Being a web based product the user is able to use the product from any operating system through a web browser and the product can be installed on both Windows and Linux.

Having only released the basic features to the community OrangeHRM depends on the community to determine the product roadmap by giving feedback through forums and email groups. The product has improved with frequent iterative releases in response to community reported defects and feature requests. This high level of activity has placed OrangeHRM within top 50 in SourceForge.

Use of lightweight open source technologies of MySQL, PHP and Apache enables OrangeHRM to provide users with a robust, lightweight product and the rich user interfaces achieved with AJAX make the OrangeHRM experience pleasurable.