Saturday, October 20, 2012

Implementation and Deployment of a Business Application for Human Resource Management


With a cut throat competition in the global market, it has become pivotal for organizations to retain their most important asset human resource. The success graph of any organization depends largely on its workforce. In order to handle employees efficiently, human resource management is indispensable. Human Resource Management (HRM) software is being increasingly used by employers to manage their work force.

Business Requirement:  
Bizfriends Pvt. Ltd. is a software company that develops ERP solutions for its clients. Some of the projects undertaken are human resource management and customer relationship management software for clients like McDonalds and Protech. Bizfriends needs a total HRM solution for managing its own employees. Bizfriends has planned to customise and deploy open source HRM software. The software should take care of the organisation structure, employee information management and updation, pay grades, salaries, work shifts, leaves, attendance, recruitment process, key performance indicators and performance reviews. The software should also indicate the time spent by employees on different activities of different projects. The software should embed the organisational hierarchies and should indicate who reports to whom. Various reports must be generated regarding attendance, employee details, etc. Users apart from the administrator must be able to login to edit their personal details and view the remaining details.

Evaluation of Options:
  1. Open Applicant: To streamline the recruitment process in an organization, Open Applicant software is a wise choice. The software has been specifically designed to track numbers of applicants and assess their performance too. Along with it, HR professional can resort to this free software to make background checks on applicants too. Some additional features of the software include screening of resume and emails, reporting, customized assessment tests and many more.
  2. TimeTrex: In most of the enterprises, monitoring employee attendance accurately is a matter of concern. To carry out the task of employee attendance properly, TimeTrex appears to be one of the best options. It is real-time software that keeps a check on the attendance of the employees from any location of the world. Above all, enterprises can customize this open source HR software according to their requirements and budget.
  3. OrangeHRM: To improve communication between HR professionals and rest of the employees in the organization, free OrgangeHRM can be used with ease. This software compasses all functions required necessarily in an organization. Some of the modules in this open source software are benefit module, personal information management module, employee self-service module, applicant module and the list goes on and on.
Our Choice:
Our choice for Bizfriends is OrangeHRM, because of the following reasons:
  • It provides total HRM solution.
  • It is a robust and feature rich hosted HR system with no download, installation, maintenance or upgrading required and can be setup in just 15 minutes.
  • OrangeHRM can be tailored to suit the requirements by addressing specific needs.
  • OrangeHRM is the world’s most popular Open Source Human Resource Management Software (HRMS) with over 1,000,000 users globally.
  • Faster Implementation, Significant savings on expensive servers, IT staff and expertise.
  • It is hosted on highly secured servers and backed up by professional support.
  • OrangeHRM is compatible on any leading web browser and is accessible from anywhere in the world.
Customisation:
  • Admin Module
 Customised general information, organisational structure, job details (job titles, pay grades, etc), qualifications, users and project information
  • Personal Information Module
Added few employees, especially their job details like salary, reporting authority, job title. Left the contact details blank, so that employees can log in and edit as users.
  • Leave Module
Configured leave period, leave types, work week and holidays

  • Recruitment Module
Added candidates and declared vacancies
  • Performance Module
Configured key performance indicators (KPIs) and scheduled a review

URL link to actual working application:

Administrator Credentials:

Username: admin
Password: pass

User Credentials:

Username:shehzad
Password:shehzad

Username:manan
Password:manan

Username:neel1
Password:neel1

Username:rohit
Password:rohit

Username:milan
Password:milan

Username:akshay
Password:akshay

Username:nazneen
Password:nazneen

Username:jyoti
Password:jyoti

Username:parth
Password:parth

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