Aghreni's HRIS portal product goes live with the client

Aghreni Technologies first product web based HR information system portal targeted at the needs of Small and Medium enterprises in automating the HR processes, goes live with the client on 1st Feb 2009.

Aghreni’s HR Intranet portal and applications is a corporate portal that provides a central place for all of organization employee needs.

Aghreni's Intranet Portal and Applications is a centralized and yet modularized portal and application framework built on open source technologies that provides organization with a set of self-service applications for processes and procedures, news, calendar, project time sheet management, employee leave management, employee expense reimbursements, e-booking of facilities, asset management, audit, checklists and other applications needed on a daily basis by employees, administrators, managers and management in the organization.

The Intranet Portal and Application framework is built on open source technologies, to minimize cost of acquisition and support. It can be easily customized for each organization needs. It is modular to allow new applications to be added. It is web enabled, for easy accessibility for employees working from remote locations


A few key features are listed below:

* Easy simple interface and login based access. Can be accessed for any location.
* All applications accessed from the intranet portal.
* E-mail based alert notification to serve as remainders.
* Reporting for Management and approving authorities to enable decision making.
* Content Management System for Organization policies, procedures and handbooks.
* Project Based Time Sheet Application to track employee time.
* Employee Leave Management Application with approval workflow.
* Employee Expense Reimbursement Application with approval workflow.


For more info, please contact info@aghreni.com

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Aghreni Technologies is an offshore provider of open source software, solutions, products and services to clients world-wide.

Aghreni's infrastructure services provide remote infrastructure & application management, SAS 70 and IT audit services.

Why open source startups are in better shape?

Bill Snyder writes why the nuclear winter doesn't affect open source startup software companies as much for other companies.

He says that many open source companies didn't overbuild in the first place, second the segments like virtualization, cloud computing and open source have a critical advantage and the third open source is still seen as a way to cut costs.

But for now, at least, open source companies that have already been funded and are beginning to generate cash, are something of a shelter from the storm sweeping Silicon Valley.

For detailed article, visit URL http://weblog.infoworld.com/tech-bottom-line/archives/2008/11/nuclear_winter.html



Aghreni Technologies is an offshore provider of open source software, solutions, products and services to clients world-wide. It has an excellent understanding of open source technologies and solutions in various domains.

Aghreni is also specialized in remote infrastructure management and SAS 70, IT audits and security services.

For more details on Aghreni's services, visit URL http://www.aghreni.com

Why Open Source will be hot now?

With the deepening of the credit crisis, melt down in the financial industry, the IT budgets in the big companies is under squeeze.

Companies are looking at optimising their IT budgets and seriously looking at Return on their investments. The commercial software license costs; be in hardware, operating system, infrastructure, database, commercial applications and consulting & support, is being reviewed and seriously considered for optimising and cost cutting.

Open source software and solutions have a great opportunity to survive and benefit in this economy as they provide better returns for the companies that are looking to save huge licensing costs and greater availability of solutions and software that can be easily adopted.

Open source software and solutions have matured over years and a bigger community to support them. There are several solutions from multiple vendors for business problems and substantially less expensive compared to commercial software from the proprietary software companies.

According to statistics, open source solutions did really well during the last economic downturn in the year 2000 and 2001.

Aghreni technologies started at Banglore, India realising the potential of open-source technologies and solutions and its impact on society and enterprises, is focussing on providing open source technology services and solutions.

Aghreni's business solutions practices provides consulting and implementation services major open source ERP, BI, Content Management and Email Marketing applications.

Aghreni provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targetted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.

For more information on the company, you can visit their website http://www.aghreni.com or drop an email at info@aghreni.com