Linux HR Management Systems? 79
dgcrawford writes "A growing, 100-person company I work for is looking to integrate a Human Resources Management System into their Linux computer base. Does anyone have experience with any products that fit this need? Does it interface well with payroll, applicant tracking, maybe even finance and stock or other non-monetary compensation? I realize most of you would look at this from an IT point of view, but how did the system work across fields? And how important/useful did you find this interoperability?"
Try this (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.orangehrm.com/home/ [orangehrm.com]
VMWare Appliance for quick testing: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/7
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Sure, having better relationships will make you happier. Think about it. The essence of a good relationship is happiness, right? So the better the relationship, the happier you'll be.
The one thing that gets me about your post, though, is that you seem unwilling to accept women as real people, instead resorting to easy answers like a psychiatrist, or a For Dummies book. The answer is not that simple. You have to treat it as such.
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I have never been to a shrink, but I suspect they are BS. A book might be able to show you how to trick a woman into sleeping with you.
eHarmony.
(Sorry for the OT everybody, but I thought I'd try and help.)
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What leads you to suspect this?
GP, perhaps you should ignore this person. Therapists can be helpful, if this is truly a problem for you. Though I suspect that WHBT.
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Anyway, I just don't think a therapist is going to talk you through anything a friend couldn't in regard to relationship advice. Being introverted or shy, or whatever, are not mental disorders. I bet if you were to spend one hour a week in meditation on the subject, or talking with a friend, instead of paying hundreds of dollars to someone so they could listen to your talk, you would do just as well.
Now if every time you get around a girl, yo
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Sure worth a peek and keeping an eye on.
ofbiz / opentaps (Score:1)
Does anybody on /. have experience with ofbiz / opentaps to do HR management and linking to payroll?
I have been looking briefly at opentaps recently. I did not find much documentation so far and I am looking forward to hear success stories with the product.
Any hints or evaluation of the product is welcome !
Thanks,
Suggestion (Score:1, Funny)
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Applicant Tracking (Score:4, Informative)
Fauxpen source (Score:2)
It's more open than most (i.e. other than that clause and a somewhat obnoxious advertising clause), it's MPL. It's a lot better than the typical EULA attached to this type of software. But, it'd be nice to reclaim the phrase "open source", per Michael Tiemann's essay on the subj [opensource.org]
Lots of HR systems run on Linux (Score:5, Informative)
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scalc (Score:4, Funny)
Since our HR department does everything in Excel, this tool [openoffice.org] would probably do the entire job.
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I've been trying to get our department to sort out some kind of department information system to keep track of which offices staff are in, phone numbers, emails, statuses, who supervises who and all that, but no, we will continue to use a DASS[1] system because that's what the admin people are used to. Every so often they print out the staff list spreadsheet and stick it in every pigeonhole. In three days time its out of dat
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Of course. The really silly bit is that they are always referred to as databases.
Re:scalc (Score:5, Funny)
(Excel Is Not A Fucking DataBase)
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(Excel Is Not A Fucking DataBase)
The neither were DBase or Paradox. Excel does everything they did and more.
But Excel is a database (Score:2)
On the other hand, I will agree that it is overused and abused and is not the best choices of technologies for complex informaton storage.
Excel is a spreadsheet (Score:2)
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1) ISAM tends to structure rows a bit more than Excel
2) Excel has no indexing capability
3) THe 65k record limit.
Interestingly nobody seems to be able to give me some sort of definition of a database that includes, say BDB, Oracle, and ISAM but not a spreadsheet. Hence I would conclude that Excel could be considered to be a form of a database suited for simply entering, storing, and ge
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To be clear (Score:2)
Wouldn't echo, awk, and some convention for storing a text file qualify as a database? Couldn't you refer to
This is a guess... (Score:2)
Spreadsheets you're limited to raw data and charts to display the information. No way for you to plug into it with some kind of external application. You can import the data into another member of Office, but even then the only way to program your results by any means other than an equation is through Access, their databasing software.
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Actually, that turns out not to be the case. You can back Excel with a database, just use ODBC or suchlike. And connecting to files is dirt simple.
Here's a little exercise for you -- find a comp with Excel on it. Open an new Excel spreadsheet. Create a macro, and within it open a file -- a CSV file would be best. Close the macro. Next, enter ALT-F11. Voi
But in that case... (Score:2)
Excel isn't being the database though, it's just the frontend. ODBC is providing you with the database (isn't that SQL?).
I've never done that trick, I'll have to check it out before I comment on that functionality. But I'm still skeptical, it kind of sounds like an expanded version of opening a cell with the equal sign. Again, that's not programming access to a database, that's just applying more complex ma
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Yes, Excel is the front end of the database (and certainly not the best, but t
SAP (Score:1, Informative)
it runs on linux
it comes with source code for all the appliactions (not open source though)
it runs on an open source db (maxdb)
its not cheap though!
We have a simillar issue.. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:We have a simillar issue.. (Score:5, Insightful)
So, with all of our employee hours in a database already, it would not be hard for us to write an application to manage our payroll and export data to any application (or even a PDF) to be printed onto a real check automatically. Granted, I would probably wait 20 or 30 checks working on the alignment when creating the PDF, but the up front cost savings would be large. But, there are some things that are better left to outside companies. Payroll is one of these things, as there is a bit more to it then (hours*wage-(wage*tax rate)).. Payroll can be a time consuming and involved process.Let a company handle it for you. They will take out taxes, allow you to offer direct deposit, and will be your agent for dealing with the state in regards to taxes, unemployment, and workman's compensation insurance. Also, when an employee files for unemployment (or, better yet, gets fired, moves away, and files in a different state where you haven't even established an account before), they will be your liaison with the state in regards to all unemployment proceedings. The service we use (Paychex) will even go to court for you for matters of unemployment and workman's comp.
Mod AC up (Score:2)
Stick to recording and pre-processing time & expenses...
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My company has been using it for over a year now and its like night and day compared to maintaining our old in-house system, plus it handles ALL our time and payroll needs.
Oh yeah, being able to view my pay check online from home is great too!
Oracle E-business Suite R12 would fit the bill (Score:1)
ABS (Score:3, Informative)
Debian has it all ;-) (Score:4, Funny)
craft - Warcraft 2-like multi-player real-time strategy game
dstat - versatile resource statistics tool
t1utils - A collection of simple Type 1 font manipulation programs
Bugger, it might not be what you were looking for after all
Cheers
Raf
Tiny ERP (Score:1, Informative)
Brightmove ATS (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.brightmove.com [brightmove.com]
google says... (Score:2)
timetrex.com
http://www.paythyme.com/ [paythyme.com]
then there a about a dozen sponsored links...
Tiny ERP (Score:4, Informative)
I've been following this project for a couple of years now. Tiny ERP [tinyerp.com] is an open-source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suite written in Python and uses PostgreSQL.
It's a client server application, with the client available on Windows, Linux and Mac. The server will run on Linux.
It has HR and many other modules that you can use. And you can use one module or many modules for your installation. It will also allow you to integrate with your existing data sources. Check it out [tinyerp.com].
Oh, and I don't work for them, just like the software.
]project-open[ includes HR components, no Payroll (Score:2, Interesting)
]project-open[ is a project management system with several HR components. Links: http://www.project-open.com/ [project-open.com] and http://www.project-open.org/ [project-open.org]
There is:
- An integrated employee file with all available information
- Basic employee information and hiring workflow
- Portrait component & "Employee of the day" option
- (Very) basic payroll information, specially protected.
- A skill database (non-FOSS extension module)
- A forum associated with each employee for comments etc.
- A file storage associated with eac
Re:]project-open[ includes HR components, no Payro (Score:1)
- Absences/vacation/travel
- Travel Expenses and
- Timesheet Management
All the big ones (Score:4, Insightful)
suggestion (Score:3, Funny)
Linux+VirtualBox+WinXP (Score:2)
An alternative is Apple Mac with Parallels and WinXP.
That works like a charm and when Windoze screws up, you can restore the virtual machine from a backup tar ball.
Compiere/Adempiere (Score:1)
A few options (Score:2)
From what I've heard, http://www.compiere.org/ [compiere.org] is a good one.
HR Ceridian Payroll (Score:1)
We use software by Ceridian [ceridian.ca] to handle our payroll and HR
Their payroll application called prism is browser based and runs on *their* server which keeps critical payroll information from accidentally falling into the hands of Information Systems Managers like myself.
An enormous, interesting, but rarely discussed (Score:2)
TimeTrex (Score:1)
Here's a good system for Talen Management (Score:1)
Why not a web based application service? (Score:2, Informative)
Authoria (http://www.authoria.com) is one such company which offers a full suite of HCM based products.
Use SAP HR (Score:1)
Although, SAP's source-code is "open" as far as you can download, read and modify the source (ABAP?). You would have to pay for your users (onetime fee and maintanance fee) depending on how much data the user sees...
Your
Sources of HRIS on Linux (Score:1)