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OrangeHRM: Revolutionizing HR Management Globally - AI Helpdesk, Trusted by 5 Million Users, Earns SourceForge's Winter 2024 Category Leader Recognition.

OrangeHRM, a leading provider of Human Resource Management solutions, proudly announces the launch of its AI-enabled helpdesk, a groundbreaking addition to its advanced version. Accessible through the HRM help portal, this innovative feature marks a significant milestone in OrangeHRM's commitment to harnessing artificial intelligence to enhance user experience.

OrangeHRM, a global provider of HR software with over 5 million users worldwide, announced that it has won the HR Category Leader award for Winter 2022 from SourceForge. This is the fourth consecutive category leader award for the HRIS provider in 2022 as they were recognized with Spring, Summer, and Fall HR Category Leader awards earlier in the year.

This award is presented to products that have achieved outstanding user reviews, standing out from over 60,000 other products listed on SourceForge. To win the award, each category leader had to receive enough high-rated user reviews to place the winning product in the top 5% of favorably reviewed products on SourceForge.

The OrangeHRM Starter 5.0 is the latest upgrade to OrangeHRM's free and open-source HRMS solution which is currently being used by over 5 million users worldwide. It offers a more intuitive user interface and better user experience, along with an upgrade to its technology stack to improve integration capabilities with other applications and also improve its security.

This version has been developed to make it easier for users to navigate through different pages, reports, workflows, etc. with the least effort required. It is more friendly, accessible, and intuitive for the administrators and end-users regardless of whether they have used HR software in the past or not.

OrangeHRM, a global HRMS provider with over 5 million users and over 25 partners worldwide, announced that it was recognized by SourceForge as a Category Leader for HR software in its Spring 2022 awards.

This award recognizes products with outstanding user reviews that put them in the top fifth percentile of highly reviewed products on SourceForge. To win this HR software Leader award, OrangeHRM achieved high-rated user reviews placing the product in the top 5% of favorably reviewed products on SourceForge demonstrating the utmost quality that OrangeHRM delivers to customers.

OrangeHRM's Starter version, the free and open-source version of the company's HR software, dominated SourceForge's 2022 Community Awards, clinching awards in multiple categories.

SourceForge, a software listing website for open-source and other business software, is the largest, most trusted destination for open-source software discovery, software reviews, and software development on the web. In addition to creating a premier resource for open-source software development and distribution and hosting a popular directory connecting nearly 30 million monthly users with these open source projects, SourceForge also bestows awards on popular and exceptional open source projects like OrangeHRM.

With version 5.2 of its professional & enterprise product, OrangeHRM now offers users powerful new recruiting and in-house social media capabilities.

The features and functions available with OrangeHRM 5.2 represent an innovative step forward in HR capability--and a significant advantage to OrangeHRM users seeking the talent to keep them competitive in their industry marketplace.

#ProjectNova, which ships with OrangeHRM 5.2, is an integrated ATS product that delivers on the promise and power of IBM Watson cognitive computing. #ProjectNova streamlines the recruiting cycle.

Utilizing IBM Watson technology, OrangeHRM, a U.S.-based human resources software solutions corporation, launched a beta version of #ProjectNova on October 1 at OHRM Con in New York City. #ProjectNova is an integrated applicant tracking system (ATS) that fast lanes recruiting, reduces hiring costs, and improves the candidate journey.

Making inroads into human resource settings for decades, ATS automated the recruiting process, parsing large volumes of paper--and now digital--application materials for employers. Today, integrated ATS platforms like #ProjectNova handle tasks from job posting to on-boarding.

OHRMCon, the world's first open-source Human Resources software conference, launches this week in New York City.

Bringing together industry experts, thought leaders, and participants from the fields of open source, HR, and HR tech management, the conference is slated to run October 1-2, 2015, at the New York Marriott Marquis hotel.

At OHRMCon, attendees will learn and discuss trends in HR tech, network with colleagues, and participate in the open source community.

The ability to integrate systems, has always been a part of the
OrangeHRM open source roadmap, while its enterprise and professional versions have built-in capabilities to ingrate with
others systems via web services, the OS release has just begun to inherit some of these capabilities. This release has laid
the foundation, for an API and has a few built-in web services that are used to communicate with the mobile app introduced
along with this version.

In terms of new features, the OS version has also inherited the Corporate Directory plugin. Corporate directory enables
employees to find and view the other employees in the organization. This new addition also comes with a mobile app which
is available on both Android and IOS platforms.

OrangeHRM, the world's most used open source human resource management software (HRM) company, today announced its first user conference OHRMCon 2015. The conference will be held in Times Square, New York at the Marriot Marquis on the 1st and 2nd of October 2015.

The agenda is packed with key notes and cases studies from an A-list of celebrity CEO's, industry experts, thought leaders and analysts.

OrangeHRM Inc., "The world's most popular open source HR Management software" announced today the availability of version 3.2 of the OrangeHRM open source edition. The build is now available for download via www.orangehrm.com or www.sourceforge.com.

OrangeHRM is closing down on a million downloads on sourceforge.com and its users are scattered across the globe in the millions. After a major UI improvement with version 3.0 the open source roadmap has focused on security and performance improvements. Please visit here to learn more about the releases. Version 3.2 has delivered long awaited performance module enhancements and an attractive dashboard.

CIO Review (www.cioreview.com) has chosen OrangeHRM (http://www.orangehrm.com/) for its 20 Most Promising HR Tech Solution Providers in the Human Resource sector. The positioning is based on OrangeHRM's full-service HR environment which meets business and budget requirements. They optimize the HR environment with options that include, cloud or On-Premise hosting, module-based architecture, and pay-per-employee pricing structure.

OrangeHRM is the most popular open source human resource management (HRM) software in the world. Offering choice, flexibility and affordability, Orange HRM gives you three premier products: OrangeHRM Open Source, OrangeHRM Professional and OrangeHRM Enterprise.

In the Human Resource industry, having the ability to manage employee schedules and leave requests is vital to the success of every organization. OrangeHRM, the world's leading open source human resource management Software Company, has launched their brand new OrangeHRM Android Mobile Application to make this process even more seamless. Now human resource professionals and employees can access OrangeHRM products on-the-go, which puts them more in touch with time and attendance, leave requests, and information wherever and whenever they need it.

Sujee Saparamadu, CEO and Founder of OrangeHRM, says that the development of the new OrangeHRM Android Application came about as a result of the, "growing demand from OrangeHRM's clients to access and manage employee attendance on the go."

Entrepreneur.com states that on one of its articles published about business in Afghanistan highlights the fact that its booming market is once in a lifetime opportunity. Although moving into the Afghan market poses challenges, with the right synergies firms can help boost its economy and open doors for many more business opportunities.

OrangeHRM Inc. has been studying this market in the past couple of years with an aim to introduce the world's most popular open source HR management system. OrangeHRM has partnered with First Rate Afghanistan, a pioneer in IT services in the country in its quest.

OrangeHRM Inc. a global leader in HRIS development for small and medium-sized enterprises worldwide, launched OrangeAM (Absence Management System) with improved and sophisticated leave management features.

The success of the leave module led to the creation of this standalone service, OrangeAM. OrangeAM facilitates defining leave types, work weeks, company holidays, leave accruals, rules and policies that can be applied for all subsidiaries across the globe with rules specific to each country.

"Absent management is a critical part of managing your human capital, especially when your organization is growing. OrangeAM is designed to make Absent management a centralized process of multinationals," says Sujee Saparamadu.

OrangeHRM Inc., a leading developer of software of Human Resource applications, based on open source code and made available as cloud services, has chosen the HR Portalen Nordic as a partner for the Nordic market , a Swedish-based HRM organization which provides innovative HR solutions for small and medium-sized businesses in need of effective management and development of the company's Human Resources.

"We are proud to represent OrangeHRM on the Nordic market and see the choice of the OrangeHRM's software as a fundamental cornerstone of the architecture of software components that together form a comprehensive solution for Human Resources process needs for small and medium-sized companies provided as a cloud service," expressed Ingvar Sjoo and Hans Wester, founders and owners of HR Portalen Nordic.

OrangeHRM the world's most popular open source HR solution provider today announced its partnership with Business Services, Inc. (BSI), a technology innovator and leader in video-based technologies, to bring applicant tracking and video interviewing to the OrangeHRM Open Source and OrangeHRM Live HRM solutions.

With this partnership OrangeHRM will provide BSI's state-of-the-art Int-R-View Portfolio SaaS talent acquisition solution with customized online job application, resume upload, and video interviewing service for their (OrangeHRM's) client base.

Always on the lookout for new features and functionality to integrate into their popular HRM platform, OrangeHRM took notice of the emergence of video enabled talent acquisition in the marketplace.

OrangeHRM Inc and VHC Advance partner to introduce an affordable HR solution to the Thai market. The solution is based on OrangeHRM Live which is an advanced version of its open-source version.

The alliance will cater enhanced support and services locally to OrangeHRM users in Thailand. The partners will be holding a grand product launch to build market awareness of the cloud based HRIS.<

OrangeHRM, the world's most popular open source HR solution announced its strategic coalition with VHC Advance, the leader in IT Consultation and HC Products in Bangkok, Thailand.

Many companies use various software applications for management. OrangeHRM, a global leader in open source Human Resource Management Software and Identity Automation a leading Identity, Data and Access management solution provider announced a strategic alliance to leverage OrangeHRM as an authoritative source to provision / de-provision user accounts and share other data elements with downstream systems in the Enterprise.

MySQL Co-Founder and a Director of OrangeHRM Inc., David Axmark visited the company's R&D center in Colombo last month. OrangeHRM made sure the visit of this iconic figure was used to the benefit of IT students from two of the top Universities in Sri Lanka. Two guest speeches were organized at the University of Moratuwa and University of Colombo. The topic Modern Open-Source Trends attracted many young IT Students from both universities.

This was an opportunity not to be missed. David spoke about how MySQL was begun in the late 70s along with Michael "Monty" Widenius and how it went on to be sold to Sun Micro Systems for a billion dollars.

OrangeHRM, Inc., a leader in the development of open-source
human resources management (HRM) software, launched the new website for its hosted enterprise version OrangeHRM
Live, a hosted version of its flagship product OrangeHRM. OrangeHRM Live was launched at the SHRM 2010 Annual
Conference & Exposition at the San Diego Convention Center, California earlier this year.

This new website will give detailed information on OrangeHRM Live while allowing HR people to sign up for a
comprehensive HR management system in just a few minutes.

The new website contains video tours, detailed description on each module and talks about advantages of why modern
businesses should start using web-based software like OrangeHRM Live.

OrangeHRM, Inc., a leader in the development of open-source human resources management (HRM) software, is pleased to announce the launch of OrangeHRM Live, a hosted version of its flagship product OrangeHRM. OrangeHRM Live was launched at the SHRM 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition at the San Diego Convention Center, California.

OrangeHRM Live is packed with many add-ons and advanced modules giving HR Managers a feature-rich and flexible application. Hosted on highly secured servers. OrangeHRM is guaranteed to be a fast, scalable and reliable HR Application and can be deployed in minutes. OrangeHRM Live does not require any installation, IT staff, or an IT infrastructure, OrangeHRM Live is hosted and maintained with timely upgrades and you can access it on any leading web browser anytime and from anywhere in the world. With its User-friendly interface, admin and self-service modules, it's as easy as using eBay or Gmail. Companies do not have to wait for the return on investment, with OrangeHRM Live you can pay as you go and pay per user.

OrangeHRM, Inc., a leader in the development of open-source human resources management (HRM) software, is pleased to announce that it has received Series A investment capital from principal investors Larry Stefonic and David Axmark to finance the sales, marketing and development of OrangeHRM, the company's flagship product. The investment capital will fund the development of new HR modules such as training, budgeting and benefits modules; configurable engines to facilitate leave and recruitment modules; development of SOA-based APIs to integrate with third party applications; and the launch of OrangeHRM Live, an SaaS implementation of the product that contains additional features. Additionally, the company will expand sales and marketing resources to further broaden the reach of the company and accelerate growth.

"The OrangeHRM product suite is an excellent example of the progress of Open Source in Human Resources management software," says Larry Stefonic, ex-EVP of MySQL and one of the principal investors in OrangeHRM. In March of 2009, OrangeHRM named Stefonic to the company's advisory board. "Companies need low-cost and highly functional HR applications to manage and monitor their business processes.

OrangeHRM, Inc. is pleased to announce that it released the latest version of OrangeHRM, its open-source HRM software today. Release 2.6 incorporates a Performance Module, a new feature designed to help small- and medium-sized enterprises conduct formal employee performance reviews.

"The Performance Module is a natural extension to the OrangeHRM product," says Sujee Saparamadu, co-founder and CEO of OrangeHRM, Inc. "Small- and medium-sized enterprises operate exactly like their larger counterparts and have shown a consistent desire to formalize all aspects of human resource management," says Saparamadu. "The ability to conduct and monitor employee performance over time in an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand and highly systematic way is very appealing to the small enterprise."

Adding Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) for each job title independently is one of the key aspects of the Performance Module. It's important that both parties are aware of the expectations that by adding distinctive KPI's for job titles, employers can make sure their expectations are communicated clearly and persuade employees to achieve these goals.

OrangeHRM Inc. a global leader in HRIS development released a trial-candidate version of the "World's Most Popular Open Source HR Software." OrangeHRM expects 2011 to be another year of excitement. It's a reticent improvement that personifies OrangeHRM's effort to boost the frequency the open-source HRIS is developed.

The OrangeHRM engineering team has made available for a looming new version. The release serves as a trial-candidate before 2.6.1 is released on 20th January 2011.

OrangeHRM 2.5 is designed to meet the needs of our community", says Sujee Saparamadu, CEO and co-founder of OrangeHRM. "We were asked for better usability for HR administrators, supervisors and employee self-service users, and also for greater administrative control to manage information flow across the organization. We have addressed both these needs with this new version of the application.” “We thank our users for their support in making OrangeHRM 2.5 the most robust release in OrangeHRM history."

“Since November 2008 we have dedicated our efforts into making this version a success.” says the development team of OrangeHRM 2.5, “We paid special attention to make the system as user friendly as possible. We have also developed a comprehensive user guide targeted at non IT personnel. We especially thank our community members who helped us with alpha & beta testing and provided their inputs to this release.”

OrangeHRM, the worlds most popular Open Source Human Resource Software, today announced the release of OrangeHRM 2.5. The much awaited release is now available for download from, http://www.orangehrm.com/download.php

"OrangeHRM 2.5 is designed to meet the needs of our community", says Sujee Saparamadu, CEO and co-founder of OrangeHRM. "We were asked for better usability for HR administrators, supervisors and employee self-service users, and also for greater administrative control to manage information flow across the organization. We have addressed both these needs with this new version of the application.”

“We thank our users for their support in making OrangeHRM 2.5 the most robust release in OrangeHRM history."

OrangeHRM, a leading provider of open-source HR Management solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises worldwide, today announced a strategic partnership with Factor Humano, one of the Costa Rican pioneers in HR Consulting and Outsourcing.

With this partnership, OrangeHRM and Factor Humano hope to provide Costa Rica and its neighboring countries, expert services with proven technology to automate the numerous and often time-consuming tasks associated with human resource management. While promising higher levels of support around South America Factor Humano will be able to ensure a better use of the OrangeHRM system with their in-house training classes and consultations.

OrangeHRM, a leading provider of open-source HR Management solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises worldwide, is delighted to announce the newest stable version of its product: OrangeHRM 2.4.2. The new version comes to make the installation easier for all range of users.

In the past, when installing OrangeHRM, its installer creates the required MySQL database. For this, OrangeHRM requires MySQL administrator user details. But you don’t get MySQL administrator user details from shared web hosts. So, if you wanted to install OrangeHRM in your shared web hosting account, you have to install it manually which can be a tedious task if you are not tech-savvy.

OrangeHRM, a leading provider of open-source HR Management solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises worldwide, announced that Larry Stefonic has been appointed to its advisory board. Larry Stefonic recently completed 7 successful years at MySQL AB in various senior positions. He was instrumental in driving the dramatic business growth that ultimately led to MySQL's acquisition by Sun Microsystems for one billion dollars.

“Larry’s experience in open source business models, international sales and building successful teams, makes him the perfect fit for OrangeHRM as we move more aggressively into world markets.," said Sujee Saparamadu, CEO / Co-Founder of OrangeHRM Inc. "With Larry’s advice, we will move into the OEM market globally and accelerate our adoption in the enterprise. This will help us to further establish OrangeHRM as the worldwide leader in Open Source HR Management.”

For OrangeHRM accomplishing 200,000 downloads of the Open Source Human Resource Management System since its first release in February 2006 to SourceForge is a great start for the year 2009 and we hope for a continuous exciting year ahead.

Last year OrangeHRM has already proven that it is a high competitive open source project on SourceForge not only by achieving high rankings but also by being awarded Project of the Month. OrangeHRM was chosen out of close to ¼ million projects and 1.8 million registered users to be Project of the Month in December 2008! SourceForge has a count of 25 to 30 million unique visitors per month and every month a project is chosen to be Project of the Month.

OrangeHRM, a leading provider of open-source HR Management solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises worldwide, has announced the launch of version 2.4 of their Human Resource Information System (HRIS). The introduction of the Recruitment Module, comprising of a comprehensive job application and publishing and recruitment component, was the main focus of the release. Feedback received from the user community was instrumental to the development of the module.

With the release of version 2.4 of its HRIS application, OrangeHRM has stepped into new levels of HR management innovation. This release with its powerful applicant tracking module can easily be embedded into customer websites. “One of our visions and a common community request was the ability to embed OrangeHRM into third party applications.

OrangeHRM, a leading provider of open-source HR Management solution for small and medium sized enterprises worldwide, has announced the launch of version 2.3 of their human resource information system (HRIS). Introduction of the Benefit Module which comprises of the comprehensive Health Saving Plans, 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”

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”

OrangeHRM announced it has reached more than 50,000 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. In addition, OrangeHRM has been holding the position among the first 15 most active open source applications on SourceForge.net for the past month.

The growing download numbers signify that OrangeHRM is gradually adding value and becoming more useful for the companies on all 6 continents, and 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.

OrangeHRM announced the launch of version 2.2 of their flagship OrangeHRM web-based open-source Human Resource Management (Human Capital Management) System. The new version, 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.

“We’re always looking for new ways to meet the needs of the OrangeHRM community, and this new version does that beautifully,” said Sujee Saparamdu, CEO or OrangeHRM Inc. “We received requests and detailed requirement specifications from the community, and incorporated them into the system, which now provides the functionality necessary to track workforce occupancy and enhance an organizations’ performance by eliminating paperwork and manual processes associated with time and attendance needs.”

The release of OrangeHRM version 2.1 was announced. OrangeHRM is an open source software application, which helps small and medium enterprises to manage their most valuable asset – people. The new version contains major improvements and fixes in Personal Information Management, Leave Management and Reporting modules.

OrangeHRM Inc. announces that it achieved the 4th place ranking as an Enterprise solution and 10th position among projects of all categories, listed on the directory of open source software – SourceForge.net.

“We are very pleased, that OrangeHRM is being highly recognized by the Open Source community”, says Sujee Saparamadu, the Chief Executive Officer of OrangeHRM Inc. “We believe that achieved top rakings show that OrangeHRM is establishing firmly among the human resource management systems, offering our users the benefits of the flexible solution free of charge. Moreover, it is being constantly developed and enhanced in regards with suggestions and requirements of the vast user community.”

The release of OrangeHRM version 1.2 was announced today. OrangeHRM is easy to install and easy to use free Open Source HRM System especially suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises. The new version contains major improvements to the user-friendliness of the system.