Best Free Human Resources Software Solutions

Open Source Small Business Personnel HR Tracking/Recruiting Systems

Mar 18, 2010
Chen Nanyang

Best Free Human Resources Software Solutions - Chen Nanyang

This is a comparison between commercial and free open source HR tracking, payroll, recruitment, employee performance, and personnel database management software.

Human resources software can help an organization manage HR tracking, HR payroll, HR recruiting, employee personnel performance, and other HR databases. There are a lot of kinds of HR software programs and packages available online. They include commercial shareware and free open source software.

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There are a lot of kinds of free and open source human resources management programs available for download. They are good choices for small business owners. Today, as human resources management has become part of an organization’s management system, HR software is usually part of the whole management software system as well.

For example, ]project open[ is open source software that integrates the functions of PM (project management), CRM (customer relationship management), and human resources.

]project open[ has two human resources modules:

Manage employee information. ]project open[ can provide human resources information such as contact information, the projects an employee has worked in, previous work experience, and previous employee payroll information.
Manage employee payroll information: ]project open[ provide payroll information that is being used by the Time Sheet Management module to calculate the real costs of employee participation in projects.

]project open[ is trying to provide a full solution for project management, a company can choose the modules they need to set up their own project management system that includes the function of human resources management.

Best Commercial Human Resources Software Solutions Review

While free open source HR software provide human resources management solutions, commercial HR software programs have their own benefits.

For example, Abra HR Software, or Sage Abra, provides a full suite of comprehensive human resources management tools, which can help organizations access employee information such as demographics, insurance and savings benefits, skills, education, and leave of absence; and quickly investigate critical areas such as salary, turnover, and performance issues, create accurate savings and insurance plans, track any number of plans, define eligibility criteria, and automatically calculate precise and detailed costs.

Both free and commercial HR software programs can be good choices for small business owners in providing human resources tracking, payroll, recruiting, and personnel performance management. A company can choose a right one after free trials and comparison.

Chen Nanyang - Chen Nanyang's journalist career began in 2002 when he started writing for China's Nanfang City News, Singapore's United Morning Post and ...