News: iHRIS Manage

In Rwanda, iHRIS Manage implementation has continued to make progress. Since May 2009, Capacity Staff have held meetings with users and MOH partners to refine expectations for the system. In response to user requests, new reports have been developed for regular use by decision-makers, and further reports are under development. The MOH has ordered several servers for the system, including one that will be dedicated as a back-up server for the data...

We are pleased to announce the release of a major upgrade to iHRIS Manage . You may download iHRIS Manage 4.0.0 and all supporting software from the Launchpad hosting site (or go to the Software Download page ). Several enhancements are included in this release: Customize any field name display (change "district" to "state," for example) Create customized roles and assign specific tasks to those roles Export selected standard data lists, for use...

Last spring, the HR management (HRM) department at the MOH in Uganda requested the Capacity Project’s assistance with implementing iHRIS Manage, the Project’s free and Open Source HR management software, to monitor the number of health workers deployed in the country by cadre and district. In response, iHRIS Manage was installed at the MOH and in two pilot districts in the north this fall. In December, the MOH’s records office completed data...

We are pleased to announce the release of a major upgrade to iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify. Both systems now support customized reporting, which allows users to design and share reports to better analyze and aggregate data entered in the system. This new release of iHRIS Manage also includes an in-service training management module, which enables human resources departments to schedule employees for in-service trainings, evaluate their...

We are currently planning our development for the next project year (July 2008-June 2009), and we have updated our development roadmaps as a result. This year we are focusing on improving the features available in our human resource information systems, based on requests from the countries that are using the systems. This week we hope to release Version 3.1, which will include a custom report builder. This will enable users to construct their own...

The latest releases of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify are now available for downloading from the Software Downloads page. Version 3.0.0a is the latest stable release of the software and includes a few important bug fixes. You can get Manage or Qualify separately, or download them together. Be sure to download and install the full package of the software you choose. The full package has all of the supporting software you will need, including iHRIS...

During a March and April 2008 visit to Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar several groups expressed interest in iHRIS Manage. First, Zanzibar is now running a customized version of the software on their new server. They requested assistance with additional customizations and intend to send three people to PHP training with Capacity's funding assistance in order to make these customizations themselves in future. Zanzibar already has a data collection and...

We are very pleased to announce the release of versions 3.0 of iHRIS Qualify and iHRIS Manage. Live demonstrations of each have been posted to this website. Visit the iHRIS Manage page or the iHRIS Qualify page to test out the new features. You’ll see the introduction of configurable modules and increased report functionality. Once you've logged into the software demo, click on ‘Create Reports’ on the left hand toolbar and choose a report that...

As I have promised, we are releasing versions 3.0 of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify this month. We will start by posting new live demos on this website and stable release versions of the code on our Launchpad hosting site . We'll follow that up with complete packages that you can download from this website, which will make it easier to install and try out the software. Writing information systems is hard and sometimes frustrating work. As soon as...

iHRIS Manage is our first offering in our suite of human resource information systems. It is intended to be used by an organization to manage employee information, even across geographical locations and facilities. The system also enables an organization to deisgn and manage a comprehensive human resources strategy. Even though iHRIS Manage was built for organizations employing health workers, it can be effectively used by any type of employer...