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The Open Source movement has dramatically changed the software landscape. Many companies, from large enterprises to small businesses now use Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to provide office productivity, data processing and management information systems support to their daily business activities. Small businesses (SMEs) in particular, now have access to many sophisticated ICT solutions that were previously too costly to acquire.
However many SMEs continue to be challenged by the lack of awareness, appropriate training and cost-effective professional support services which limit their ability to effectively implement and take advanatage of these available technologies. In response to these challenges and the opportunities arising from the increased availability and acceptance of open source software, the Mona School of Business has established the Center of Excellence for IT-enabled Business Innovation, to address technical, managerial, and business approaches to the increased adoption and utilization of these significant ICT resources in the local business community... Read More>>
CoE News Updates
MSB Rolls-Out New Human Resource Management System
The COE together with the MSB HR Department has implemented a new Human Resource Management System, based on the OrangeHRM OpenSource application, that will help to streamline and improve the efficiency of many of our Manual HR Administrative & Transactional processes. One of the major features of the system is the Employee self service (ESS) function that will enable each employee to update/maintain their "Personal Data".
MSB Business Review Goes online
MSB launches the companion Web version of the MSB Business Review Magazine as a means of extending the Magazine's reach to a wider, more diverse audience, and engaging our readers with on-demand, interactive, multi-media content. The MSB Review Online Edition was developed by the MSB Centre of Excellence using the OpenSource software, Drupal OpenPublish.
Today's Featured FOSS
OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. OpenOffice provides the full functionality of other traditional office software packages, and stores data in an international open standard format, but can also read and write files in the popular Microsoft Office formats. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose- domestic, commercial, educational, and public administration.
