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Oxus v2.3.1: Extend Models

info@evincesystems.com — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:07:00 GMT

Evince Nigeria Limited (Evince Systems) today releases Oxus HR&Payroll suite v2.3.1. In this version, the following features were added:

Dynamic fields updates: Add new fields on the fly for employees e.g. blogs, mentors
Support for daily rate computation in payroll
Support for hourly rate computation in payroll

Dynamic employee fields allow employers to define new fields for their employees e.g. Mentor, blog. The dynamic fields in Oxus HR&Payroll gives you interesting typed fields e.g. for mentor, you can define it as a Text field and define employee blog as a url field. The url field is automatically rendered as a url link in the employee profile and you can simply follow it by clicking on the link.

The following dynamic field types are currently supported in Oxus v2.3.1.

Personal Income Tax Calculator

info@evincesystems.com — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:13:00 GMT

By popular demand, Evince presents the personal income tax calculator based on the personal income tax act (PITA). The income tax calculator is applicable to Nigeria and meant to be remitted for each employee at their current state of residence.

To access the income tax calculator for individuals, follow this link:

http://personaltax.bayo.webfactional.com/

We also have another offering for the HR officer managing a bunch of employees. You can download an Excel template from the link below, fill in your employee information and benefits in bulk and upload. The service then provides a download link, with the processed template and a new column with the PAYE tax calculation for all the employees. Yes, the service is free as well.

http://corporatetax.bayo.webfactional.com/

Evince: This Big?

info@evincesystems.com — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:25:00 GMT

I was accused by stan "the style" madueke of making Evince Systems sound like one of them big companies with 20 Engineers, 50 salesmen, top executives in jackets and big cars. Really, Evince is lean and cars, we have some.

Pay4Me Implements Oxus Suite

info@evincesystems.com — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:16:00 GMT

Newest on our client list for the Oxus Suite is Pay4Me, a payment gateway located in Lekki, Lagos. Interesting is the situation that before now, Pay4Me already has net pay figures employees are used to. The challenge was for a utility to be added to Oxus Suite to enable optimal distribution of emoluments, given a certain net figure and give an optimized tax figure for each employee.

Oxus v2.2: Hr and Payroll Suite

info@evincesystems.com — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:07:00 GMT

This week, the engineers at Evince Systems released v2.2 of the venerable Oxus HR and Payroll Suite. This is a minor release featuring bug fixes, and significant optimization to the payroll formula algorithm fondly called kraphtstan.

Recruitment and Job Portal

info@evincesystems.com — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:35:00 GMT

The latest buzz at the Evince labs is the release of Evince Recruitment Portal, "Evince RP" as a separate service/product. Customers have the option to buy the application and add to their corporate website or Evince get to host it as a hosted service.

25 Fresh and Free HR and Payroll Implementation for 2009

info@evincesystems.com — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:44:00 GMT

Our research shows that a lot of organizations would not buy their current HR and Payroll offering if they had a chance to test run it for long enough. Shocking revelations go for the industry giant database and HR product offerings. Whatever happened to online demos and free trials...

Evince Launches Nigerian Income Tax Calculator

info@evincesystems.com — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:30:00 GMT

If you have always wanted to know your correct income tax, you finally get the chance. Try the new free online Evince income tax calculator today.

Put an end to your fear of taxation now.

Choosing an HR/Payroll System

info@evincesystems.com — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:35:00 GMT

Change is difficult; particularly when it involves software systems. To make changes to existing systems, organizations usually have to consider the following:
1. Cost of training
2. Downtime in cutting over to a new system
3. The stabilization period that is typically inevitable in new systems
4. Effect on the ecosystem of integrated systems that have come to rely on the erstwhile system (availability matrix)
5. Possible loss of customers
6. More Cost

With a right decision the first time, most of these negative effects can be bypassed. Here we look at the considerations when choosing an HR and payroll system; you should criticize on the following points among others:
1. Insist on a thorough demo. It’s even preferable if your vendor has a hosted demo you can discuss with your colleagues and see if it meets your need. Many organizations forgo value for money by buying hr and payroll systems from "big name" vendors. Truth is, big name vendors probably made the name from selling other products and not an hr system.
Your watchword should be: if it's that good, it should have a demo.
2. Total cost of ownership: software systems are not necessarily as cheap as they appear. Once a system is acquired, you usually have to include the license into your annual budget. Some vendors require you license at 50%-100% of initial cost. Sometimes your company have to pay for these consultants' lodging and travels.
3. Integration point: Do this system help your other needs? Can you export/import data as needed? Can you easily integrate with other systems?

4. Ease of use: Modern systems are distributed. Make sure your business chooses a system that is easily deployed, preferable web based. This can dramatically affect the total cost of ownership. With modern web based systems everywhere, make sure to choose a system that is easy to use. From experience, I know really big HR systems that give you four or more painful steps to print a payslip. A fresh example was a situation where users had to write a near sql expression to specify the payslip date.
5. Support: Seal the cost of support before buying. Agree on an SLA. Many software vendors don't have local partners to support their applications. This ends up as extravagant support procedures.

6. Complementary software licensing costs: Do you have to spend millions of dollars on your database and database server licensing. Other applicable costs may be application server costs, reporting tools etc. Remember to factor this into the total cost of ownership

7. Scalability: Do your application easily support more load? What is the cost impact of buying additional licenses?
8. local support: Once again, be sure support is available locally, even if the vendor have a local partner supporting one of it's many other products.
9. Call for multiple quotes and demos. This will help you choose the best HR/Payroll system out there.

NB: HR and Payroll management with Oxus delivers value for money. Acclaimed best value for money with a right price
for every organization.

Evince on top of Kodearena

info@evincesystems.com — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:45:00 GMT

Kodearena is the geekiest developer conference and you could say coding competition in Nigeria and probably the west coast. The upcoming edition is tagged Kodearena reloaded (Kodearena 2.0) after the successful first edition in Abeokuta.

Evince developers, in the pre-Evince years sponsored kodearena as a bunch of individuals and are ready to do it again with whomever is geek at heart.

Now by popular demand, we present...

Kodearena® - http://www.kodearena.com/