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February - 2009 - issue > Company Spotlight
Akken: Staffing in the Cloud
Poonam Bhattacharya
So, these small businesses use Outlook to manage their resumes, Excel to keep record of contacts and candidates, and perhaps QuickBooks for accounting. The range of point solutions is quite disparate, and often, difficult to manage. For SMBs and SOHOs, this disparity and lack of integration translates into a big lapse in productivity.
That’s probably the reason why, in a span of just 18 months, Akken has managed to sign on over 330 customers.
An All-in-One Platform
For starters, Akken, founded in 2005, is a fast-growing company that provides on-demand, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for staffing and recruiting companies. Forget the steep costs of implementing SAP and other monolithic software platforms, Akken’s solutions are affordable even for a company that employs 10 people and does not have an IT department, claims Giridhar Akkineni, its founder, president and CEO. The total cost of ownership of Akken’s integrated on demand software system starts at just $49 per user per month, which equals big value for its customers.
So what exactly does Akken do, and what is the market it addresses like?
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