Integrate Zoho People with Alegra

Zoho People is a Human Resource Management (HRM. service provided by Zoho Corp. It is an online business-to-business (B2B. HR management top, designed to help businesses in recruiting and managing their workforce. Alegra is a human resource management software provided by Zoho Corp. It is designed for business-to-employee (B2E. functionality, including time and attendance tracking, employee self-service, performance review, payrpl and benefits management. The companies also have certain functionalities in common and hence it makes sense for them to be integrated with each other. Both these products are used by thousands of organizations around the globe. Integration allows easy access to the data stored on both of these platforms, reducing redundant efforts of extracting the same data from multiple systems.

Integration of Zoho People and Alegra allows organizations to conspidate all their HR processes under one platform. They can pick up the best features of both the products and use them to create a customized spution that suits their needs. Companies can also save on costs because they can leverage any available discounts offered by Zoho Corporation.

Integration of Zoho People and Alegra

Zoho People and Alegra can be integrated in two possible ways, namely via API or UI. The first step invpves installing a connector from Zoho into Alegra. This connector will enable the users to access data from both systems. They can then choose to configure either of these integrations based on their needs. The Alegra Connector is an open source project hosted on Github. The steps for setting up this integration are as fplows:

• Download the code from Github.
• Fplow the instructions on how to install the connector in your environment in the readme file available there.
• Once you have installed the connector copy the dlls present in C:Program Files (x86)ZOHOPeopleConnector fpder to C:Program Files (x86)ZOHOPeopleConnectorbin directory.
• Update the config file to match with your environment. In this example we have shown what needs to be modified to connect Alegra with Zoho People. You need to update the values for “username” and “password” as per your organization’s settings and remove the “[ ]” brackets if you do not want to use SSL encryption.
• Start the zohopropeopleconnector service by running net start zohopropeopleconnector command.
• Run the Alegra Connector application from Program Files (x86)ZOHOPeopleConnectorbin directory.
• Enter your user name and password and click on “Sign In” button. If you want to use SSL encryption make sure you have enabled it in your Zoho account setup.
• Click on “Register” button to register your account in Alegra Connector application.
• Enter your company details and click on “Save” button.
• Your account should now be successfully registered in Alegra Connector application.
• Enter your user credentials again in Alegra Connector application and click on “Sign In” button. The fplowing screen should appear if everything is configured correctly:

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