Notes: A LOW COST - INSTANT VPN

Nirmit

Raju

Sri Ram

06-01-04

A Low-Cost / Instant VPN:

Nirmit mentioned to me yesterday that Megha is planning to move to Delhi and he has asked Abhijit/Reena to examine the technical issues involved, if we

decide that Megha would operate from Delhi as an agent/branch/franchisee of 3P or even simply as a "Remote/Resi-based Consultant"
have to enable Megha to remotely access (and operate) our Marol-based databases & applications, especially

Module 1 (Member + NonMember)
OES
ISYS
etc. etc.

Obviously, unless she is able to access/use these databases/applications, from wherever she lives, she cannot perform her role.

In this context, I understand Reena is asked to explore the possibility/feasibility/installation

maintenance cost etc etc of a VPN (Virtual Private Network).

Obviously such a VPN would enable her to access/use the databases & applications residing centrally on 3P's Marol network. Equally obvious is that, in course of time, we would have many more consultants,

working from their residences (within Mumbai)

working from other cities.

So, what may be just ONE node today, would, over time, grow into MANY nodes.

If we plan to cater to Corporate Clients located in hundreds of cities all over the country, we, most certainly, need to locate our consultants/branches into a FEW regional-centres. And all of them would need to access/use, MODULE 1 / OES.

The question is,

Is VPN the right way to go about?

I think, NO!

I think Recruitguru is THE RIGHT WAY TO GO ABOUT, because, coming to think of it,

Recruitguru is a much superior VPN!

(overall, with some limitations).

As far as Resume database search is concerned, we have already created, 3P's own/private resume database on Recruitguru – which is far better than MODULE 1.

What remains is to modify our OES (in .Net) and upload on Recruitguru! (-including transfer of Search-results into online OES).

OES, modified & uploaded as an Interview Management Module, will serve ALL SUBSCRIBERS of Recruitguru!

That will enable us to promote Recruitguru amongst multi-office Placement Agencies and multi-office Corporate employers, as

RECRUITGURU

YOUR INSTANT, LOW COST VPN!

And if 3P itself becomes a satisfied user of this LOW COST VPN, by having Megha conduct all of her activities thru Recruitguru, then, Sanjeev has one more VERY POWERFUL argument.

By offering some (primitive?) form of "order Execution/Interview Mgmt." capabilities/features on their websites, Monster/JobsAhead etc. have already moved in this direction! We are the latecomers. They can already claim that their jobsites eliminate the need for a VPN (as far as recruitment process is concerned).

So,

instead of spending our time/money/effort on installing a VPN (to facilitate Megha to access/use Module 1 + OES), why not spend, much less time/effort/money to modify & upload OES on Recruitguru? Not only our purpose will get served, we would have added a powerful marketing-tool for Recruitguru!

In closing, I enclose

a 4 page comparative Tabulation
photocopies of 20 pages from book "Franchising" by Pramod Khera (APTECH) - which I read between Aug 2001/April 2002 (much before Recruitguru was initiated). This book is with Kavita and I strongly recommend that you read the last chapter.

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	VPN (Virtual Private Network)	Recruitguru
Virtual	yes	yes
Private	yes	yes
Network	yes ($^\text{1}$)	yes ($^\text{2}$)
Reach	Limited	Unlimited
Installation Cost	Very High	Extremely Low
Recurring Annual Maintenance Cost	Very high	Very low (nil?)
Time to install/get going	several weeks	Few minutes!

$^\text{1}$ Limited by no. of dedicated lines/nodes provided by service provider.

$^\text{2}$ Unlimited no. of users spread all over the world can "access the Server-based database & applications".

	VPN (Virtual Private Network)	Recruitguru
Data Transfer	over a private/secure communication channel	over public (Internet) communication network
Multi-Media Messaging (i.e. Data/Voice/Image/Text)	Possible - because of high bandwidth	Limited to Data/Text transfer (resumes/results). In course of time, Photos of Candidates could be transferred
Database/Applications	Would normally Reside at one place viz: Subscriber's HQ but, theoretically, databases & applications, could reside at several nodes (of the VPN). This would require an installation & maintenance of a full-fledged IT infrastructure (HW/SW/telecom) at EACH such node.	Resume Database (private) & GuruMine/GuruSearch Applications, will reside ONLY on Recruitguru's webserver, eliminating any installation/maint. of IT infrastructure at any user-end (node) - irrespective of no. of users.

	VPN (Virtual Private Network)	Recruitguru
As far as Recruitment Process is Concerned	Each subscriber would need to have/install/maintain his own VPN if he has multi-plant/multi-location operations. Matter becomes quite complex if "users" are spread all over the world (e.g. for multinationals) - I mean "authorised users" belonging to same Corporate Subscriber	Recruitguru's webserver can host & maintain PRIVATE resume data-bases of any no. of Corpo. Subscribers (for use by any no. of their users) simultaneously/securely. And Guru Mine/GuruSearch Applications remain COMMON for all Corpo. Subscribers!
		This UNIQUENESS of Webservice-model, makes Recruitguru, in essence/in practice, an absolutely low-cost VPN for each & every Corporate - and instantly too! slogan: Recruitguru - your instant/low cost VPN.

	VPN (Virtual Private Network)	Recruitguru
	If a placement agency (such as ABC-having offices all over India), installs a VPN at a huge cost (-and maintenance headache), it has still no control (central control) over which "office" is handling what search-assignment, for whom (client) at what price & what is the current status of