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Starting in early year of 2009, we decide to upgrade our backend CMS system that we've developed. And yes, i got the duty to develop it internally. It was a long road to start and many challanges has been faced. A lot of idea came while developing it, which is really distructing my focus to achive the goal. But since that day, i realise that idea is always changes, that's why we have to start execute it.

In the beginning, the main purpose of this project were to create CMS for interen use to increase our productivity when we developing a website. But then the idea was changed. We prefer not just to create the CMS but it has to be a tools that can grabbed potential people to join the community and communicate with them. Some people ask me, "Why you build a new engine for this, there are so many opensource system out there like Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla etc?".

Well, we love all of them. And we learn a lot of things from WordPress and Joomla. Sometimes we contribute to the community too. But the wired thing is, we rarly use it as our CMS for our clients. Why? Most of our clients needs are very complex and we couldn't use it as the backend system. We believe that each company either the company in the same fields, has different needs and different way to solve their problems. So that's why we try to investing our best skills and time to developing this project. The other reason is our idealism. Most of us are only using the CMS system without contribution. We make money from them but not help them getting stable. Now we came with our new local platform to help spread and share information and knowledge.

Arunna is opensource platform that you can download it here. Untill i write this, arunna project is still on alpha stage, which mean that a lot of things still need to be fixed and expanded. Arunna is not only CMS system that help you to create website and increase your productivity, but arunna is also aqupped with social media features. With arunna, you can create your company website, blog and also close social media to engage with your clients, staff and business relations. 

With social media features at your backend system, now the functionality of your backend system is not just to manage your website or blog content. But you can use it to communicate with your clients or co-worker and share your task easily. In the future you even don't need emails to communicate and share task with your co-worker. You just need to login to your company website or mobile apps (which is still under development). So all conversation will be trackable without copy or blind copy your emails.

If you already visit this blog, i am sure that you also visit our company profile. All features that you see here, are managed in one platform. We just create plugins to build the portfolio section, quotation request form etc. With all that features that we build, we increase our productivity. Some more features are still in development process, especially the social media features. But we try to move fast and give the best solutions. If you want to contribure in developing arunna, you can join our developer team at github.

Here are some screenshot of the arunna backend system:

If you want to know more about the social media features or more project updates, just visit arunna website.