About us

Revolutionizing Staffing and Recruiting Software Industry

Akken is the staffing efficiency improvement specialist that helps staffing and recruiting companies to increase their revenue, decrease the costs and minimize their risk.

AkkenCloud™ is the first and only All-in-One, 100% cloud based, multi-tenant software platform for Staffing and Recruiting Industry. The AkkenCloud™ is simple to use, with integrated front office, back office and intra office including social media, and provides mobility to access and work from any where on any device.

Founded in 2005, Akken has helped hundreds of Staffing and Recruiting companies to improve their efficiency, place more people and increase customer retention.

Our story

In 1999, Akken Founder and CEO Giridhar Akkineni created InterWorldNet, an IT staffing firm based in Rocky Hill, CT. He immediately set out to find a packaged software solution that would automate the mundane day to day operations of his new staffing business, but soon realized that no such solution existed. While there where many adequate applicant tracking systems on the market, they only simplified one function of a staffing firm’s business and did not integrate with other front and back office applications such as email, customer relationship management, employee management, payroll, billing, accounting and reporting.

Akkineni immediately recognized the need and opportunity to provide an integrated, All-in-One system that could change the way staffing and recruitment firms run their businesses. Instead of requiring companies to install, manage and knit together several expensive stand-alone point solutions, he envisioned an all purpose system that could be accessed from anywhere, at anytime, over the Internet for a monthly subscription. Akkineni closed his IT staffing firm to put all his energy into the research and development of a cloud-based business management suite for staffing and recruitment firms. AkkenCloud™ was introduced in June of 2007.