CRIS started off as a desktop application back in 2001.
It used to be called SmartAgent and it performed many business functions.
Business functions including :
We initially held of moving to the cloud, due to the technology being very immature.
Since 2001, javascript and web technology has matured quite a bit.
Just have a look at the javascript history here.
It became more evidently that we needed to graduate SmartAgent to the cloud.
The result was CRIS (Cloud Recruitment Information System). All the features of SmartAgent migrated to the cloud (plus more)