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DataByte celebrates its 30th anniversary with WORKFORCE™ Maltese IT Company DataByte is celebrating its 30th anniversary as an IT solutions provider with the launch of its latest product WORKFORCE™, a fully integrated suite of HR software systems built on a robust cloud infrastructure.
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ataByte has built itself a reputation over the last 30 years, one that is primarily built on guaranteeing its full commitment to all its clients for its software projects. During these years, the company has worked with quite a vast range of clients from various private and public sectors both locally and abroad, and each of these customers presented their own particular requirements. This drove DataByte to deliver high-end solutions that are efficient and effective. Since its inception 30 years ago, the company always gave maximum attention to its clients, so much so that this trait has long become the hallmark of DataByte’s own quality charter. Co-founder and managing director Frederick Micallef explains that over the past 30 years, DataByte has been exposed to a wide range of hardware, software and communications technology generations, from the very early legacy systems on very basic standalone and simple networks on narrow bandwidth to present day complex cloud infrastructures on high bandwidth, and can offer and support technology-driven solutions that optimise the very latest offerings to benefit its clients. IT risks have unfortunately also exploded at more or less the same rate, and the awareness of such risks needs to come very much at play. Director Dr Kevin Camilleri asserts that the investment in more recent years in cloud
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infrastructure has prepared DataByte with some solid software products to offer locally and online, to help propel the company through the challenges of the coming years. This investment in technology and up-to-date knowledge profile comes also with continuous investment in R&D, and is topped with a young team of software engineers who import their own knowledge and aptitudes to satisfy the requirements of the company’s clients. “This combination of business experience and exposure, R&D, technology awareness and HR gives us the key to put us right there as software supplier of your choice,” adds Dr Camilleri. Both directors exhibit a very strong sense of excitement and preparedness for the future and the challenges that will come their way. Cloud technologies DataByte has re-invented itself a few times over its business life cycle. Five years ago, when cloud technology was at its inception, the company started to steer itself on the course to further develop its service offering through a cloud infrastructure. Shifting one’s technology base does not come easy but the company’s focused strategy, resource commitment and R&D were clearly aimed in this direction. Earlier this year, the company launched Fusion, its own robust cloud-based Internet platform on which it is delivering its first cloud-based solution in the form of
a suite of software products specifically focusing on the HR management function. Enter WORKFORCE™! WORKFORCE™ provides a fully integrated solution where the wide range of DataByte’s HR solutions and modules integrate seamlessly with no need for any interfacing or middleware. This product has been developed from the ground up on the basis of a very strong market requirement for its operational functionality. The software integrates all DataByte’s HR modules for improved client benefit and efficiency. The various updated HR modules offered through this clouded solution operate on a common HR database layer and the knowledge base of each module is also fully shared within other related modules within WORKFORCE™. By way of example, a person who is registered as being on leave will be automatically alerted when he tries to ‘punch in’ for work or post a time sheet for the day. Scheduling a job for an officer towards a client project in the Rostering and Scheduling system will highlight the fact that that person is possibly terminated on the date through a payroll function. This is the degree of integration that WORKFORCE™ provides. Mr Micallef says, “although many companies have diverse HR modules to cater for their needs, these are most likely provided by different suppliers, and this degree of integration is very often missing and difficult to achieve. This will be a driving force in placing WORKFORCE™ on the market both locally and abroad.” DECEMBER 2016 / JANUARY 2017