Dubai World Trade Centre, a venues and events operator in Dubai.
An employee-management system for Dubai World Trade Centre, in two months
Dubai World Trade Centre needed an internal employee-management system and did not want to hire locally for a fixed piece of work. A dedicated four-person team built it and deployed it within two months, and the internal IT team took it over.
4engineers on a dedicated team, two full-stack and two mobile
Employee recordsOne profile per person, with the approval chain built in
Scheduling and attendanceRecorded against the record, not beside it
ApprovalsManagers act on requests from one queue
Role-based accessManagers see their people, administration sees the organisation
Mobile accessRequests and approvals away from a desk
ReportsThe questions the administration team is asked
The system, drawn from the story.
Screens from this system are being added.
The situation
Staff records, scheduling and approvals for an operation the size of Dubai World Trade Centre lived across spreadsheets and email, and the internal IT team carried a backlog it could not clear while also running the venue. The organisation needed a system built by a team it could stand up quickly, without hiring locally for a fixed piece of work.
What we built
A dedicated team assembled for the engagement rather than hired locally
Full-stack engineers and mobile developers
A central employee record with the approval chain built in
Scheduling and attendance recorded against that record rather than beside it
Role-based access, so managers see their own people and administration sees the whole organisation
Mobile access for staff, so requests and approvals happen away from a desk
Reporting for the questions the administration team is actually asked
Deployment, with the internal IT team taking the system over
What changed
Workflows that had crossed several files now run through one system, the IT backlog shrank, and the organisation got the build at well below what a local team would have cost.
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