A newly-launched startup company LogBox Systems, Inc.has unveiled a locally-developed timekeeping solution applicable to both large corporations and small and medium enterprises or SMEs.
LogBox is an affiliate startup company of local software company Gurango Software, headed by Joey Gurango, who serves as CEO and CTO. He is also the president of the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA).
The solution, which bears the startup’s own name LogBox, is a subscription-based (Pay As you Go) Attendance Monitoring device with a customized hardware and cloud-based solution that takes pictures of employees as they time IN/OUT.
LogBox is available in Easy RFID, and Easy Biometrics Attendance Systems.
LogBox, is a subscription-based (Pay As you Go) Attendance Monitoring device with a customized hardware and cloud-based solution that takes pictures of employees as they time IN/OUT. IMAGE CREDIT: LOGBOX SYSTEMS, INC.
Robert dela Cruz, co-founder of LogBox Systems, said pictures of employees that are taken by the device are stored in a cloud-based Attendance Monitoring Server and could be checked from anywhere at anytime from any Internet connected PC, phone or tablet. “This way, companies with multiple branches could remotely view real-time attendance from their head office,” he said.
Dela Cruz said the LogBox SME is efficient and fraud-free. He, however, explained that the main difference of the Enterprise version is the option to link LogBox to an Enterprise Grade HR and Payroll System.
“With the 3G capability and web-based Employee enrollment, LogBox could be deployed in a construction site and attendance could be generated at the office of the construction company for payroll computation,” Dela Cruz said, who is also the current President and CEO of the technology management corporation TeknoLogikaPilipinas.
Touted as a “Plug and Play” device, LogBox has a “Time In Now, Verify Later” feature and is easy to set up as companies can start using it within minutes from plugging it into a power supply.
Included in the subscription package is the web-based LogBoxWebApp that could be viewed in any Android, iOS or Blackberry device with a web browser.
“Another interesting capability of LogBox is that several companies could share a LogBox. A supermarket or department store usually hire manpower agencies,” Dela Cruz said, adding that with the LogBox, all the supermarket’s employees could swipe in the same LogBox but the manpower agency could only view their employees in their instance of the WebApp.
“Companies that we expect so far to avail of LogBox are hotels and other customer oriented businesses. The image capture capability encourages employees to look their best before having their attendance selfie,” Dela Cruz quipped. “LogBox could also help parents monitor their kids by sending them an SMS every time they enter or leave the school premises.”
He also noted that the LogBox SaaS or software-as-a-service timekeeping and attendance system takes care of all the technical nitty-gritty for its clients since it has no database or servers to maintain.
Although the device is only available in the Philippines today, LogBox have designed the system (Cloud-based Attendance Reports) so it could be deployed anywhere as long as there is an Internet connection making it ready for the global market.
“We are actually looking for partners that could market LogBox for us in the US, Europe and Australia,” Dela Cruz said.
LogBox’s other co-founder is enterprise software developer Tonton Ancheta, who is a former country manager of software development company Ignify, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
Dela Cruz’s company TeknoLogikaPilipinas is a Parking Solution provider that supplied the Parking System at the new Parking Building beside the famous Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City. The system is one of the most advanced in the Philippines and is able to handle the sudden outflux of parkers at the end of a show in the coliseum.
