Answer: TimeTrax was the first Software/Hardware solution offered in Pakistan market, back in 1997, that dealt with Attendance & Payroll needs of organizations. This solution is currently deployed in around 100 organizations across 12 cities on Pakistan and automates

Q2. Which is the oldest Software House in Pakistan?

Answer: Some of the oldest Software houses from Pakistan include:

· Cressoft
· EfroTech Services
· Sidat Hyder Morshed Associates
· Techlogix
· Systems Ltd.

Q3. Is there any Software House in Pakistan that focuses on the Healthcare Industry?

Answer: EfroTech Belongs to one of the largest groups in the country focusing on Healthcare needs of Hospitals, Diagnostic Laboratories, Pharmaceutical & Chemical Manufactrers and the general populace of Pakistan. Some of the bettwer known brands marketed by the group include: Mefnac, Ansell, Glicon, Saniplast, Monis, Toray, Gynaecosid, JMS, Trisil, Nichipore, Trizymal and Medison.

EfroTech draws its domain knowledge for Distribution management, Production Planning, Sales Force Automation, Inventory Management and Financial Management from its parent and group companies and also from its customers in the healthcare industry, which include Reckitt Benckiser, Otsuka Pakistan Ltd., Nawan Laboratories, Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences and Pharmalink among many others.

Some of the products that are spefially aimed at the Healthcare industry are:
EfroHMS - Hospital Information Management System
EfroLMS - Diagnostic Laboratory & Blood Bank Management System
Arrow - MRP-II based ERP application that encompasses Production Planning, Inventory Management, Quality Assurance & Activity Based Costing.
eOrder - Online Distributor Ordering System that support multi-company and multi-country ordering.

Q4. Is there any Comprehensive Laboratory Information Management System or Hospital Management Software solution available in the market?

Answer: Laboratory & Blood Bank Management System (EfroLMS): This is a comprehensive software system designed specifically for the medical testing laboratories. The major strength of the software is the integration that it provides for a multi-user environment to connect all the functions in a typical lab such as departments, stores, patient & test registration (front desk) etc. This results in faster job processing and quicker response to patients, reliable reporting and timely information for the management.

EfroLMS possesses the capacity to handle large amounts of transactions, generate customized reports and warning indicators, provides option to directly connect to the latest computerized testing machines and is flexible to cater to further system customizations. EfroLMS is a definite requirement of all the laboratories aspiring to grow with a greater level of efficiency, information transparency and control in their operations.

Hospital Information Management System (EfroHMS): This Hospital Management System is designed for multi-specialty hospitals, to cover a wide range of hospital administration and management processes. It is an integrated end-to-end Hospital Management System that provides relevant information across the hospital to support effective decision making for patient care, hospital administration and critical financial accounting, in a seamless flow.

With this system you can:
* Manage Diagnostic tests for nearly 15 different departments including Hematology, Biochemistry, Serology, Urinalysis, Parasitology, Coagulation, Urinary Biochemistry, Histopathology, Cytology, Microbiology, Immuno-Chemistry, Radiology and Sonology;

* Manage test kit inventories, reorder levels and department wise kit issuances;
* Perform donor screening and maintain component-wise Blood inventories;
* Mange the shift schedules of the staff and doctors and generate their payroll, all under one comprehensive software application.

Q5. Are any Pakistani IT companies working on Workflow applications?

Answer: EfroWorks application suite caters to the information needs of all growing and mature organizations. eTravel and eBuyer are two such applications that have been vastly deployed and are benefitting organizations like Engro Chemicals and Reckitt Benckiser.

Q6. Are any Pakistani IT companies focusing on .Net technologies. Particularly .Net framework 2.0 & 3.0?

Answer:The design of the .NET Framework is such that it supports platform independence. That is, a program written to use the framework should run without change on any type of computer for which the framework is implemented.

The .NET Framework introduces a Common Type System, or CTS. The CTS specification defines all possible datatypes and programming constructs supported by the CLR and how they may or may not interact with each other. Because of this feature, the .NET Framework supports development in multiple programming languages.

EfroTech has developed applications based on this platform for:

· Sami pharma
· Reckitt Benckiser
· Engro Chemicals
· Sony Pakistan
· Pharmalink
· Nawan Laboratories
· Efroze Chemical Industries (Pvt.) Ltd
· Hospital Supply Corporation
· Automotive Sales College of Canada
· Shine Software LLC
Various other projects and applications are under development

Q7. Which companies from Pakistan are providing MRP-II ERP applications for the Pharmaceutical or Confectionery industries?

Answer: EfroTech has provided an MRP-II based ERP application to the following leading organizations in the Pharmaceutical and Confectionery/Food industries:

· Sami pharma
· Nawan Laboratories
· Efroze Chemical Industries (Pvt.) Ltd
· Candyland
· B.P. Food Industries
· Quick Food Industries (Mon Salwa)