About Advanced Time Systems

Our Parent company Penticom Pty Ltd was established in 1992, as personal computer builders and retailers. Through feedback from many of our corporate customer relationships, a need to simply & effectively track the work completed by staff was recognised.

This resulted in our first job costing and tracking system, which recorded the raw materials utilised during the development of different products. It was then realised that this approach actually provided those customers with a rudimentary form of inventory control, enabling them to gain an overview and control over the ordering of their raw materials based upon employee productivity and their work-order sales pipeline.

This led to a further common need for the recording of employee work times in relation to payroll requirements. This resulted in the first version of Realtime (DOS Version), and when released, Realtime for Windows was the first MS Windows based approach to the problem of Time & Attendance tracking. As the name suggests, the system is designed to run under the industry standard Microsoft Windows range of operating Systems. We currently support windows 2000 and higher with all our products. Its design not only makes it unique, but totally user oriented and flexible.

This system development became so well recognised that a joint venture project between Amano Cincinnati Corporation (through their Australian Master Distributor) and Realtime - Time Management Pty Ltd was developed. To this day we have customers using the VERY SAME version of software & hardware combination purchased in 1993. Having been associated with Time Management Systems for a number of years, they knew the need for a new approach to this market, in line with improvements in hardware technology and software design. From market research and existing sites using our early DOS based version of Time & Attendance software, a clear mandate emerged with respect to the requirements for a new system.

The Realtime for Windows system has been in various stages of development, release and marketing now for over 16 years. With the release of the Windows-based system officially on February 1, 1993 the product became the first fully Australian designed Windows-based Time & Attendance system available to the Australian market. There are hundreds of individual users of the system Australia wide and much of their valuable feedback has resulted in improvements and enhancements to our system. The outstanding saleability of the Realtime system lies in its simple design and features:

  • Microsoft Windows compatible, 100% Australian made software.
  • Computerised electronic timeclock to capture employee registrations.
  • Modular design which allows customisation to meet specific client's requirements.
  • Optional interfaces to accounting, payroll, MIS, Job Costing and human resource management systems.
  • Totally flexible shift formats, pay-rates and overtime structures. No limit on different shifts/rosters. No restriction on hours worked. Penalty and/or triggered overtime payments.
  • Daily reports for absentee, shift and overtime monitoring, exceptions reporting, even graphical reports through Excel, Lotus or Harvard Graphics. Design your own reports through the quick report writer facility.
  • Job Costing, Shift Rostering and Access Control options.

In 2000 the company converted the DOS version of Realtime Job Costing to a Windows-based version called EasyTrak. After nine years of development to meet customer requirements, the need for EasyTrak management software was recognised and subsequently developed, which greatly extends the customer / service-provider relationship with automatic reporting, product traceablity and new product management.

In 2008 Penticom Pty Ltd separated the Time & Attendance component of the business to Advanced Time Systems.