‘Applying technology to improve business efficiency’ was the theme of a conference held earlier this week by 6PM to showcase some of the main products and solutions that are being developed and delivered by the company locally and abroad.
The Deputy CEO of 6PM Steve Wightman explained that 6PM looks at the latest innovation available on the market and tries to bring this together to create better solutions for the end users.
A case in point is iFIT, an RFID solution that 6PM started to develop three years ago together with Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust. Originally iFIT was developed to track medical health records. Ron Burdis, the iFIT Business Unit Director at 6PM, said that today iFIT is branching out not only in other areas of hospitals but also in evidence management, assets tracking and management, transport, case management integration and in engineering management integration.
When looking to enrol people, companies like 6PM do not only look at employing the most tech savvy people in the market. Peter Bugeja, 6PM’s Chief Operating Officer, said instead 6PM looks for people who are creative and are able to work side by side with health professionals to develop solutions that make a difference in a patient’s life.
6PM is currently looking at how it can address the needs of small and medium enterprises in Malta. John Deguara, 6PM’s Chief Strategy Officer, said companies wanting to invest in their growth can make use of two solutions provided by 6PM. 6PM presented Pegasus Enterprise Resource Planning Software and an Electronic Document Management Solution scalable and flexible enough for the majority of budgets and company sizes.
SkySync is 6PM’s tool that aims to bring the cloud to one’s data servers. David Vassallo, Senior Technical Architect at 6PM, said SkySync aims to bridge the gap between the needs of the users and IT by acting as a safe conduit between one’s file servers and the internet. The user can either opt to host SkySync on premise or at 6PM’s datacentre.
Revenue leakage is a main headache that affects all kinds of businesses, whether big or small. Alan Davis, the CEO of i5 Services, said that a typical company loses around 1 to 3 per cent of its annual revenue in such leakages. i5 has been developing solutions to address this haemorrhage resulting in big savings for hospitals and corporations where they were applied. Citing a case in point he said that i5 Services helped the University of Utah Hospital increase inpatient revenues by 2 million dollars per month through its services. 6PM is playing an instrumental role in the commercialization of this technology.