Industry-Specific Applications

Software built around the way your industry actually works.

Generic business software can take you only so far. Hourglass IT designs and engineers applications around industry-specific terminology, workflows, controls and operational realities — helping businesses digitise the processes that make them different.

Restaurants & Hospitality Automotive Garages Construction Professional Services Specialist Businesses

Industry Solutions

Don't force your business into generic software.

Every industry has processes that deserve more than spreadsheets, email and workarounds. We can start with an existing Hourglass application, adapt it to your business or engineer a purpose-built solution.

Restaurants & Hospitality

Applications for restaurant and hospitality operations, including outlet management, reservations, orders, inventory, recipes, staff workflows and management reporting.

Restaurant Management · Multi-outlet Operations · Inventory · Orders

Automotive Garages

Digitise workshop operations from customer and vehicle history through job cards, estimates, service scheduling, spare parts and invoicing.

Job Cards · Service · Vehicle History · Parts · Billing

Construction & Infrastructure

Purpose-built applications for project, site, material, equipment, subcontractor and operational processes where standard ERP functionality needs to be extended.

Projects · BOQ · Site Operations · Materials · Equipment

Professional Services

Connect projects, resources, timesheets, expenses, documents, billing and management information in applications designed around service organisations.

Projects · Resources · Timesheets · Expenses · Billing

The Hourglass Approach

Understand the business first. Then build the software.

The starting point is not technology. We first understand how the business operates, where the manual effort sits, what information is required and where controls or visibility are missing.

From business process to application

Discover the process

Design the workflow

Engineer the application

Integrate with existing systems

Support and improve

Build, Adapt or Extend

There isn't always one right answer.

Use an existing application

Where an Hourglass application already addresses the core requirement, start with the proven product and configure it around the organisation.

Adapt the application

Extend workflows, business rules, screens, reports and integrations to accommodate industry-specific requirements.

Build something new

When the process is genuinely unique, use our application engineering capability to create a purpose-built business application.

Automate

Replace repetitive manual work and disconnected spreadsheets with digital workflows.

Standardise

Make the right process easier to follow through business rules and structured applications.

Integrate

Connect industry applications with ERP, finance, documents and other enterprise systems.

Scale

Build applications that can evolve as the business adds locations, users, products or services.