BRUSSELS SOFTWARE CLUSTER - Bruxelles Invest & Export

formateCh
human reSourCeS (hr)
rue du moulin à papier 55
B-1160 Brussels (Belgium)
phone : +32 2 675 08 41
fax : +32 2 675 08 43
e-mail :
info@formatech.be
website :
www.formatech.be
Contact person
Karl VAS
function
Sales&Marketing Manager
date of establishment
1982
number of employees (in Brussels)
9
turnover (€)
1 000 000 €
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SOFTWARE IN BRUSSELS
general description
FormaTech is a software publishing and IT services
company, which develops payroll management solutions
in Belgium.
The implemented solutions are mainly based on
Java technology and open-source software, distributed
by reliable organizations like Eclipse,
Apache, Ow2 and ForHRM (Formatech's payroll
application).
Its solutions are presented in HR departments,
dealing with the labour legislation, and personnel
agencies.
developed products
For over 18 years, FormaTech publishes payroll
applications in compliance with Belgian legislation.
It carries out the technical maintenance, legislative
follow-up and additional services.
ForHRM, its most recent product, is completely
in line with the labour legislation and the latest
technology. It incorporates a highly secure web
portal, which is particularly appreciated by social
secretariats and labour legislation consultants.
designed from the outset to calculate pay slips
"on the fly", it has several distinctive automated
features.
Its main features are:
■ windows' user-friendliness and intensive use
of wizards for an easy and constant validation
of the data input
■ Production of documents in pdf format (pay
slips etc.)
■ Simplified production of original and
correcting pay slips by a complete data history
■ Availability in 4 languages both for the
generation of documents and use of the
various interfaces
■ Sophisticated management of the accounting
entries
■ Ability to operate 24/7
■ Interface module to easily link the data with
other applications (Time registration, ERP,
accountancy, ...)
■ Many automated features, covering the
majority of joint committees
The automatisms include:
■ Generation of pay codes by interpretation of
the worker's situation, based on a limited
number of basic codes which do not require
in-depth knowledge of the Belgian legislation
■ Recovery of the amounts of holiday
entitlements and the calculation of double
holiday pay
■ Calculation of severance pay and printing of
certificates
■ Management of deductions and overpayments
■ Management of compulsory dIMOnA
declarations
■ Management of original and correcting social
security–dMFA returns
It can operate in stand-alone mode or be integrated
into the ERP or specific applications via web services.
Thus, the contracts and hours worked by
employees are input and managed in real-time,
without human intervention, directly from external
applications into ForHRM. you can request a
salary calculation and receive an instant result or
completely delegate the management of dMFA and
dIMOnA declarations.
targets and references
A company, wishing to insource and build a specific,
internal employment and payroll management
system.
target: SMEs (with large turnover / students,
Interim,...), Social secretariats, Medium-sized and
large companies, Fiduciaries, Public organizations
references: Social secretariat UCM, SMartBE,
Materne Confilux, Field & Concept, Boomerang, ...
Innovative aspects/advantages
As stand-alone package, ForHRM distinguishes
itself from the competition by the systematic use
of wizards, which focuses the administrator's attention
on the essential aspects of the operations,
and a large number of automatisms, which avoids
mistakes inherent in manual operations.
It copes with the complex Belgian wages legislation
and was built on object-oriented programming
techniques and artificial intelligence. These methods
simplified the development of the automated
routines and guarantee its long-term working life
by simplifying the legal maintenance.
At present, ForHRM's web services are unrivalled
for any user wishing to build a specific labour and
payroll management system.
Using ForHRM, users do not need to go deeply into
the details of the Belgian legislation.
Moreover it can also be distributed across networks
to meet any requirement for computing power.
It is a powerful payroll solution, completed by
additional services, built with the expertise of
FormaTech and UCM Social Secretariat.