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Our Environment
Employees describe the Data-Tronics work environment as relaxed, professional, and team-oriented. Every employee focuses on the goals of the company. If one needs to get an answer to a question or bounce an idea off someone, there is always a colleague willing to help.
Our company provides all of the benefits of a large company, but it is small enough that you won't get lost in the crowd. Employees feel like part of a family. All employees, from entry-level personnel to upper management, address each other on a first name basis. Management is a big believer in the "promotion-from-within" principle and in keeping the lines of communication open to all of their employees. Employees enjoy a high degree of job security. An effort to increase staff size has occurred every year since the early 1970s, and the company's historically low turnover rate best describes employee satisfaction with their jobs.
Data-Tronics believes in doing quality work, but we also understand there are important concerns outside the office. There is a true spirit of community inherent in the Data-Tronics' employees. Many involve themselves in civic, charitable, church, and school organizations.
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Full-time positions are typically 40 hours per week Monday through Friday. The typical shift is eight to five, but staggered shifts are available if approved by an employee's supervisor. In addition, a flex-time program is available to Systems Analysts and Information Specialists who have completed the initial training process. This allows flexibility in their normally scheduled work hours. Travel requirements are minimal. Data-Tronics provides a comfortable and productive work environment.
The technical environment at Data-Tronics makes up a wide diversity of programming environments and operating systems. Operating system environments include Windows (2000, 2003, XP, Vista) on Intel-based platforms; z/OS running on IBM z-architecture with CICS, DB2, and a major batch workload; and limited UNIX. PC application development is done in HTML, XML, DHTML, VBScript, JavaScript, Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, Turbo Pascal, C, and C++. We utilize OLAP, ASP, client/server, and standalone PC applications. A wide variety of PC software is used for web development, word processing, spreadsheets, graphics, and presentations. Mainframe development is done using IBM COBOL, Assembler, JCL, and REXX languages using mainframe methods and tools under TSO/ISPF and CICS.
For several years, Data-Tronics has served our corporate direction by exploiting company intranets, further expanding e-Commerce/e-Business on the Internet, and further developing our Enterprise-Class Network. In addition, the use of the Internet has been greatly exploited to provide Data-Tronics' customers with more online services and data access. As a result, our ABF Freight System, Inc.®: websites have been repeatedly recognized for its excellence and innovation. In 2006, www.TimeKeeper.com prompted InformationWeek magazine to include ABF®: among its InformationWeek 500. In 2005 the Web Marketing Association awarded ABF U-Pack Moving®: a WebAward for its website at www.upack.com. U-Pack®: was named the Best Institutional Services Website for 2005, a category won by Standard and Poor’s in 2004.
Also in 2005, ABF was named as the exclusive recipient for the entire transportation industry of CIO magazine’s Enterprise Value Award. The award recognizes exemplary application of information technology (IT). Underscoring the collaboration between IT and business management, this prestigious award is bestowed upon a select group of organizations that leverage IT to achieve business results. CIO selected ABF as the best in transportation because of its innovative tools for managing freight transportation via Internet-based applications. The company’s website, abf.com, provides the infrastructure that powers its e-commerce applications.
ABF also garnered consecutive listings among the winners of CIO magazine's annual CIO 100 awards competition in 2004 and 2005. The annual award program recognizes organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology (IT). The themes were the "Agile 100" and the "Bold 100," recognizing what the magazine called "intelligent risk-taking – innovation in the use of information technology to increase your organization's ability to compete with new products and services, to heighten customer satisfaction, and to continuously adapt processes to enable innovation throughout the business."
In 2003, ABF earned two awards in InfoWorld magazine's annual listing of the top 100 enterprise projects using information technology to creatively achieve business goals. These awards involved Data-Tronics developing both ABF's website as well as an ABF microbrowser system called NetLink. NetLink uses wireless technology to streamline procedures across ABF's vast transportation network.
Due in large part to the continuing support of Data-Tronics, ABF has a distinguished record of achievement. ABF is the only five-time winner of the American Trucking Associations President’s Trophy for Safety and the only four-time winner of the Excellence in Security Award. ABF also is the only carrier to earn both the Excellence in Claims/Loss Prevention Award and the Excellence in Security Award in the same year, which ABF accomplished twice.
As new technologies emerge, Data-Tronics continues to research and implement those technologies that serve to advance our strategic initiative.
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