Company Auto Timestamp Software for Automatic Scheduling
Question Description
Company Auto Timestamp is one of several businesses in the field of software for automatic scheduling, used by large corporations and institutions to optimize workers’ shifts, classroom distributions, and to solve several types of large allocation problems.
The market has been growing at an average of 40% per year for the last five years. At the moment, there are no major players in the market – specialized companies and products, adapted to specific markets (airlines, education, factories, hospitals, etc.) have, at best, single digit market shares.
Recent advancements in research, including the successful inclusion of Machine Learning technology, suggest that it is possible to create high quality multi-purpose software, able to adapt to different contexts and markets with minimal human intervention (current scheduling software usually requires an extensive configuration process for each client). For that reason, analysts forecast a major change in the market profile, with no more than a handful of significant players providing solutions for virtually the entire market. However, not everyone agrees with this view – some experts and analysts believe that, although promising, these early versions of multi-purpose scheduling software are flawed and not ready for commercialization and production.