We started business in Bahrain on 12th
November, 1991 on the name of Abu Amer
Equipment hiring Establishment at a small shop in a village called “Buri”. We started
business with 2 staff with a start-up budget of about BD20,000 hiring power tools and
small equipment.
We opened our second branch in Manama on 8th
January, 1994, and our third branch
in Muharraq in 2nd May, 1998.
We implemented many business concepts which were visionery in the area at that
time and which helped us become the most renouned equipment hiring company in
Bahrain. We earned the trust and confidence of our staff, vendors, customers.
We realised the importance of a good computer software to manage our rental
business since I opend our second branch in 1994, but could not find a suitable
software for an equipment hiring business, so I started doing my own simple
software programs using Dbase 3 then Dbase 4.
We hired a local software develpoment company in 2002. They were already having
an accounts module, and we agreed with them to to do an equipment hiring module
and link our 3 branches at the time but after 1 year they gave up saying “we did not
realize equipment hiring is such a very complicated business”.
We realised, that unless we have a proper equipment hiring management software,
we could not continue to grow as we were having so many problems in managing
the business.
We inlisted the help of Dr. Mansoor Al Aali in 2004 who has already helped in the
development of many ERP solutions for various businesses, and with the help of 3
additional developers, we started our own independet I.T. department.
The first release of our own software, the Equipment Hiring Module was ready for
testing in 2005.
Today our ERP, The iHire Software ® with 7 different modules capable of supporting multiple businesses, multiple branches, multiple types of equipment, multiple types of users and with multiple user rights.
We were able to make a big leap forward in our business operations with the help of
the iHire Software ®. The system gives the management up to date information and
control of all equipment, staff, vendors, customers, fuel, spare parts, etc.
The iHire software system is a time tested rental management software which has
never encountered a crash since it became live on 2005.
In 2012 we registered the Mister Machine ® and iHire Software ® brands.
Today Mister Machine ® is operating from 6 locations in Bahrain with 88 different
equipment divisions hiring most types of equipment and is looking for international
business partners to establish the Mister Machine ® brand across the world.
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