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monly referred to as ACT. The company’s first product,
a hotel guest management software, was a billing and
reservation system for small hotels. This allowed their
administrators to track reservations, know who was in
their rooms, how much their guests were to be billed,
and what taxes they were required to pay.
In its early years ACT continued to evolve software pro-
grams for hotels and other clients in the island nation
and beyond. ACT created a program used by a finance
company for the issuing of loans, a British West Indian
payroll system, software for used-car inventory track-
ing, as well as many other products. However, Doumith,
who describes himself as a technical and “hands-on
type” of person saw that along with these applications,
there was an obvious need for the computers to run
these programs. “It was at this time that we got into
the importation of computers to supply these small ho-
tels and other family businesses,” he says. “And, as it
grew, we started getting more into hardware.”
In 1990, ACT also began to provide network admin-
istration for its hotel clients who had no formal IT de-
partments. “We became their IT staff,” he says. The
company also expanded into the government sector
as the need for automation was rapidly growing. As
the company grew, ACT began to provide needs analy-
ses for companies, as well as supplying them with the
hardware that was required. “We came in during that
period of time where everything was manual, so we
were designing accounting systems with Point of Sale,
along with the necessary training needed for such ser-
vices,” Doumith explains. “We started in software de-
velopment and as soon as we saw the need for more
AT A GLANCE
WHO:
Antigua Computer Technology
WHAT:
A single source technology provider
WHERE:
St. John’s, Antigua
WEBSITE
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