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Digital Compliance Logbooks - Why It's Time to...
Safe & legal logbooks are the bedrock of any compliance regime and are filled out for hundreds of specific purposes by most employees on a daily basis. But this is an expensive, people intense process that is difficult to manage, open to misinterpretation and full of easy to ignore processes. Consequently, measurement and reporting is difficult, as is the validation of compliance.
Read MoreGeospatial Data & Its Benefits to Business...
Geospatial data may sound a little abstract, but it is (quite literally) everywhere. Whether you’re following your maps app to a new place or tracking a parcel, this data helps us to see not just the location of something but its status, travel and any related events – often in real-time.
Read MoreAre businesses missing an opportunity to clean up?
In this digital age, a business’ ability to unlock the value of its data can make a good company great. The UK’s big businesses know this: they’ve been capturing and analysing performance data for years to squeeze out every last drop of value and get an edge over the competition. Yet many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) still rely on spreadsheets and paper-based methods to manage their operations. If you’re one of them, this matters because it could limit your ability to identify profit potential and growth opportunities.
Read MoreWhy the most resilient businesses are Composable...
Digital transformation has affected businesses across the whole spectrum and one commonality is the speed of digitalisation which has significantly increased since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Due to these shifts in the business landscape, there’s a critical need to be agile and able to change gears quickly whilst being prepared for the future.
Read Morempro5: New web portal release
This new mpro5 web portal release is coming very soon. We are always working to improve the web portal in terms of design, flow and features. In fact, the changes and tweaks we have made for this particular release total over 100! The headline features are the design overhaul of the ‘CRM’ area, as well as the ability to link to your single sign on system.
Read Morempro5 Integration API Overhaul
What is the overhaul? The mpro5 system has been providing an integration API facility for a while now using the SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) standard. Microsoft developed SOAP and it communicates using the XML format. While SOAP originally solved a lot of problems and has been the standard for a long time, i t has issues of its own. Some being – having to write lots of code to create the basic request structure and when you send a request through JavaScript the JSON format isn’t supported, meaning your requests have to use XML are larger and can affect speed.
Read MoreSpreadsheets: your business can break free
Spreadsheets are great to keep track of static data as well as personal finances, budgets and so on. They can do some really smart calculations and quickly generate your figures…but, they simply aren’t maintainable for logging and tracking operations like cleaning, auditing and deliveries.
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