Open source solutions and software
The Open Source Software Company Ltd specialise in the supply and implementation of Lean software solutions which allow our clients to fully utilise Information Technology (IT) as part of their Lean business programmes. We are pioneers in using Internet based technologies to provide intelligent and inexpensive Lean IT solutions to small or large commercial enterprises, predominantly in the Construction, Civil Engineering and associated House selling industries, which allow our clients to optimise performance and to minimise cost.
In addition to supplying our innovative Lean Internet based products, OpenPlant and OpenHouse, we also provide Lean consultancy services to our clients, via our OpenConsult services. OpenConsult allows us to work with clients to introduce Lean into their organisations, via consultancy projects and training courses.
News and Events
New Open Support Contract
We are delighted to announce that we are now working closely with one of the premier, privately owned construction companies in the UK, Alun Griffiths (Contractors) Ltd. Initially we helped them with the emergency supply and configuration of a new Red Hat server, for their Accounts Department and are now working with them, in a support and consultancy capacity, to redesign their network and to utilise our software to ensure that they have an IT system that matches their status as a company.
Currently in the design stage, it is likely that all of their servers will be replaced with a virtual environment that will provide them with redundancy across all aspects of their IT network and will substantially reduce hardware and other IT infrastructure costs.
Sole Pano Distributor in Wales
Our MD, Paul Hilder, has recently been a fact finding trip to San Francisco, where a number of cutting edge companies were visited, including: Cisco; Stanford University; GAP; DRP; LinkedIn and Whipsaw, a leading design company. When visiting Whipsaw, Paul saw the Pano logic Zero client computer, and immediately recognised what a brilliant product it was and determined that upon his return to the UK that he would investigate becoming a Distributor of it.
Following a very short period of negotiation, the Open Source Software Co Ltd have been appointed at the sole Welsh distributor of the Pano logic product. More details of the Pano logic Zero client will be made available soon. In the meantime please contact us for more information or visit http://www.panologic.com.
Site Equipment Manager backs IT based Plant Management
The latest issue (May/June) of Site Equipment Manger has endorsed the use of Information Technology for Plant and Asset management to better utilise plant, save on costs and to cut administrative costs. Some of the savings detailed in the article are quite extraordinary. Click here to read the article online (pages 12 - 15).
Use the OpenPlant cost savings calculator to calculate how much OpenPlant could save your organisation. Don't forget that these savings are guaranteed!
Churchill version due in the first quarter of 2010
Our developers are hard at work producing some more amazing functions for OpenPlant, most of which have been requested or suggested by our clients. These will be included in the next release of the software, codenamed Churchill, which will be released in February/March 2010.
New Features
- Email Automation - This will provide the facility to set up triggered emails within the system. For example, when an item is assigned by a Plant Coordinator, an email can be automatically generated to notify the relevant Site Agent, to a Contracts Manager and also as an official Purchase Order to a supplier! And that's not all, the email can automatically be turned into a fax for those suppliers that prefer fax to email, or it can also be sent as an SMS Text message, direct to mobile phones. This facility will be made available across the whole application.
- Report Scheduling - If you are one of those managers that doesn't like IT and wants to see exactly what is going on without having to go in to the system, then this is for you. An Administrator can set up the automatic generation of reports, which can be emailed directly into your inbox, at a specified time, every day. The reports could include all items hired/off hired that day or what was on hire at a particular site at a particular time.
- Bulk Ordering - This new module will provide a complex stock control facility for those difficult to deal with bulk items, such as fencing, road forms, cones and other such items. It will be possible to order these items in bulk, in the same way that other items are currently ordered within the system. We all know that these items tend to go missing or to get damaged, so the facility to return less than was ordered, or to return part of an order has been provided. When the final part of the order is off-hired and returned, the system automatically adjusts the stock to the appropriate level and creates a charge against the site for any missing or damaged items.
