In this months issue...

Pay-as-You-Go Support Services Completed Projects and Success Stories Safety & Quality - Incident Reporting Fax / Telex Messaging Solution Condition Based Maintenance

Dear Reader,

At SRO, our core values, business objectives and integrity are of the utmost importance. Therefore, at every stage, we keep these in mind to ensure that everything we do meets the high standards we originally set ourselves in order to ensure we are always able to deliver on our promises. I hope from the information below, you will agree that we remain true to our word?

Increasing Software Annual Fees and the effectiveness of many support desks is of growing concern. In recognition of this and based on increasing demand from our growing customer base, we have spent the last couple of months looking at alternatives and, as a consequence we are launching our ‘PAYGO' ‘Pay-As-You-Go' Support, a service that we hope you agree fits perfectly with one our main objectives – “to add value to your software investments”.

Since our previous newsletter, not only have we been extremely pleased with the amount of work being entrusted upon us but perhaps most satisfying has been the type and variety of projects we are now involved with. This variety fits exactly with another of our objectives – “to provide cost-effective & flexible resources to meet the demands of all your day-to-day business operational needs” - therefore many thanks for your business to-date and continued support, we really appreciate the confidence being shown in our new Company.

From the outset we stated that - “SRO will combine its in-house knowledge and consulting expertise with selected 'best-of-breed' software & hardware vendors…” - so I am pleased to announce our latest partner agreement with Cabis Solutions Ltd, increasing our product portfolio and enabling SRO to provide an excellent and innovative solution for your ever increasing Safety & Quality requirements.

Thank you for taking the time to read our newsletter and many thanks to all for the responses and support we have received over the last few months it is most gratifying to know that we are on the right track!

Best Regards

Steve Driver
Director

SRO Solutions Ltd
"Adding Value to Your Software Investments"

We are pleased to announce our new ‘Systems Integrator Partner Agreement' with Cabis Solutions Ltd of Manchester, UK. Under the terms of the agreement, SRO will promote, sell & deliver Cabis Solutions software products to the maritime market.

“Based on the successful delivery of a 300 user system to Jo Tankers of Norway for their 25 vessel fleet and worldwide offices and after extensive market research, Cabis quickly identified a large maritime demand. But as a consequence, also recognized the need for the most effective distribution sales channel. For this reason, SRO were selected based on their many years of experience, market knowledge and reputation”, said Dr Adrian Dore, Managing Director for Cabis.

Cabis Solutions Limited, a Microsoft Certified Partner, is a leading developer of computer-assisted business improvement systems, including business development, safety and quality management, performance management and people management.

At SRO we set out to “add value” and work with ‘best-of-breed products', therefore the partnership with Cabis further complements our main business objectives and significantly strengthens our product portfolio. Safety & Quality are of paramount importance in our industry and software is an essential tool for managing the administration. Unfortunately many of the traditional maritime software products tend to be over complicated, inflexible, not very user friendly and, when considering the usually necessary bespoke modifications and ongoing annual fees fees, the total cost of ownership for such systems becomes very high.

The Cabis system provides easily executable processes governed by company policies and standards. Controlled documents are integrated with an effective incident management facility. Developed in Microsoft .NET the system operates on a variety of SQL database platforms and combines a shipboard ‘thin-client' and office ‘smart-client' interface to ensure complete flexibility and user-friendliness as well as a simple but effective means of ship-to-shore replication using XML file data exchange.

With a combination of flexible licencing & support arrangements along with a cost-effective implementation process, the systems deliver optimum value with a measurable ROI. Click here for more information.

SRO recently implemented a solution for Liverpool based ship management company ‘Meridian Marine'. With additional bespoke applications created by SRO, Meridian were given the added ability to send fax messages directly from their purchasing systems which include ShipNet and AMOS M&P.

SRO Solutions have formed reseller agreements with both ‘GFI' and ‘Codestone Communications'.

GFI provide high end security and messaging solutions including a gateway fax solution that allows users to receive fax messages directly in their email inbox in the form of a PDF document. It also allows users to send fax messages from their preferred application such as Microsoft Word or Outlook and as the software is installed at the server gateway fax messages can be sent/received by users when working remotely.

Codestone Communications provide and additional product that complements the GFI fax gateway software which adds the ability to send/receive telex messages using your preferred email client.