Agility Version 6: It has already been a great year for SoftSols, celebrating their 30th Anniversary and a successful launch of a major release of their market leading CMMS software, Agility Version 5 in April.

The end of the year will be no less busy, as Agility 6 is scheduled for launch in December which will see some significant enhancements for mobile users of Agility. (Read More)

Peter Smith, SoftSols Product Management Director, comments, “Agility 5 has received great feedback from our customer base. The additional new features we launched; Global Search, Training & Certification and Asset Maps have all proved popular and bring significant steps forward in user efficiencies which is what Agility is all about. At our Roadshow Events this year we have demonstrated Agility 5, and even those who have never seen or used Agility before, have said how these new features can bring immediate benefits.

“As an organisation we are continuously developing and enhancing Agility” added Peter, “the framework is proprietary to SoftSols so we are not reliant on any other organisation. We totally own and manage the development of our products.”

Agility 6 will be launched in December, and will see some minor enhancements to the Training & Certification feature launched in version 5. Users will now be able to make selected certification mandatory; whilst qualifications can also be set to be equivalent or superior to related qualifications further allowing internal and external training to be fully managed.

A further additional feature is the ability to raise purchase orders directly against assets and cost centres.
A significant area of development within Agility 6, is with the ALite application, the mobile option for Agility specifically for Android based handhelds. David Hipkin, SoftSols Group Managing Director comments, “We are, as a business increasingly finding that our customers want to work with us in two areas, those of integration and mobile solutions. We have extensive experience across our 30 years of getting our software products to work with those from other suppliers. Typically our CMMS solution is not the first system introduced within an organisation, so it is important for the acceptance and maximisation of Agility that it is able to communicate with the existing systems in the business, be that SAP, SAGE or BMS/SCADA. Our Implementation Team are highly skilled and have a huge knowledge base of other systems, more importantly they have great listening skills as the start point on any project is understanding.
David continues, “Agility 6 sees ALite being given more functionality, moving the product towards the capability of Mobile Expert, which is our version of Agility for installation directly onto Windows mobile devices. ALite gives the same flexibility for those mobile workers using Android devices. ”
Agility is browser based and so providing a user has constant internet access then they can use the full range of features found in Agility. However there are a significant amount of working environments where that access does not exist. Full site-wide network coverage can be hard to maintain plus in certain installations, such as in the health or process industries, sites contain very sensitive equipment so the solution needs to allow for workers being online/offline. Agility 6 now allows users of Android handhelds and tablets to not only receive and manage work orders but now they can create a job from the actual device as they are in the field, so if something is observed and needs doing, it can be logged and actioned immediately. Agility 6 also allows checklists to be added to work orders allowing for dynamic questions to prompt for user feedback on the work order. This next release also allows photographs to be captured as part of the Android Work Completion process.

“Android’s dominance in the European market means that compatibility with this operating system for Agility is essential and version 6 brings us right up to date,” adds David. “As an organisation we are really excited about the opportunity of providing solutions for our customers with Agility, be that for mobile workers in the field or by allowing business systems to integrate with Agility efficiently and effectively.

“One thing is for certain, with the development plans we have for Agility for the end of 2013 and 2014, we have very exciting times ahead.”

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