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First time reaching 300 raised tickets in one week!
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Meet Maria from Finland!
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Maria has come to stay in the UK for a two week vocational study exchange, from the happiest country in the world! She is a graphics designer and animator who will be spending the day here, at Start Software.
Do you care about the amount of litter on our roads? Join our volunteer army of data gatherers with RoadVlog, our app for CleanUpBritain
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Our director Robin is passionate (and angry!) about the state of the UK roadside verges. They are often full of litter and debris and, in his opinion (and ours), it has become a national embarrassment.
We've created a free app for the CleanUpBritain campaign to enable car passengers to log the condition of verges as they drive along. This data will be gathered and used by CleanUpBritain to encourage the Government and responsible agencies to do something about it - the litter is not going away by itself!
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Try roadvlog.uk for yourself - it's completely free |
You can access the app at https://roadvlog.uk - give it a try as you are driving home tonight! Even better, ask your team to use the app to record the condition of roads as they drive around for work - the more data we collect, the better!
We have packed up at FAMANZ - come and find us at UKATA, Asbestonomy and EAF later this year
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We love taking our Alpha Tracker stand to conferences and exhibitions.
Kim & Judy have just finished up at FAMANZ 2025 in Queenstown, New Zealand, and they met so many wonderful Australian and New Zealand Alpha Tracker users.
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What a fabulous event FAMANZ was again this year |
We'll be making an appearance at events organised by UKATA, Asbestonomy and EAF later this year, and elsewhere. Come and find us, say hello, and find out what Alpha Tracker can do for your asbestos, water and fire consultancy.
Our Australian/New Zealand team have a new website. Take a look at alpha-tracker.com.au
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Visit www.alpha-tracker.com.au |
Improved Master Project importer being tested. Better feedback means higher quality data in your system
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Our new Master Project importer is nearly ready and is being tested by two of our beta-testing asbestos consultancy clients.
Look out for the new "Verify" step at position 3 (of 4) |
The change introduces a new "Verify" step to check the sites from your Excel spreadsheet and give you feedback before you commit them to the system.
It will highlight where the UPRNs are missing or are the placeholder "TBC" (or similar) and it will also show you where sites already exist in the system. In addition, it highlights jobs already recorded against the sites you are importing, to help prevent you from importing duplicates accidentally.
Early feedback has been really positive and this updated screen should save your admin teams a great deal of time when checking and fixing mistakes on imports.
Do get in touch if you have any other ideas for improvements. At Alpha Tracker (UK/Aus), we're here to help!