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Start Software is an award-winning developer and leading publisher of asbestos software, systems for the legal services industry and more.
Want to know more about asbestos software Alpha Tracker? Alpha Tracker is the most used asbestos software in the UK, Australia & New Zealand with more than 60m items of asbestos data stored.
Our legal services software Alpha Legal helps will writers, accountants, solicitors, IFAs and estate agents to communicate securely with clients. Read about developments here on the blog.
I've just recorded a quick video to let you know how 2017 went for us here at Start Software/Alpha Tracker and what our plans are for 2018:
In summary,
2017 was our best trading year ever
we think 2018 will be better still
we have more asbestos consultancies using Alpha Tracker than ever before, and this means we can continue to invest in our software developments
we'll be updating Alpha Tracker every 2-3 months throughout 2018
our Tracker Mobile subscriptions prices have been held again for another year.
Finally, we've completed the purchase of another asbestos software company and we'll be announcing more information in a month or two. This acquisition will help us to grow as a business and will enable us to offer an even wider range of software to the asbestos industry.
Three emails just arrived one after the other - and each put a smile on our faces and a spring in our step! Feedback #1... "We smashed our audit! Thank you so much for your help" from a new customer where we have been providing Alpha Five support and mentoring to help them to develop an Intranet quality & audit system Feedback #2... "hi Tom. It looks fantastic! Very well done" from a client reviewing the latest changes to a web data analysis system we have written using Alpha Anywhere , SQL Server and JavaScript Feedback #3... " The launch of Alpha Tracker here is going really well ... thank you so much" from an asbestos consultancy feeling the benefits of their Alpha Tracker asbestos software installation. We really appreciate it when customers take the time to send us feedback like this - it makes the hard work seem worthwhile!
The news has been full of a new cyber-security threat that has been causing havoc since the start of the month. Log4j , as it is known, is one of the worst server vulnerabilities to ever have been discovered. In fact, some experts say it is the worst. There's a really good summary of the threat here, on Wired.com: https://www.wired.com/story/log4j-log4shell/ The Log4j vulnerability gives hackers the opportunity to do virtually anything on a compromised server - from running bitcoin mining software (causing your server to run at full speed, essentially disabling all of your server running on it) to exposing user names and passwords, or even installing dreaded ransomware. The UK has been particularly hit with attacks, as this graphic shows: The UK and North America are amongst the areas seeing most hacking attempts At Start Software, we take security really seriously and we have already checked the servers which run asbestos software Alpha Tracker , leg...
Our 24x7 Support Desk had a busy November answering 664 calls. It was the usual mixture of questions, queries, suggestions and problems - all good fun! Busy month on the Support Desk! Overall, we maintained our good performance from the month before with 19 out of 20 queries being resolved within the timescales set by our clients.
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