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Alpha Tracker Release 37 is now available - it's an important one if you have an asbestos lab or you undertake air monitoring services for your clients
The team have wrapped up Alpha Tracker Release 37 and it's now publicly available.
Release 37 is version 5683 of asbestos software Alpha Tracker which means that there are more than 300 updates since we published Release 36 in August. It's a big update.
This release is also an important update if you have an asbestos lab and/or you use Tracker Air, our air monitoring module. The updated asbestos analysts' guide - HSG248 - has caused us to update Alpha Tracker in a number of ways, including:
non-asbestos samples now count as 2 points in the lab, by default
we have implemented the new "< 40 points" blind checking process
the time that an analyst has started and finished with microscopes can now be recorded
the Tracker Air air monitoring process has been revamped and updated to reflect the new requirements.
In addition, we've also added some amazing new features and made big improvements to others:
the new map scheduling tool with automatic text confirmations to tenants is available - a massive help for any consultancy working with domestic surveying for councils and housing associations
all of our geocoding programming code has been rewritten for faster mapping of clients, projects & sites
we have improved and renamed some calendar screens. "Select Resource" is now "Staff Calendar", and "Calendar" is now "Company Calendar"
the login screen has been improved, including the incorporation of your own company logo
our QR code feature has been improved for better formatting of QR codes for site registers, projects and QR codes for individual items of asbestos.
finally, there is a new project pipeline feature on the client portal - great for your clients to track progress of jobs.
Please do send over ideas for Release 38 of Alpha Tracker. We want to hear from you!
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 automated survey data checking feature within asbestos software Alpha Tracker (known as "AlphaValidator") has been updated again. This follows on from the update released on 11 December (more info here ). an example of AlphaValidator's data check output This update - v1.0.74 SVN25 - is ready now to download from our website and improves the way photos of asbestos samples are validated . Please do contact the Start Software Support Desk (available 24x7!) if you would like help installing the update.
We are open for business as usual throughout the Christmas and New Year period. Thursday 24 December: Office closes at 4pm Friday 25 December: Closed Monday 28 December: Closed Tuesday 29 December: Open with reduced staffing levels Wednesday 30 December: Open with reduced staffing levels Thursday 31 December: Open with reduced staffing levels Friday 1 January: Closed As usual, we are not sending Christmas cards to clients but instead we are donating to our favourite charity, the RNLI . We wish all of our customers a Happy Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year.
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