Become an Alpha Tracker genius! Join our free 20-minute webinar on reports & exports - Thursday 25 July at noon

It's time for our next free webinar!  Register here: alpha-tracker.co.uk/webinars

Join our free Alpha Tracker Tips & Tricks webinars

Join Zac & Robin on Thursday 25 July at 12:00 to see how to extract and analyse data within Alpha Tracker.  They will be covering:

• how to make Alpha Tracker reports really work for you
  
  
• exporting data to Excel
  
  
• the Query Writer and how you can create your own reports and extracts.

Do you want to catch up with any of our previous webinars?  They're all here: alpha-tracker.co.uk/webinars!

Alpha Tracker Release 41 will be available this month

Our beta-testing customers are giving us good feedback about Alpha Tracker Release 41, so we're confident that we'll be able to release it publicly in July.

July 31 is the big day for Alpha Tracker Release 41!

Here are some of the biggest changes you'll see:

• you can now set Alpha Tracker to email asbestos reports automatically when they are approved saving you a huge amount of admin time
  
  
• the Wallboard has been improved, both cosmetically and with new features
  
  
• there are new management screens for asbestos jobs (similar to the water appointments screen) and for Master Projects
  
  
• our new Lab Sample Exchange might be ready (it's going to be close!) - this will enable Alpha Tracker labs to exchange sample data electronically helping our clients' labs to grow their businesses and work more efficiently
  
  
• some AI features will be live including the ability to summarise asbestos registers at a site or in a project
  
  
• you can now chase batches of open quotes by email without having to write the emails yourself! Again, this is another huge time saver.

Excitingly, there is a large technical update behind Release 41 too, with an entirely new software framework in place that promises big improvements in performance going forward into the rest of 2024 and 2025.

Read about all of the Alpha Tracker releases here: https://alpha-tracker.co.uk/manuals%2Frelease-notes

Webinar published on YouTube showing how we created our ecological report writing tool ecoScribe using the Alpha Software infrastructure

Our latest webinar with Alpha Software has been published on YouTube.  Lucas, Ferry & Robin discuss how the Alpha Software infrastructure (Alpha TransForms, Alpha Anywhere & Alpha Cloud) are all used to build their new ecoScribe service for ecological consultancies.

Watch the webinar on YouTube

If you'd like to watch any of the Alpha Software/Start Software webinars, click here.  And do get in touch if you'd like help with your Alpha-built applications - it's what we do!

Go Blue for Meso... Go Big or Go Home!!! Tom has done his bit for Action Mesothelioma Day 2024

Our developer Tom has done his bit for Action Mesothelioma Day 2024!!! 

Two cans of blue hair spray later and Tom's lovely blond locks are now bright blue to show his support for Mesothelioma UK's annual day of action.

Blue-haired Tom supporting Action Mesothelioma Day

Action Mesothelioma Day aims to raise awareness of mesothelioma and the dangers of asbestos, raise vital funds to support the research into tackling mesothelioma, and to remember and support those who have been affected by mesothelioma.

We support Mesothelioma UK as our company charity (their logo even appears on the home page of our asbestos software Alpha Tracker) and we encourage you to support them too.  "Light up blue" today in any way you can to keep people talking about this terrible disease.  Thank you!

#goblueformeso #AMD24 #asbestoawareness

Support Desk performance in June 2024

Our Support Desk recorded 732 tickets in June 2024.  This was slightly up compared to May (700), but lower than April (830).

89% of all calls were resolved within the timeframe requested.  Looking at High Priority tickets specifically, 95% of calls were resolved on schedule.

Remember, our Support Desk is available 24x7 to support you - so get in touch whenever you need our help.  That's what we're here for!

Brilliant article by Charles Pickles in the Daily Mail: Asbestos-riddled schools, hospitals and social housing is the next big scandal

Our old friend and founder of the Airtight on Asbestos campaign, Charles Pickles, has just published an article in the Daily Mail to explain the asbestos situation facing the next government.

Read Charles' article on the Mail Online website

Charles calls on the next government to address the biggest national scandal of our times: to implement the recommendations of the Work & Pensions Select Committee and finally remove all asbestos from all public buildings.

Here at Alpha Tracker we support Airtight on Asbestos and the tireless work that Charles does to promote the objectives of the campaign.  Our OpenAsbestos initiative aims to make asbestos data more readily available to everyone who needs it.  

Please do what you can to keep asbestos at the forefront of government thinking and to help shape future policy.

Try our AI-powered Alpha Tracker Expert! Ask it anything to help you to work faster and smarter

We've built an AI-powered experimental Alpha Tracker Expert here.

Ask the Alpha Tracker Expert anything!

Try asking it questions like:

• how do I create a new project?
• can I convert a quotation into a job?
• how can I export a list of open projects to Excel?

You'll need a (free) ChatGPT account to access it but that only takes a moment or two to set up.  Have fun and give us your feedback, thanks!

Find the Alpha Tracker Expert here: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-ktm2UEBHB-alpha-tracker-expert