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About Start Software

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.

Or need help with Alpha Anywhere or Alpha Transform projects or software development? You'll find useful info here.

Free 20-minute webinar - Wednesday 28 August 12 noon - Alpha Tracker Release 41

Join Dan, Kim & Jack on Wednesday 28 August 2024 at noon for our free 20-minute webinar to introduce the new features in Alpha Tracker Release 41.

Join us on Wednesday

It's as easy as clicking this link!  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88632075774

Do you want to see changes in our Air Monitoring module? We want your feedback

Are you a user of our standard Air Monitoring module within Alpha Tracker and have ideas to improve and extend it?

We're gathering feedback from all of our consultancy clients to gather a list of changes we should be making within Alpha Tracker Release 41.1.


Please drop an email with your ideas to businessmanager@start-software.com or call us on 0333 301 1010.

Check out the Release Notes for Alpha Tracker Release 41

Kim has finished the Release Notes - all 32 pages! - and these are now available for Alpha Tracker Release 41.

Click here to read them: https://alpha-tracker.co.uk/latest-release

Click to see our Release Notes

Here are the other ways you can explore the 500+ updates in this release:

Watch the highlights video: https://youtu.be/ksfoPfQzdEg

Read the blog: https://blog.start-software.com/2024/08/alpha-tracker-release-41-is-now.html

Join the webinar on Wednesday 28th August at noon: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88632075774.

The Alpha Tracker Mobile update will be hitting the app stores next week and will automatically update the devices used by your site staff.  

Contact support (support@start-software.com) if you would like the update applied to your system and they will agree on a mutually convenient time.

Alpha Tracker Release 41 is now publicly available

Welcome to Release 41 of Alpha Tracker with 500+ new features, performance improvements and bug fixes for our wonderful family of asbestos, water hygiene and fire risk users.

Here's a YouTube video to introduce the top 10 features:

In summary, here are the most important changes you'll notice:

  1. Refreshed design
    Cleaner, fresher, easier to use

  2. Our platform has been re-engineered for better performance
    Our biggest technical change yet, developed with our US software partners

  3. Improvements to Single Sign-On (SSO)
    More control and more flexibility if you use a Microsoft network at work

  4. Auto-emailing for asbestos reports
    A new feature that we have all been waiting for!

  5. Auto-chasing quotations
    This will save your salespeople a great deal of time and effort

  6. Counts on Jotter and Forms
    You'll know before you click whether there is anything to read/complete

  7. Asbestos Appointments screen
    The asbestos version of our Water Appointments screen - very useful!

  8. Exports with files
    Easier ways to export data alongside photos, reports, plans

  9. Wallboard improvements
    Functional and cosmetic improvements

  10. Lab Sample Exchange
    Watch out for more announcements including one or two surprises...

plus there is a new Alpha Tracker Mobile hitting the app stores next week.

You can read and download the Release Notes on our website and please do join our upcoming webinar on Wednesday 28 August at noon!  

Here's the webinar link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88632075774

Join our webinar to learn more


Nearly 900 tickets raised by our Support Desk in July 2024

Our Support Desk received 873 requests for assistance in July 2024, a really busy month.  This reflects the number of new clients using our various software platforms including Alpha Tracker, Alpha Legal/Legacy Portal and ecoScribe.

We offer 24x7 personal support to our clients

Here is a detailed breakdown over the last six months:

Month

In time (%)

In time (H) (%)

In time (total)

In time (H) (total)

Total solved

2024-07

91.52

95.93

799

212

873

2024-06

89.62

95.42

656

229

732

2024-05

90.43

94.54

633

173

700

2024-04

92.17

96.35

765

185

830

2024-03

89.72

93.14

672

190

749

2024-02

91.87

95.38

655

165

713

 

 

 

4180

1154

4597


The good news is that nearly 96% of high-priority calls were responded to in the timeframe set by our clients, and 91.5% of all calls were also within our service standard.  That's a really good achievement from Jamie, Zac, Lucas, Tina and the rest of the team.


Webinar recording published! Watch and see how to extract, export and create your own data reports from Alpha Tracker

Our latest Alpha Tracker Tips & Tricks webinar has been published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tO8gDROjEm4

Click to watch the webinar

During the webinar, Robin, Zac & Dan show to:
  1. Run pre-built reports
  2. Extract and export data to Excel
  3. Create new data analysis reports, extracts and exports using the Alpha Query Writer.
If you've got any ideas for the next webinars, or want to watch previous ones, click here: https://alpha-tracker.co.uk/webinars.

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