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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.

New software release - Tracker Document Maker Service v1.0.67

Tracker Document Maker Service is an optional module for Tracker and a fundamental part of Alpha Tracker - the leading software systems for asbestos consultants and asbestos surveyors.

We have just released a new version of Tracker Document Maker Service, v1.0.67 SVN12, which is more reliable on Windows Server 2012 and is also capable of attaching multiple formats of a document (eg DOC and PDF) in a single email.

Please contact the office if you would like this free update.

Confused about the hardware choices for Tracker Mobile? Take a look at this video

Our Tracker Mobile software, the handheld data capture system for asbestos surveyors and other environmental consultants, can be run on a wide variety of hardware including iPads, iPhones, Android smartphones and Android tablets.

Take a look at this video to see me explain the pros and cons of each style of device:


(Start's director Robin Bennett demonstrating Tracker Mobile, the handheld data capture system which forms part of the Tracker and Alpha Tracker asbestos surveying systems)

New Tracker Mobile training videos online

If you or your surveyors need to refresh their skills with Tracker Mobile, the handheld data collection system for Tracker and Alpha Tracker, go to this page to see a collection of new training videos: http://alpha-tracker.co.uk/asbestos.

Scroll down to the bottom of that page to see the 7 short videos - and feel free to share with your colleagues!

Screenshots from the Tracker Mobile training videos

Our order book is well and truly full

Like all small businesses we go through phases of feast and famine and we're now full to bursting!

We can't believe how popular Alpha Tracker is proving to be with asbestos surveyors and asbestos consultancies of all sizes - smaller ones in particular are finding Alpha Tracker to be an easy way to rid their businesses of the drudge of collecting data on paper and retyping into asbestos survey reports.

Have a look at our new "micro site" at alpha-tracker.co.uk if you want to see why we can't stop the phone from ringing...

trimadvisor.com (TM) - our first ever trademark!

How proud are we!!

We've just had the paperwork through confirming that our trademark application for our trimadvisor.com site has been granted:

trimadvisor,com - helping you find the UK's best barbers!
trimadvisor.com is an experimental search engine and review site for barbers - one we built in Alpha Anywhere as test site for web and mobile development. Alpha Anywhere is our favourite software development environment for web and mobile software projects.

Now we know what we're doing, we have a number of other applications in the pipeline, so watch this space...

99 support calls = busy week on the Help Desk

We've had 99 calls for assistance this week and the Help Desk has been strained at times.  Thanks for your patience if you had to wait to have your query answered.

Latest analysis of support calls at Start Software
Interesting analysis of calls - only the purple and yellow categories are bugs!

Judy's local wildlife!

Judy is working hard in our Adelaide office to bring the benefits of Alpha Tracker and Tracker Mobile to the Australian asbestos surveying industry (see http://www.alpha-tracker.com.au/).

She sent us this photo on Wednesday - that's more exciting than seeing a squirrel in a tree!

Judy's Koala!

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