Winter is Coming....

.....and we all know what that means! No, i'm afraid I am not announcing the new series of Game of Thrones (as much as I would love to) I am merely reminding our fellow bloggers/facebookers/followers of the icy conditions we are probably soon to face, so that you can all be prepared.

And what is the best way to prepare for icy drives and frozen walkways? Salt, salt and more salt. Well that and a good thick coat.

So, if you are lucky enough to live in the local area, get your salt by calling us on 0870 729 0199 or pop in and see us at Unit 8, Hazel Road, Four Marks, GU34 5EY. For more details click here.

Virtual Cabinet - We're too technical for our own good!

In the spirit of being environmentally-friendly, Spectrum have a brand-new whizzy document management system, Virtual Cabinet. VC, as we like to call it for short, is an online filing system which we hope will put an end to piles of paperwork waiting to be filed safely away.

With advanced search features and an online portal facility, for our customers and staff to view, edit and receive documents on, VC is our new best friend. Luckily for us the kind man who trained us loaded a big wodge of our documents on to it to give us a bit of a head-start.

We are now happy to be able to offer VC to all of our customers and we hope they like it as much as we do!

Our poor filing cabinets are quaking in their boots.

FormWorks is Here!

After trialing and liking, Spectrum have decided to go ahead with Digital Solutions' FormWorks system. Our engineers have been armed with iPads and Spectrum have taken a big jump towards eliminating that nasty hard copy paperwork, in favour of the environmentally-friendly, electronic kind.
    FormWorks is an online data collection system, which as you know, Spectrum have been looking into for a while. Its speed, versatility and easy-to-use interface won us over and now we can offer, our clients, an even more efficient service. Technical Reports and Risk Assessments will be flown, through cyberspace, quicker than ever before. I think we need a catchphrase - from iPad to eye? (I'll keep working on that one!)
   Spectrum opted to create our own forms, on the system, based on our existing hard copy ones. We found it pretty easy to load and edit forms and the only real problem we came across, in the end, was the amount of editable fields we are allowed, per form. We have a lot to say and we don't like being limited!
    So if you see one of our Spectrum engineers wandering around the place, clutching an iPad, you will know what they are up to.

Please join me in crossing your fingers that we won't have any water damaged iPads.