Our hearts go out to those who regularly commute by train as they face fare increases as much as 3.4% according to the BBC News site.
As this writer knows commuting is costly and even better salaries and jobs whilst compensating to a degree do not take account of the fact that commuters often spend over 15 hours a week doing just that, commuting.
That can be as much or more than spending a month per annum doing nothing but travel to and from work. Of course all this time also reduces the time that a commuter can spend at home with his or her family and friends.
Fortunately thanks to better communications, more facilities to enable commuters to work from home where appropriate there are opportunities to reduce the numbers of hours commuting.
VALE System Services have introduced a number of applications that enable users to work off-line and to flash connect to pass and receive up to date information, sometimes from several different systems at once. It is part of VSS’s skill sets that can enable even legacy systems to talk to secure off line applications without the need for persistent connections.
Why not do this via the internet I imagine that you may ask? Well there are a number of reasons not least of all those around speed and security. Employing flash connection techniques to do updates the users can work off-line at high speed not limited by the load on local broadband connections, and, of course, there is not the risk that an internet connection might be broken or dysfunction due to heavy loads slowing the passing of data down to such a degree that the update fails and the user has to re-input the data again.
Using off-line applications as those designed by VSS the data is updated locally so if during the flash connection there is a broadband problem resending involves no need to re-input data.
VSS’s offerings include systems for sales order processing, purchase order processing, sales contact information, service call processing and remote engineer operations amongst a number of others.
My system does not have these capabilities and it is quite old but does a good job centrally so can I achieve such off-line working is one question we are asked?
Very possibly is our reply before making a detailed assessment as adding such facilities to legacy or established heritage systems as well as making alien systems talk to each other is one of VSS’s specialities. Please just ask us.