Platform Facilities
Ulysses Systems offers a full suite of shipping solutions for ship management so far. Our solutions are fully integrated and based upon the Task Assistant® Platform, which is a Microsoft technologies' based product, taking advantage of the underlying Microsoft infrastructure technologies and SQL Server features.
The Task Assistant® Platform provides functionality and features across all offered platform products:
- Intuitive, walk-up-and-use interface
- Provides consistent presentation in all platform products
- Minimizes training time
- Encourages use of the products
- Role/Task Orientation
- Provides consistent presentation for all users of the system
- Provides performance support according to each user's role in all platform products
- Single multi-user, multi-office database
- Seamless integration between different platform products e.g. Marine Planned Maintenance and Purchasing and Document Management
- Lower cost of ownership
- Significant flexibility in data collection, analysis and reporting.
- Design, development and management of your unique company knowledge base vertically and horizontally
- Integrated Workflow engine
- Facilitates predefinitions of internal workflow process for consistent and appropriate adherence to streamlined company internal procedures
- Cost-saving data transfer technology such as intelligent data forms
- Assure consistent adherence to standards and individual initiatives e.g. escalation for review and discussion
- Incorporates company best practices through workflow-driven knowledge base
- Configuration Workbench
- Configuration utilities for defining customer organization profile, including business units, assets, users, roles, tasks, workflows etc.
- Complete facilities for installation and configuration of the platform products
- Complete facilities for management of configuration versions (business model) and distribution to business units.
- Communications Manager
- Efficient synchronization of information between business unit databases using compression and encryption.
- Ability to operate over a wide variety of commercial satellite communication and e-mail systems.