Integration is Ulysses Systems’ commitment to the maritime enterprise.
Ulysses Systems Task Assistant® integrations satisfy the maritime enterprise’s need for innovation.
They also secure the continuity of enterprise software by bridging the gaps between precious legacy data, existing software and new systems.
Early on, it became clear to us that the more sophisticated shipping enterprises software needs are, the greater the need for a vendor with integration expertise. This foresight is the foundation of Ulysses Systems integration culture. And it has spurred the company into realizing exceptional integration features, winning us recognition across continents for continuous technological advances.
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We empower our clients and prospects with advanced and enhanced that derive from applying our R&D and patented ownership of new technologies.
Integration, essentially, warrants out-and-out focus on usability and good workmanship. And this is where the refinement comes in. Because, as in translation between two languages, we don’t simply translate words. We convey, instead, the context of a narrative within which the words exist. Likewise with Integration. Integration between collaborating applications must provide for the story behind every process, the context of the story and the purpose before matching attributes and accommodating data exchanges.
Refinement in Integration
Refinement in integration is not just nice to have, it’s a necessity. Because integration is not a “series of points” solution for data exchange. As we mention in our introduction: Integration, actually, is making sure that the story behind every process can be accommodated by all collaborating applications without loss of resolution.
Different applications using different attributes
Loss of resolution comes from different applications using different attributes depending on the purpose of a process. For example, a company wants to integrate a process which requires fuel readings data from two or more applications. But fuel quantity readings are not one attribute each: they constitute many attributes. Also, not all attributes are needed for all fuel quantity readings, because fuel readings serve many different purposes. So since different processes in different applications use different attributes, clearly then, the “series of points” methods for data exchange is not going to be helpful!
Loss of resolution because neither the story nor the context is apparent
Integrations must accommodate the story and the context of a process
We don’t just join systems
We don’t just join systems. We map and persist processes and ensure these are in concert, when this requires two or more systems to merge. And the logic is clearly visible, therefore traceable. So, it also improves, and the improvements execute in real time. So, our customers can adjust integrations with existing and new applications and implement and run them immediately!
Consequently, the modular structure of the Ulysses Systems Integration Engine is fully capable of building the enterprise IT ecosystem that satisfies your organizational IT needs. Without, however, putting the continuity of enterprise software at risk .
Continuity of Enterprise Software
Taking integration seriously means supporting the maritime enterprise’s need for continuity of enterprise software. Continuity of enterprise software includes bridging the gaps between precious legacy data and new systems, and also integrating semi-structured content (for example, company emails) with your digitized processes.
Legacy data
Legacy data constitutes the historical foundation of an organisation’s information ecosystem, offering insights into past operations, trends, and patterns. It provides context for current data analysis and can be important in shaping organisational decision-making, strategic planning, and future growth. As such it is a valuable resource.
Maritime enterprises, therefore, would like to persist their legacy data while pursuing current data from new systems. And as in every industry, this means that company departments managers, who inherit products with their legacy data, have an integration problem: Who will integrate the legacy systems with the highest productivity tools?
An ideal partner
Bridge the gaps. Familiarity with the software challenges of the maritime enterprise makes Ulysses systems an ideal partner in bridging the gaps between precious legacy data, existing systems and new systems.
Integration Expertise. Ulysses Systems integration expertise makes us your ideal partner in building your enterprise IT Ecosystem. A unique enterprise model ensures the development speed and transparency of Ulysses Systems integrations. Customers can expect quick development of extensions to existing software and new solutions, for example:
- Maintenance, Drydock and Automated Crew Experience reduce maintenance and drydock costs with efficient crew skills match
- E-procurement and Warehousing
- Performance monitoring Integrations
- IoT devices Integrations
- Vetting and Class Society Portals Integrations
OS Integrations Ulysses Systems TA Platform Applications integrate smoothly with 3rd party solutions such as D365, Oracle Financials and SAP.
“Supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants Greece 2014-2021, in the frame of the Business Innovation Greece Programme”
ULYSSES SYSTEMS and VESSELMAN integrations
PARTNERS
IN INTEGRATION
Ulysses Systems continues to invest in innovative solutions for the Shipping Industry by participating in “Greece Business Innovation Programme”.
The result is the integration partnership between Ulysses Systems Maintenance and VesselMan Drydock. The partnership offers two solutions to date
LEADING EDGE
TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
VesselMan’s popular, leading edge technical Project Management has been developed in partnership with forward thinking ship-owners.
As a result client satisfaction is ensured. Full focus on technical project management with dry-docking ensures the trajectory of a product best in its class
The EEA Financial mechanism
The EEA and Norway Grants amount to €2.8 billion and covers areas ranging from climate change and energy to innovation and sustainable business development.
Working together
In the current 2014-2021 funding period, EU countries in Central and Southern Europe and the Baltics, benefit from EEA and Norway Grants, including Greece.
Innovation Norway
Fund Operator for the Programme “Business Innovation Greece” and main body for business development in Norway under the Norwegian Government’s Ministry of Trade.
CONNECTED
MAINTENANCE AND DRYDOCK
The first collaboration between the two companies resulted in the Connected Maintenance and Drydock System. CMDS brings together Ulysses Systems Task Assistant®, an asset management software application for planned maintenance of sea-going vessels, and VesselMan’s proprietary software for dry-docking operations.
CREW EXPERIENCE
INTEGRATION
The second collaboration between the two partners builds upon CMDS while also constituting a standalone solution. It tackles the business- sensitive concern of crew experience recording and sharing. As a result, the marine enterprise will experience added cost-efficiency derived from optimised manning, ship maintenance and operational performance.
CONNECTED MAINTENANCE & DRYDOCK
Maintenance and DryDocking Reporting is Seamless
Benefits
A universal integration solution
Saving reporting time and effort
CONNECTED MAINTENANCE & DRYDOCK
Connected Maintenance and Drydock System is the integration project between Ulysses Systems Maintenance and VesselMan Drydock. Engineers can look forward to substantial support and visibility as they undertake technical projects.
Maintenance and DryDocking Reporting is Seamless
Not only is maintenance and drydocking reporting seamless, but engineers can review maintenance data and history in both systems.
Benefits
CMDS benefits are diverse. First of all, the enterprise benefits from consistent and ongoing Drydock Planning and Management processes. Also, straight after leaving drydock, superintendents can start planning the next dry-dock.
A universal integration solution
Happily, Connected Maintenance and Drydock follows a methodology that is eminently applicable, no matter the systems. For example, can be used to integrate other PMS and Dry-Docking systems.
The pivotal element is an integration model that is universally applicable to the marine domain. Moreover, the model indexes maintenance activities and components and understands data utilisation in other applications. This actually creates tremendous value by freeing the marine enterprise. It does this by breaking barriers that force managers to tolerate a poor module simply because it shares data with other modules in the same ERP suite.
Saving reporting time and effort
All too often engineers and offices need to record maintenance in several systems. And it is no secret that this is inconvenient and time-consuming. Now, thanks to the CMDS integration paradigm, users need only report once in the most appropriate system. And the data will be visible from all the other systems in a way that is native to the other system. For example, the maintenance reported on the tablet during a dry-dock in the VesselMan system, can be seen 5 years later in the Task Assistant® PMS system. This is actually indispensable for resources, who must see what work was performed in the previous dry-dock.
CREW EXPERIENCE INTEGRATION
Crew Experience Without Relying OnTaxonomies
The problem of how to access crew experience
Flexible indexing
Factoring in how crew experience affects processes
Benefits
CREW EXPERIENCE INTEGRATION
Crew Experience Without Relying OnTaxonomies
The problem of how to access crew experience
Consider, then, that all crews provide information and records to many different software systems in many different companies. Only a universal solution can bypass the massive problem of incompatability between HR systems. And with a further advantage. That of accessing crew experience in a flexible way.
Flexible indexing
There are two sides to Ulysses Systems and VesselMan’s flexible indexing.
First of all, seamless crew experience reporting during vessel maintenance or during technical projects, e.g., drydocking. Crews need only report once in the most appropriate system. But other options are available also. Namely, the ability to extract and use records from other HR systems in the form in which each system makes them available.
Factoring in how crew experience affects processes
Factoring in how crew members affect ship operations is how the System collects crew experience information. No extra effort from crew members is required. For example, crews report completion of maintenance or drydock activities, as they would for any PMS or DD purposes. By design and in the same move, crews provide the System with their experience records and timesheets.
Benefits
The benefits are that the solution frees the enterprise from rigid categorisations, which make crew experience data sharing impossible. Most importantly, the solution can converse with any HR system with the goal to optimise the manning of deep sea and offshore vessels and the cost efficiency of vessels’ technical performance.
CREW EXPERIENCE INTEGRATION
Crew Experience Without Taxonomies
The problem of how to access crew experience
Flexible indexing
Factoring in how crew experience affects processes
Benefits
Partnerships
