What the Task Assistant® Platform is
Imagine a single user entry platform. And imagine that it recognizes your responsibilities within your organisation. As a result, it provides you only the appropriate functionality, actions and correct information. And at the time that you need it.
So that is partly what the Task Assistant® Platform is.
As a result, the available functionality and fine-grained actions are configured for each task, assigned to each role, assigned to each user. Forget the permissions havoc that other systems leave to the system administrator. A havoc, which now, with the data security legislation, will become ever harder to manage.
Convenience and security are therefore another part of what the Task Assistant Platform® is.
Simply said, you get tailored functionality per role and user that is preconfigured and easily adjustable. In addition, the platform allows you to build or integrate additional custom-made solutions that can stand and function alone. More so, they will work with the existing solutions, while being part of the platform. Which means, making use of the platform facilities including automated communication and workflow engine.
In addition, Task Assistant® Platform is software friendly and future-looking. This is easy to prove. Because the platform enables the most suitable blend of Ulysses Systems Applications to integrate with 3rd party products used by an organisation.
In other words, we support our clients and prospects in realizing the IT ecosystem of their choice. The reason is simply that innovation cannot be blocked. Especially in shipping software, innovation is continuous. “All vendors in all shipping domains being a prime example, respond to industry needs, as they arise, doing their best to keep clients happy. Nothing is going to stop them and nor should anything stop them.”
Find out more about how sustainable, usable, configurable, scalable, adaptable, actionable, integrable and reportable the platform is, and how advantageous this has been for our clients
https://www.ulysses-systems.com/blog/task-assistant-integrated-reporting/
Sustainable
Ulysses Systems ensures that its entire customer base shares a single sustainable, configurable platform, the Task Assistant.
Task Assistant development follows an Agile Software Development to ensure continuous quality and improvement. A Platform approach ensures that ship managers are:
Continuously leveraging the advantages of the underlying Microsoft, Web and Mobile technologies the Task Assistant is based on
Consistently profit from new business features that mirror changes in industry or company needs
Actually, companies invest in platforms in the hope that in the future they can create products that can be developed faster and can last longer.
Usable
Task Assistant® is usable and intuitive, which encourages both use and fast adoption of the system. So, the training period of your crew is minimal thanks to:
Consistent user interfaces and navigation of the system for all users and in all modules
Seamless integration between different platform products e.g. Marine Planned Maintenance and Purchasing and Document Management
A Task/Goal oriented approach
Configurable
Configurable Task Assistant® means that Ulysses Systems is the only marine software provider that takes a scientific approach to human cognitive processes and aligns it with corporate activities.
Our trademark Task Oriented approach enables a highly customizable setup and workflows, through the creation of unique users with combinations of actions and views that depict your organization exactly. The system is configurable because it facilitates predefinitions of internal workflow processes. This is essential for consistent and accurate mapping. So Task Assistant®, by being configurable, adheres to streamlined company internal procedures.
Even terminology used in the system can be configured to your company’s own, which helps to make your transition to the new system smoother.
Scalable
Scalable Task Assistant® means that in 2020, Ulysses Systems surpassed the 10,000,000 benchmark of reported jobs on just one client database.
So, together with our clients we look forward to the next reporting milestone. Meanwhile, 10,000,000 reported jobs on one database speaks volumes about system scalability.
Easily Adaptable
Easily Adaptable to the marine enterprise means that, as business needs and technological requirements continue to evolve, so will Task Assistant®.
This is especially relevant in shipping, where every regulation code – such as ISM or TMSA – will change over the span of a typical project. Thus, when there is a need to modify and update, Task Assistant® adaptability guarantees minimum cost and complexity.
More so, our high staff retention rate means that we have consultants that have seen the full development of major regulations since their inception. In effect, through the Task Assistant® Platform ship managers have managed to:
Add a large number of vessels in a short period of time
Add a fleet of an entirely different asset class
Move their management to a different country
Split from a single corporate entity into multiple ones
Companies, in fact, have an interest to invest in platforms in the hope that they can create products, which can be developed faster and can last longer.
Companies, in fact, have an interest to invest in platforms in the hope that they can create products, which can be developed faster and can last longer.
Actionable
Actionable data
Actionable data is data you can track, that you can reuse. In short, actionable data offers a reliable picture of what is going on in the real world.
Unified Data
However, for data to be actionable it must be unified. So, actionable data is unified data. And the basis for unified data is data provenance. The other key element is a model of how data propagates to the processes, where the data is consumed. In other words, where it is actionable.
Taking good care of data
For example, Task Assistant® Platform understands the provenance of spare parts identifications. It can handle the same spare part with many different identities: the manufacturer’s identity, the spare part providers’ and buyers’ identities. Moreover, it tracks the spare part in processes that range from maintenance, to requisitioning, vendor selection, inventory management, despatch of goods and delivery onboard vessels.
Benefits
Quality data access and accuracy drives a company’s ability to weed out wasteful spending. It increases operational efficiency and asset management performance.
Task Assistant® data architecture
Task Assistant data architecture satisfies both input constraints and output needs, while providing required performance. The data form , its location, data relationships and the structure of the data are modeled with the source and use in mind.
Task Assistant® data architecture
Task Assistant data architecture satisfies both input constraints and output needs, while providing required performance. The data form, its location, data relationships and the structure of the data are modeled with the source and use in mind.
Benefits
Quality data access and accuracy drives a company’s ability to weed out wasteful spending. It increases operational efficiency and asset management performance.
Where certain types of mistakes are unavoidable, the Task Assistant has built-in features to identify, isolate and rectify inconsistencies.
Task Assistant helps reduce errors associated with manual data entry. It automates data capture and validates data at the point of entry.
Integrable
Task Assistant® Platform is a Microsoft technologies’ based product, which allows various data integration methods as well as the seamless integration of business modules and ability to plug in additional modules (both Ulysses-made and 3rd party applications).
It also provides the ability and flexibility to the user organisation to use the Platform to incorporate and integrate the most suitable blend of Ulysses Systems Applications and 3rd party products for the organisation.
Integrating with disparate systems exponentially increases value and enables a cross-connectivity which enables a Best of Breed approach (BoB).
Best of Breed ensures that you are:
Choosing solutions with the most features and functions
You have the best type of product in each department
You work with more specialized consultants
Task Assistant has been integrated with other ERP solutions such as SAP, Oracle Financials, Microsoft Dynamics GP and Microsoft SharePoint and SoftCo.
Task Assistant has also been integrated with shipping industry leaders such as: James Fisher-Mimic (Condition Monitoring Software), ShipServ (E-procurement Platform), OCS HR, Kongsberg (Engine Room and Automation Systems), VARD (Automation Systems).
Task Assistant has been integrated with other ERP solutions such as SAP, Oracle Financials, Microsoft Dynamics GP and Microsoft SharePoint and SoftCo.
Task Assistant has also been integrated with shipping industry leaders such as: James Fisher-Mimic (Condition Monitoring Software), ShipServ (E-procurement Platform), OCS HR, Kongsberg (Engine Room and Automation Systems), VARD (Automation Systems).
Reportable
Task Assistant Reporting Module is fully integrated with Task Assistant® Platform database. This module facilitates the collection of information and data from different business units submitted via the integrated platform products and/or 3rd party products.
For example data submitted by the vessel or the office via our Shipping Solutions (Document Management, Planned Maintenance, Purchasing and Crewing) can be extracted by TA, collated and stored in order to produce reports assisting in:
Accident and Incident Analysis
Undesired Events Statistics
Regulatory and Company KPI’s etc
Task Assistant® Reporting provides:
Complete facility for installation and configuration of company reports
Autonomy in modifying company reporting requirements
Repository of near real time data assures management overview of enterprise performance
Assures identification of trends and areas for process improvement
