“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” – Peter Drucker, Management Guru

When it comes to fleet management, there are a number of things that organisations need to keep track of. From the operating costs associated with each vehicle to how often individual cars are used and the environmental performance of your fleet, it can be easy to get bogged down or fall behind if you are managing your fleet manually.

This is where customised software from Lornit can take the hassle out of fleet management. Our dedicated fleet management software can give you instant access to the details you need to make informed decisions about your fleet – cutting costs and helping you work as efficiently as possible.

We can help you reduce costs.

Whether you are keen to manage your overall operating costs more effectively, keep tighter tabs on your fleet expenditure, reduce your carbon footprint or monitor the fuel efficiency of your fleet and your drivers, Lornit’s FMS can get you the information you need instantly.

With the capability to store a vast amount of knowledge; geographical positions, journey information, fuel and vehicle expenses, mileage, driver behavior readings, we provide you with all the real-time information you need to manage your fleet effectively.

When it comes to fuel efficiency, Lornit.FMS can help you track and monitor your fuel consumption in a variety of ways. Our system can identify excess fuel consumption, fuel theft, over-charging or excess filling, so that action can be taken if necessary.

Lornit.FMS, calculates the specific costs associated with running each vehicle in your fleet, right down to the euros you spend every month and the cents per kilometre. It also keeps track of your ongoing costs such as; registration, fuel use, servicing and maintenance, as well as the price of your vehicle and its estimated resale value at the end of your ownership period. With this knowledge you can evaluate which of your vehicles are most efficient and identify areas where further cost improvements can be made.

Why Lornit?

Lornit is a leading provider of fleet management solutions, Lornit’s unique software service allows you to manage your company vehicles efficiently and in a cost effective manner. Best of all, our customisable solutions can be modified to meet any specific requirements you may have. Contact Lornit today and find out how our fleet management program can support your organisation.

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Vehicle Tracking – we’re giving away our services!

Track your vehicle for just €0.50c per day… all inclusive! You don’t need to spend another cent!

Make your vehicle tell you when something is wrong, and then take action from a Personal Computer (PC), Tablet and Smart Phone, iPhone or Android. Take control of your vehicles, NOW!

Call us for a free quotation as further discounts might apply.

Vehicle Tracking Services

For more info about our tracking services:

• Tracking features and functionality
• Fleet Management
• Custom Tracking for your business fleet
• Smartphone Apps: Android, iPhone, Windows mobile

Do you have tracking already?

it is not a problem. Contact us for more info.

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Keeping health records on paper is not an option anymore. Not only it is a huge time waster for all the medical staff involved, it also has limited use is improving the healthcare services being provided.

Health records should be kept on an IT System that allows for distribution of the information to research and decision making centres in a reliable and efficient manner. Health Records should be the basis of decision making within the Health Care establishment. Whether to decide which medicine works best or to come up with better procedures, the data that is collected over time can be put to good use if it exists on a digital platform.

The future of Health Care, or rather if we want health care to make huge progress, we have to start sharing health records between hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, research centres etc; not the personal information of course but the anonymous records that can provide the basis for research and decision making across continents.

Please check out our IT Solution for Hospitals, Clinics and Health Care establishments.

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A particular interpretation of Parkinson’s Law states that: Demand rises to meet supply. This is true in many scenarios and one such scenario is the world of IT and information systems.

Many times information system providers are presented with a set of functional requirements that the client or his consultant determine as “all that the client requires”. Many times this is close to the truth except for the element of time. What is enough for today, may not be enough for tomorrow. A system defined with today’s requirements in mind is not future proof. Any consultant/analyst worth his salt would try to anticipate the functional requirements of a couple of years ahead. However the future is very hard to anticipate.

As a rule of thumb, parkinson’s law should be considered when defining the requirements of an Information System especially when the investment is going to be sizeable and for the longer term. Demand for features will rise to meet the supply of features. It’s better and more cost effective to err on the “I’ll take that” rather than on the “I’ll skip that”. If the feature is good and you can afford it, take it. Today or tomorrow the organisation will surely scale up to use the additional features if they are there. While if you don’t take it right from the start, and then a couple of years down the line, you end up needing it; it’s probable that either you won’t get it or if you get it the cost of implementing it disjointly would be higher that if you had ordered it right from the start.

But then it all depends on the software! When choosing an Information System provider always balance the functional requirements you’re getting today together with the ability to request additional features, at affordable prices, tomorrow.

More information on a scalable Information System>>

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We offer custom fleet management software that we tailor to your exact requirements. That doesn’t mean we create a system from scratch, we have all the components that you need in place and we just configure the parts together according to:

• your type of fleet
• your specific business processes
• responsibilities within your organisation
• your goals
• your way of doing things

And… it doesn’t cost a fortune, we deliver high end technology at the price that small businesses afford.
And… it doesn’t take long to get, using our rapid development platform, we set you up in days.

How it works

Act now

Call us now for a complementary consultancy session to discuss your specific requirements and how we can help you manage your fleet better. (mob: +356 9999 4203 or sykpe: sturdut)

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Turtle

As IT professionals we frequently face the fact that the software we create is resisted by the users of the solution we designed and created. I for one have a particular sad experience in a previous employment, from which I learned a lot, and I’m sure I’m not the only one out there to have had this experience.

The force field analysis is a tool that can help us understand the social dynamics of such a situation. This tool is rather a framework for looking at factors (forces) that influence a situation. Forces can either drive you towards a goal (helping forces), or block you from reaching a goal (restraining forces).

This principle/framework was developed by Kurt Lewin for the study of social sciences; however the development was rendered influential as well in other fields of study such as organisational development, process management and change management. Deploying an IT Solution is a change in itself that should be managed by any professional who is worth his salt.

In the force field analysis model Kurt Lewin described any current level of performance or being to be in a state of equilibrium between the driving forces that encourage progress and the restraining forces that discourage progress. Driving forces are generally positive, reasonable, and logical while restraining forces are generally negative, unreasonable and illogical. Both forces have to be taken into account when dealing with a change, such as when we deploy or are planning to deploy an IT Solution.

Increasing driving forces will only do so much. The restraining forces will act like pushing against a spring, the more you push the harder it becomes until they thrust the driving forces back down to the previous point of equilibrium. I admit I experienced that too; I pushed harder and harder. More demos, more one to one sessions, more training, more advertising, more quick fixes, more answers to questions raised but still after a while the restraining forces just push back.

To reach certain goals rather than pushing forward, a different approach is required; the approach of synergy to reduce or eliminate the restraining forces. This can be achieved by approaching the goal, (in this case the deployment of the IT Solution) with win/win thinking and the ability to seek to understand first. We need to understand that the restraining forces in most of our cases act on a human level rather than the technological level, providing technical solutions will not cut it. Our IT Solution however good as it might be, could be affecting stakeholders in different ways; from just being a new thing to be learned to for example the thought that the improved functionality could make one redundant. To be successful in our endeavour we need to act on the human level too. We have to create a conductive environment where such restraining forces can be discussed. When we make it safe for stakeholders to talk about these restraining forces, we manage to loosen them up; un-freeze them.

By encouraging communication between all the stakeholders we can identify and analyse the restraining forces. Just by being nice and seeking to listen first, we set ourselves up for success. As stakeholders communicate with us and between themselves, we’ve opened up creative channels on the human level, which will put the stakeholders on our side. That synergy will surely lead to problem resolution that benefits both us in terms or reaching our goals and the stakeholder who can now take up our software with lower concern and higher sense of security that the IT Solution that we are providing will be a positive change on the human level as well.

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We just launched NowTracker.com, a website that caters for Fleet Management Services for local and international customers. Besides the standard vehicle tracking facilities, through NowTracker we aim to offer a more specialised service that goes way beyond vehicle and asset tracking. Though NowTracker we aim to deliver comprehensive fleet management service through state of the art technology and our business intelligence platform.

At NowTracker.com we are also offering reseller programmes to software houses, autodealers, car leasing companies and emergency services who can add tracking to the services that they already offer to their customers.

Please visit NowTracker.com for more information.

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The iPhone is a powerful development environment, most people have the ability to create an iPhone App. The App store means that the distribution of an app is not anymore dependent on iTunes running on the typical Mac or PC. Application security and data security layers are there to use making development and deployment even more trivial. And above all users love iPhone Apps… users hardly need convincing to use iPhone Apps, they love them already.

What about business? Will apps matter to business? And the answer must be a loud “Yes”. One of the main strengths of the iOS (the operating system for iPhones and iPads) platform is that it is now open to developers but is still being managed by Apple. And what that means is that an iPhone App achieves the same quality one would expect of any apple product but can be developed by any Tom, Dick and Harry. Openness and accessibility translate into more innovation, as businesses and individual employees are allowed to try to get more productive with mobile business apps.

This openness and accessibility however can lead into chaos. As more business users create more new mobile business apps or download them from the App Store, things can get a bit messy. The data that was previously centralised and relatively easy to organise can now reside on a multitude of apps that focus solely on the function they serve with little consideration for integration with a central system. The information systems we’re used to control and manage the data across various applications. Information systems collate and distribute that information to the employees who need that data. This traditional system can now be jeopardised by the multitude of business apps that take over bits and pieces of information away from the central server.

At Lornit we’re currently exploring ways of using the iPhone as a mobile front end for our business intelligence platform. We believe the future of mobile apps for business is not in separate mobile apps but in business apps that complement each other and the traditional central information system. We believe that apps that converge will ultimately restore and maintain the order of mobile application use in the business market.

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Through i360 we can now also deliver tracking and fleet management functionality within our Lornit.BI solutions. Our clients can just hook their fleet up with tracking devices from i360 and their fleet all the related information is directly accessible from other modules such as Accounts, Billing and Invoicing, HR and CRM.

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