News

Fourth Quarter Update and Contract Wins
10 June 10
The recent selection of Allocate and Healthroster by the Department of Health, New South Wales, validates our international expansion strategy. The new contract with the Australian Army, building on our relationship with the Royal Australian Navy, clearly reinforces our position within the Defence sector, particularly across the Commonwealth and Coalition forces community.
We are committed to the adoption of solutions that will help us plan and deploy our team of engineers as we grow our business worldwide.
Arthur McEwen, VP Operations and Chief Engineer - Acergy

Solutions

Having worked alongside many of the world’s foremost maritime organizations, Allocate Software has become an industry leading supplier of workforce optimization solutions. Their crew management software suite has been used across a variety of maritime sectors including shipping, offshore engineering and cruise lines.

The Challenges
Meeting the complex requirements of maritime workforce planning is becoming increasingly difficult in today’s climate and made even more so with the demanding maritime regulations. With a global shortage of experienced, qualified crew and personnel, organizations have to constantly find the most effective and efficient use of skills and resources. From the growth of a shipping fleet, the expansion of the offshore oil and gas industry to cruise lines entering new markets, they must rapidly manage their growth in order to remain competitive.

The Solution
Allocate Software realizes that to address these challenges, organizations need to be provided with a comprehensive, intuitive and scalable solution to maritime and offshore crew scheduling and fleet planning. With over a decade of experience in the maritime industry, the MAPS Maritime Suite has been developed to provide customers with a powerful portfolio of crew management and resource planning applications. The solution provides:

  • Fleet & Crew Planning and Scheduling combined into an integrated task.

  • A single view of workforce capability; matching crew qualifications/competencies with the demands of the organization and IMO, while identifying training needs.

  • An improvement in the effectiveness of an organization’s maritime crew management.

  • Statistical analysis of real-time data for the purpose of planning.

  • A common set of applications to plan and manage the workforce.

  • The transition from simple crew planning systems to a single enterprise suite.

  • Added value services on top of a common set of tools and applications.

  • Best practice approach to scheduling personnel.

For full details of the MAPS Maritime Suite please click here.

Having developed the MAPS Maritime Suite based on customers requirements, Allocate Software readily accepts that there are challenges and requirements specific to the different market segments within the maritime industry. As such, the solution has been tailored to three distinct sectors; shipping, offshore engineering and cruise and ferry.

Maritime Customers
With a proven track record as a scalable and robust solution, the MAPS Maritime Suite has been deployed to many large and intermediate maritime organizations worldwide.

For more customer information please click here.