Fleet software in the press
Fleet Week - 2nd March 2005 'Software and safety firm aims to be twice as good'
'Software and safety firm aims to be twice as good'
Jason Francis, former boss of fleet software firm CFC is today launching a rival firm called Jaama that offers fleet software and risk management.
Jaama is named in honour of Francis's old management team at CFC -Jason, Andy, Alex, Martin and Adrian. Francis has already recruited two of that team, Alex Pittortou and Adrian Morris.
The new business aims to be market leader within five years, and has kicked off with two main services. FleetAssistant software offers a wide range of fleet management features, and the Key2 package aims to help transport managers meet health and safety responsibilities.
"There is no one else offering this combination of fleet software and road safety services right now." explained Francis. "We're not a big firm yet. We employ 17 people, and outsource things like finance and accounts. There are seven software developers, three operations people, two marketing and four risk consultants. But in five years time we want to be number one in fleet software, and we want to win the Fleet Excellence Awards. "Jaama will operate in two main areas: software and occupational road safety. We're grabbing the nettle of risk management and using software to do it. And we're not going to talk about 'vapour-ware" we're only going to offer software we've already developed."
FleetAssistant offers:
• Fleet risk management for company and private vehicles.
• Automated event management, tracking, reminders and planning.
• Detailed driver management.
• Driver training and history.
• Licence inspection and endorsement monitoring.
• Accident management.
• Detailed expense management.
• Complete vehicle management.
• Service, maintenance and repair tracking.
• Driver/vehicle allocation history.
"We've set up the business because we feel there is a general lack of investment in technology that can help in fleet and risk management. Software is the glue that sticks everything together. It can be used to monitor accident rates, highlight risk areas and check licences with the DVLA."
Francis believes it is getting harder to manage vehicles. New Government and EU regs combined with managing drivers, suppliers and internal cost control pressures are making the fleet manager's role more difficult.
"It is our aim to bring innovative but practical products to the industry to help stretched fleet managers cope. These products and services certainly achieve that. In the last four months we have installed more than 50 copies of Fleet-Assistant and provided occupational road safety training to more than 100 delegates."
Key2 Risk Management offers:
• 1 day occupational road safety training seminar
• fleet policy and driver handbook sample documents
• risk assessment CD ROM
• fleet 'best practice' consultancy from the industry's leading fleet managers Tristan Young
www.jaama.co.uk
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