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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Software and consulting company Adapt Solutions has designed a Task Management System to meet the needs of local government and private enterprise. The system allows users to create, assign, manage and track all tasks through a single interface in real time while in the office or via the internet. The unique system was designed by Adapt Solutions directors Jamie Burmeister and Nigel Sheed who have more than a decade of experience working in asset management and the software development industry.

Jamie said they had taken an approach that enables their clients to create the environment they need to get the job done and at the same time deliver maximum business benefit. “We saw many programs that were too rigid and couldn’t grow with client needs,” Jamie said. “We knew what local governments and businesses needed to perform more efficiently so we built something that could grow and change as they did.” The Adapt Solutions Task Management system enables the user to:

The Adapt developers have been busy back in the office and we (Nigel and Jamie) have been busy on the road.

We spent time last week in the freezing South Island of New Zealand assisting one of our clients in setting up their contract management system for several new maintenance contracts and associated reporting. This week we have moved to the lower North Island and have spent time working on producing a clients 2008 Utility Asset Valuations. Fortunately, this year we we’re able to place our clients valuation process into a managed environment using a product we recently developed.

The technical guys in our team are great when it comes to understanding and developing software frameworks and to be honest I like it that way, it means I don’t need to get too close to that foreign land that is “framework”. I can stay in the area where my interests and skill sets belong - in the User Interface, the functional design.
However (yip – had to come), getting better at what I do requires at least a general understanding in the workings behind the UI. Plus, we’ve been working with a client recently to review frameworks which has meant I’ve indirectly got involved to a point.

Hi and welcome to the Adapt Solutions blog.

For those of you who don’t know much about us yet, Adapt operates in New Zealand and Australia working in Local Government organisations, Utility companies and Asset Maintenance companies to provide consulting and software development services. We specialise in the asset management arena and have worked with many clients over the years to;