[labnetwork] Booking Management System

[Aju Jugessur]

Owain,

I have used Bookitlab when I was setting up the facility at UIowa.
http://bookit-lab.com

I am now considering Stratacore at CU Boulder (subsidized by our Research office)
https://www.stratocore.com

Both platforms are quite powerful and cost-effective compared to other major vendors.

If you need more information on either one of them, we can discuss offline.

Thanks,
Aju



Aju Jugessur Ph.D.
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From: <labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu> on behalf of "Clark O.D." <odc1n08 at soton.ac.uk>
Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 4:30 PM
To: "labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu" <labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu>
Subject: [labnetwork] Booking Management System

Dear all, at the UoS Nanofab we currently use a system called Phoenix to manage our users, tool bookings, and report generation. Unfortunately due to an acquisition of the vendor there is a possibility that support for the software will be dropped soon, leaving us with the issue of whether to adopt development or replace the system. I know some other UK facilities are in a similar situation. Before Pheonix we had an in house solution but this was found to be inadequate in several ways (mostly tied to monitoring and funding).

I would be very interested to know if you use any other management software that could be recommended. At a minimum it must handle user details/training per tool, zoning, tool maintenance settings, user notifications, calendar bookings, budget code tracking, and report generation E.g. tool uptime/utilisation or a breakdown of tool spend per budget code etc.

Best regards, Owain

Facility Manager
Southampton Nanofabrication Centre
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
Hampshire SO17 1BJ

+44 (0) 2380 597389

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