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<p class="MsoNormal">Owain,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have used Bookitlab when I was setting up the facility at UIowa.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://bookit-lab.com">http://bookit-lab.com</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am now considering Stratacore at CU Boulder (subsidized by our Research office)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.stratocore.com">https://www.stratocore.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Both platforms are quite powerful and cost-effective compared to other major vendors.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you need more information on either one of them, we can discuss offline.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Aju<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Aju Jugessur Ph.D. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director, Colorado Nanofabrication and Characterization Center<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Discovery Learning Center<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">University of Colorado Boulder | </span></b><b><span style="color:#B39C11">College of Engineering & Applied Science</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#1F497D">1111 Engineering Drive – 1B09 DLC <b>|</b> Boulder, CO 80309-0422 <b>|</b> <b>P:</b> 303.735.5019<b>| F:</b> 303.492.2199<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#1F497D">E-mail: aju.jugessur@colorado.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Signature-Strengths: Focus, Activator, Futuristic, Strategic, Achiever<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu> on behalf of "Clark O.D." <odc1n08@soton.ac.uk><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 4:30 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu" <labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[labnetwork] Booking Management System<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards, Owain<o:p></o:p></p>
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University of Southampton<br>
Highfield<br>
Southampton <br>
Hampshire SO17 1BJ</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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