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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Owain,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You should consider Badger LMS as an option. Certainly, drop me an email if you’d like a demo. Badger began life as Coral at Stanford in 2000 and that codebase led to the creation of Badger as a commercial application about 7 years ago. Unlike Coral, Badger has been under constant development with new features added regularly. As importantly we’ve upgraded the application internals all along the way which is critical to the long-term reliability of any application. Over the years Badger has evolved into a significantly different app with greater flexibility, dramatically more efficient workflows, browser / mobile microservices that can accommodate most users, real-time status dashboards and a lot more. Badger can be quickly configured and installed turnkey in the AWS Cloud. You can easily schedule equipment and base reservations on a wide range of parameters, including: horizon, time of day, combined devices, a penalty on future reservations for late cancelations and more. Likewise, you can charge in a variety of ways including: use time, reservation time, unused reservation time, cancelled reservation penalties and so on. You can also capture information and charge for services and supplies, training and staff time. Attachments give you the ability to include Excel data, jpg’s or anything else with reservations, equipment problems and historical transactions. Our reports and utilities give you the ability to do fine grained analysis, graphing and dump into native Excel format for further review. You can expire user qualifications based on last use or initial qualification, easily manage project and accounts changes in past and much more. At the same time Badger’s reliability is simply amazing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Badger isn’t free, but you probably don’t want it to be. We have zero VC funding or debt. Unlike a lot of apps, we run Badger the old-fashioned way - we try hard to deliver a product that people will want to use and charge a price that will sustain our business and our families. We’ve managed to start and stay profitable solely based on product revenue and believe this is your best guarantee that we will be here for the foreseeable future. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best of luck in your search.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards, Mike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>mike@badgerlms.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 12/18/2018 05:31 AM, Clark O.D. wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><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 tied to monitoring and funding). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best regards, Owain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Facility Manager<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Southampton Nanofabrication Centre<br>University of Southampton<br>Highfield<br>Southampton <br>Hampshire SO17 1BJ<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>+44 (0) 2380 597389<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=324 height=60 style='width:3.375in;height:.625in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D49785.0ACA9480" alt=Untitled><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>labnetwork mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu">labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmtl.mit.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo.cgi%2Flabnetwork&data=01%7C01%7Codc1n08%40soton.ac.uk%7C16d42a41e5f24341af3808d665c36046%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C1&sdata=USxJXNBpNLWGtj%2BokM0t2P1mmotxLKcKqwlTIQD%2BsYg%3D&reserved=0">https://mtl.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/labnetwork</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>