Barrett Steel Ltd. takes a lead with Workplains Business Process solution Barrett Steel Ltd. takes Workplains WORK+ as core system for their business processes automation. Leeds, UK (PRWEB) October 11 2003-- Workplains Ltd. today announced the successful implementation of Work+ BPM Suite Version 1.2 for Barrett Steel Ltd. Barrett Steel Limited is one of the UK`s largest independent steel stockholders, carrying over 55,000 tonnes of general steel and special products across their twenty plus sites. Their steel processing facilities include a full cutting service, shotblast and priming, profiling and laser processing facilities. Barrett steel ltd. holds quality assurance approvals to BS EN ISO 9002:1994. With sites across England, good motorway access and a large fleet of vehicles ranging from 3 tonne wagons to articulated units, Barrett Steel is the stockholder to meet construction industries requirements.Barrett Steel Ltd. is now using WORK+ software to automate their operational and production processes through WORK+. Jason Dorsey IT Manager for Barrett Steel Ltd. describes WORK+ as: Within Barrett Steel Buildings we use many different software systems to meet the varying needs of the different departments within the business. Some of these software systems are standard tools used within the structural steel industry and some are bespoke systems which have been developed in-house. Like many companies today we realized that integration was an important issue because it was easy to see that the inability of our systems to communicate was creating significant problems with both accuracy and efficiency around the whole business. It was clear to us that in order to tackle this issue we would need to either develop something ourselves or we would need to buy another system to solve the problem for us. After looking at several workflow/integration packages we chose Work+ as we felt that it offered us a unique best of both worlds solution. Choosing Work+ offered us the ability to immediately create workflow processes, to mirror our existing manual business processes, using the friendly and simple to use development interface. Just as importantly for us we would be able to use Work+ as a development platform, alongside traditional development tools such as Microsoft Visual Basic and COM+, for developing our own future systems. The ability to use Work+ as both an application for quickly creating workflow processes and a development platform make it a very powerful tool. Workplains WORK+ is becoming increasingly popular in construction industry of UK and with inclusion of Barrett Steel as a client Workplains see this trend will only increase. Construction sector is seen to be conservative by many BPM vendors while Workplains is winning new friends. Workplains is also taking initiatives to deliver industry processes for construction industry which will include prototype of Cold Rolled process. About Workplains Limited:Workplains Limited offers a global solution for business process automation. This solution is a key tool for enterprises and government organizations striving for improved customer service; competitive advantage; organizational productivity; and tighter adherence to statutory and other regulatory standards. Typically, customers achieve productivity gains of more than 40%, with reduced costs and enhanced customer service.Workplains have over ten years experience in Workflow and the development of global business solutions with implemented Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relation Management (CRM) and Business to Business (B2B) solutions to all industry sectors. Our customers have achieved substantial business benefits from process and operations improvements. About WORK BPM Suite:Work+ is a web-based enterprise Client/Server application that allows users to easily build, simulate, implement, monitor and measure business processes for many different industries. The application is easy to set up as it does not require any programming, scripting, or macros. The software allows easy integration with existing applications using intelligent Agents and wizards which include ODBC/OLEDB database connectivity and Web Service Agents. The application is easy to use, and anyone with web access can participate in the Workflow process. For further information visit www.workplains.com or email
