simPRO wins ?rm three new clients straight away Author: Brad Halcrow Story: Andy Beadle When Andy Beadle was appointed managing director of Hampshire-based ?rm Lightning Fire Safety Systems two years ago, the company, which installs and maintains ?re alarms and other electrical safety gear, still used a paper-based management system. The system needed a full-time employee to administer, required 600 pieces of paper to be ?led each month, and was so hard to penetrate it prevented managers from doing the detailed ?nancial analysis needed to boost their pro?ts. Worst of all, it didn’t allow the company to track the service history of the individual ?re alarms at each facility, which was a major turn-o? for the large pubs and clubs it was trying to win business from.The lack of records for spe

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