Site Visit Management

Site Visit Data Management System for Land Referencing Services LLP

Types of software

Mobile app
Web application

The customer

Land Referencing Services are based in our home town of Telford, Shropshire, and are the largest dedicated land referencing specialists in the UK. They manage and deliver major transport, regeneration, housing, and infrastructure schemes throughout the UK, including Compulsory Purchase Order, Development Consent Order, and Hybrid Bill projects.

Existing problem: the company’s work requires a substantial number of site visits, and historically data from these had been recorded and analysed using Excel spreadsheets - “with a lot of headaches as a result”!

Seeking a much more reliable and user-friendly solution which would enable real-time data collection and analysis from multiple locations.

Land Referencing Services chose Round Software to undertake their custom software development, noting that we shared “the same vision in terms of development and business ideas” and were “very friendly, dedicated and approachable”.

We held regular meetings with Land Referencing Services to determine prioritised requirements for each phase of the project.

Analysis of the requirements indicated that the project required three tightly-coupled technical elements:

A mobile app to be used 'in the field' to retrieve, verify, and upload data to/from network storage via the internet, in real-time.

A web-based management portal to access:

raw data.
generated reports, quality metrics, and dashboards.
user management/admin features.

An underlying Business Intelligence engine to process large amounts of data into insightful reports and quality metrics, including 'traffic light' indicators.

Software first used for a major project in Scotland, where multiple door-to-door teams simultaneously collected and verified client data at commercial properties.

Successfully enabled teams to perform over 20,000 visits, and analyse the collated data, within a very tight timescale.

Continuing to provide technical support to Land Referencing Services, including monthly database backups.

Also providing ongoing development services as and when they require new functionality.

Land Referencing Services highlighted that our software has enabled them “to deliver projects on time, on budget, and with the quality our clients were expecting from us”. They also noted how the software has brought about efficiencies within their business: “The software has helped us reduce the rework rate, which gives us more time to concentrate on other parts of the business”.

Having worked with us on a substantial project, Land Referencing Services “would recommend Round Software for its technical knowledge, approachability, and dedication”

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