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The following newsletter
outlines the news from the Superstructure Group
AQD team for March/April 2006.
A
very warm welcome to all our new clients - Monarch
Airlines, easyJet and CAA Fiji. Our new
clients have been successfully implementing AQD
within weeks of signing the license agreement
including migrating the data from their existing
system to AQD using a standard conversion routine
developed by AQD Client Services.
Have a look at the News and
Testimonials sections on our website.
Over
the last few months there have been a few changes
in the AQD team. Many of you know that Eddie Rogan
joined the Superstructure team in the middle of
last year. Eddie is now the AQD Business Manager.
A number
of you will have also heard that Sue Glyde has
been out of action for a while due to health
reasons. Although Sue has been working part time, she has found that she is unable to handle the ambitious goal that she set
herself and the pressure of work has continued to affect her health. She has therefore
regretfully tendered her resignation from the business. I am sure you will join
with us in wishing Sue well in the future.
Regan
Smith has the new role of AQD Product Manager
liaising with the Superstructure development team
with a prime focus on the next major release
of AQD - AQD+.
Eddie
and Regan are heavily involved in the AQD+
project, and we believe that their combined skills
and experience along with a superb
technical group, give us a winning team that is
sure to create a winning product!
Cathie McCallum and Adam Rosner are also important members of the AQD team, providing
support and advice to customers.
We
are excited to report that the next major release
of AQD is taking shape. There is currently a team
of developers working on various components for
the new system. Their focus over the last few
months has been almost entirely on the "engine
room" - all the behind the scenes framework
that is needed for the new product. A lot of
R&D work has been done to ensure that we are
selecting the best possible technical solution to
achieve the identified goals. In addition, the
tools for creating the customisable data entry
forms have been completed - in essence,
everything needed to replace the Occurrence
Definition menu in AQD. This is one of the most
complex areas and we're very pleased with the
results.
We are developing a
briefing document that will provide the technical
information your IT people need to assess what
will be required for the deployment of AQD+.
The
next user conference will be held in New Zealand in March 2007.
We appreciate that a number of you were
looking forward to one this year, however, we feel
that it is much more important that the AQD team
remains totally focussed on AQD+ rather than
organising and preparing for a conference; anyway
March is a much nicer time of the year in NZ!
We will, however, ensure that we do
regularly communicate AQD+ progress and other
important news to you via this Newsletter. Plan on
meeting us in Paris in October. | 
