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content and complete reporting requirements even in an off-line environment. Daily automatic synchronisation will ensure vessel data and shore data will never be more than 24 hours different.
a full understanding of the compliance requirements for both small and large yachts. They should always be adapting to new operational conditions, such as vaccination lists and compliance requirements. If they don’t know what you do onboard, they can’t build software to help you do it.
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operation, such as ISM management companies, employment companies, payroll facilities, the family office, contractors and shipyards. Software should be designed to collaborate seamlessly with all shore-based support and be permissions-based so that modules are only available to those who require access. It should reduce the need to send information back and forth manually and dramatically reduce the captain’s and purser’s workloads.
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Ease of use and smart analytics Software should be smart enough to display data where you need it when you need it, without having to input the
same information multiple times—“data flow, not data entry”. Two examples would be automatic coordination between the In/Out Board and the Muster Station Bill, and safety tasks that automatically populate the Safety Meeting Agenda. Also, look for software that provides daily and monthly dashboards that consolidate data into easy-to-understand graphs and tables.
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Value for all departments Good vessel management software should provide practical solutions to assist all departments, not just the bridge and engineering. Let’s face it: owners don’t buy yachts because they want to comply with regulations or maintain engines. They buy yachts for the privacy and 7-star experience a yacht can provide. To the owner, the most important aspect is the hotel side: Service, housekeeping, galley and laundry. If your vessel management software is missing solutions for these departments, they’re missing the reason why a yacht exists.
Fleet management Many yachts today are part of a fleet, whether a single owner’s fleet or that of a large management company. It’s vitally important that vessel management software can connect to a fleet management system so that all onboard reporting can be consolidated into one system. This not only enables fleet managers and DPAs to easily compare incidents and accidents for similarities across their entire fleet, it also allows the safety management manual to be updated and distributed with the click of a few buttons. Managing notices and circulars, office audits and crew compliance is also easy when the software does all the heavy lifting.
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Training and online support Good vessel management software should have two- to three-minute training videos on each module, and onscreen
help messages should be built-in and immediately available at your fingertips.
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Connection to the real world In the real world, yachts are connected with many external entities that provide services to assist in smooth and efficient
Keeps up with operational conditions A good vessel management software company should have firsthand experience with day-to-day operations and
Software should be smart enough to display data where
you need it when you need it, without having to input the same information multiple times.
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Purpose-built Although applications like Drop Box, Google Docs, Laserfiche and even AMOS are great tools, they were
never designed for the yachting industry. If you’ve been in yachting for any length of time, you know we are an industry like no other. As with anything in life, if you try and adapt something that was not built for purpose, you will have a harder time than using something that is designed by yachting veterans specifically for the task at hand.
You won’t see the daily Watchkeeping Schedule displayed directly on the crew phones via the Hours of Rest App, automated Leave Tracking (which factors in all the rotational variations) or an iPad App that maintains the Visitors Log for ISPS compliance on a platform not designed and built specifically for superyachts.
So when you are looking for your next or even first vessel management software package, make sure to choose one built specifically for the yachting industry, not one adapted and cobbled together from another industry. Our industry is specific and this needs a dedicated and fit for purpose system that will deliver on all 10 of the above points. Fair winds and following seas.
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