Studio Box General rosters, scheduling, projecting and time and
Rota Track is a management  tool for reporting, projecting & recording all departmental activities in any industry.
New ‘intelligent’ rota software manages leave & auto assigns staff with links to management systems or Excel. It can even be run centrally by you and/or us.  
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After eight years proving in the most exacting medical environment we are offering a bespoke scheduling system for an off-the-shelf price. Designed for Pub Chains, Fast Food Outlets, Hotels, Supermarkets, etc. It has many of the features of the full Rota Track employee rota an automated system  that performs over a million calculations in planning a rota and rostering, whilst conforming to the EWTD. All of our rota systems deliver time and attendance records & output to Excel.
Users can be set-up according to corporate needs with central control but will be able to customise at branch level. Businesses  can manage all activities and changes for themselves for maximum productivity but should customisation be necessary we are happy to help. Employee planning is eased with a ‘project ahead’ feature as is time and attendance & working time directives.
Diary Driven: At the heart of the system is a powerful diary facilitating away bookings as well as departmental events. Manning levels can be controlled by assigning staff to one or more away groups with minimum levels fixed. A traffic light system advises on the feasibility with reasons. When assigning a rota the diary ‘events’ are taken into account as you would expect with any scheduling. The basic
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version also works as a diary linking to a corporate system.
Rolling Shifts: Users can set-up Resource Manager to handle rostering over one to thirteen weeks reflecting the overlapping and specialist duties & shifts (or On Call scheduling) demanded in this type of work-place.
Stand-alone, Client/server or Browser: Resource Manager is provided as a stand-alone system, Client/server or web based solution. Users can access all data via formats such as SQL, Crystal Reports, ODBC, or Excel to link to other systems. Checking an individuals commitments - the top shows a roster for a weeks duties the bottom shows a weeks duties of the person highlighted in red.
Shown here is a ‘Pub/food’ environment. A manager is available during peak hours & qualified kitchen staff are allocated together with waiters. This example covers a staff roster for 38 staff.
Trials prove RotaTrack efficiencies at £150,000+
Meanwhile, RotaTrack has been utilised at a major Australian Teaching Hospital which successfully trialed the product over a three year period. During this time they were able to project the effects of increasing service provision with and without increases in staffing levels in Anaesthetics. Areas analysed included service, teaching, supervision, & hours worked. This has enabled a controlled migration to a new service profile maintaining the required teaching. It has also ensured huge cost savings in excess of $AU150,000 pa
Database Publishing
Studiobox have written the following database publishing software: EasyBoxes (Autos and Real Estate), Instad (In-store Artwork generation).
Major supermarkets use Instad Our retailing solutions include a Point of Sale System and a Ticketing System used by many leading retailers in the UK. Homebase, Safeway, Sainsbury’s and the Co-op have all bought systems. By checking calculations (discounts) and auto flowing existing data and pictures into templates and auto-formatting productivity is increased.
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For multiple chains we can set up a system centrally, help run it - or even run it for them!
Each outlet fills in a web based diary of absences, which is run-in to appropriate templates.
Click here for a web video demonstration or call for a video CD
For a free ‘demo’ copy e-mail: studio.box@btconnect.com
 An Excel example of the impact of shift pattern recognition, handling the allocation of complex shift patterns fairly and uniformly.  This example handles 12 x 24 hour shifts (32 staff and 21 duties per day). Note the fortnightly averages and details of hours worked. The brown boxes show where an hours limit would exceed working time directives .
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The new Royal Derby Hospital anaesthetic department creates rotas 4 times faster
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Following a move to a faster SQL version of our database engine we were anxious to exploit the enhanced benefits. Taking the new installation at the Royal Derby, we ran RotaTrack up to full speed and left the system to bed-in and provide accurate automation over a number of months before replacing old workarounds to tap into the new features. We were confident that the network provided and maintained by the IT department at Derby (together with a reliable administration set-up) could be relied upon to work with us to speed-up production.
Dr Richard Elliott (Lead Clinician) commented ... “RotaTrack has been considerably enhanced to provide further reports and to provide extra facilities that we were unable to define until the system was initially up and running and we were able to properly appreciate its power and versatility. Every time we have seen and requested further opportunities Studio Box have delivered, enhancing the product for others as well as for ourselves.
The rewrite enabled us to achieve speeds of less than five minutes to assign over 300 sessions in a rota. That includes all fixed sessions including ITU and Obstetric and pain clinics and other outpatient sessions, float sessions and Trainee allocations. Administration staff are freed up for other tasks and RotaTrack ’s extensive record keeping provides a valuable tool. RotaTrack enables reports to be developed showing each anaesthetist their annual work programme as well as individual leave records and trainee supervision and EWTD compliance. An up to the minute rota is now available on our Intranet to all individual users and departments such as the theatre suites. ”
The Royal Derby Hospital is a large new 1000 bed acute hospital with 35 operating theatres. It also accommodates a Graduate Entry Medical School run with the University of Nottingham.
Rapid layout of newspaper Ads: Easy Boxes will lay out ‘Trader style’ ads at speed using its powerful database engine. Any number of elements (text & pictures can be loaded into a defined box and formatted to fit.
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For further information on rotas go to: www.rotatrack.com or call Adrian Goodman on (0118) 946 3336.
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