Fire and Emergency Planning
TestIT was entrusted to ensure that some of business-critical applications used by the UK's largest fire and rescue service were robust and fully functional.
Here is a selection of the applications:
Staff Absence Recording System
This complex application manages all staff sickness, holidays & other absences for London Fire's 7000 employees and provides live management information on all manning issues. It also contains reporting functions such as sickness absences in last quarter & reasons, appliances not in use etc.
Purchasing Ordering System / Purchasing Invoice System
This application is used to place orders both internally and externally for any team / station / department within the authority. The sister application is then used to create and process an invoice for the same order number once approved (approval is via an integrated internal / automated email link to line manager).
Fire Hydrant Tracking and Mapping System
This application includes a link to A to Z and Ordnance Survey functionality and is overlaid with station / command boundaries to map against hydrants etc. It is also used to map current & new street / building layouts and plan best / fastest routes to an incident and for the essential maintenance of Fire Hydrants.
Incident Recording System
The application is used to log emergency & planned work, to dispatch mobile teams to incidents and receive information about the incident closure. It is also used to produce reports / overall figures of all records and sort by date / area etc.
TestIT was able to verify that the applications listed above (plus in excess of 30 or so other miscellaneous applications) provided the expected functionality that is required within the authority's demanding environment. TestIT also used its secure engineering workspace to manage all software assurance activities and comprehensive technical, business and management information.
