• Ostara Systems Gains FSQS approval again!
    Ostara Systems is proud to announce that for the second year in succession, it has successfully satisfied all of the requirements to become fully FSQS certified. As the regulated environment becomes more complex, FSQS provides a standard and simple mechanism...
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    Ostara Welcomes New Client Everyman Cinemas
    Ostara Systems is proud to welcome Everyman Cinemas as a new client. Everyman Cinemas is an independent network of boutique cinemas. It is one of the fastest growing independent networks in the UK and will be expanding into numerous new sites over the...
  • Hawthorn Asset Management System
    Hawthorn Leisure renews for two years
    Ostara Systems is proud to announce that Hawthorn Leisure has renewed its CAFM Software contract for a further two years. Hawthorn Leisure is a young, vibrant pub company operating over 300 interesting and diverse pubs across the UK, from traditional...
  • Premier Inn CAFM System
    Whitbread plc choose the Ostara CAFM system
    Whitbread has chosen the Ostara CAFM software to manage the maintenance of their Premier Inn and Restaurant Estate. Whitbread were looking for a system that could provide efficient processes to manage both the quality and cost of the FM and maintenance...
  • Yorkshire Building Society chooses Ostara
    Yorkshire Building Society chooses Ostara as its CAFM/Property Database software provider. July 2016 Yorkshire Building Society Group has chosen the Ostara CAFM system to manage the maintenance of its estate. In addition to being rolled out across the...
  • Managing Risk within FM
    Many of you will have noticed lately that you are having more and more interaction with those involved with managing risk in your business. Some businesses even have a CRO (Chief Risk Officer) – basically an executive responsible for identifying, analysing...
  • Ostara Insight is launched
    Ostara Insight Real-Time Reporting The newly launched, powerful, integrated reporting module is based on the philosophy that we need to simplify what is often complex data and make it useful. The proverb, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ could...
  • Ostara Supports Hawthorn Leisure
    Hawthorn Leisure, has chosen the Ostara CAFM system to facilitate the management of the maintenance of its estate. Hawthorn Leisure currently has approximately 360 pubs in its portfolio.
  • Ostara supports all models of FM Delivery
    There are a number of FM models that exist for managing the FM of multiple sites. To determine the model which best suits your organisation, you will first need to identify both the expertise and the constraints within your business. This should identify...
  • Implementing a New Maintenance System
    The Ostara CAFM system has been developed by FM professionals who are only too aware of how complicated and expensive the implementation of a CAFM system can be. With this in mind one of Ostara’s goals was to design a system with processes which simplified...
  • New Ofcom rules
    This is to let you know that Ofcom, the communications regulator, is introducing a new initiative called UK Calling. It is designed to help make it easier to understand how much it costs per call to call 08, 09 and 118 telephone numbers (also known as...
  • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? Don’t Panic!
    If you are tasked with responsibility for sustainability and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) within your current FM function help is at hand… Due to the trend towards an increasing number of Facilities Managers now being wholly or partly responsible...

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