• YiS Corporate Sponsorship
    We are proud to announce that we have now officially become a corporate sponsor of YiS, a fantastic mental health charity focusing on young people in need of support. YiS provide free and confidential counselling for young people aged 11-21 who live,...
  • Living Wage Employer Accreditation
    Ostara are delighted to announce that we now an accredited Living Wage Employer! This means that every member of staff working for Ostara will earn a real Living Wage. The real Living Wage is higher than the government’s minimum, or National Living...
  • YBS Renew Ostara CAFM Software Contract
    Ostara Systems are proud to announce that Yorkshire Building Society have renewed their CAFM Software contract for a further three years. Having originally gone live in late 2015, the Ostara CAFM software is utilised by the YBS Property Helpdesk, as the...
  • The Santander Helpdesk’s First Birthday!
    Ostara are proud to announce that last week saw the first birthday of our Santander Helpdesk! Ostara’s provides a dedicated 24/7 helpdesk offering real time assistance to Santander, using Ostara’s innovative CAFM software and live reporting. The...
  • Safestore Choose The Ostara CAFM System
    Ostara Systems are proud to announce that they have signed a 3 year contract to supply CAFM software to Safestore – the UK’s largest and Europe’s second largest provider of self-storage. Safestore has made the decision to implement Ostara to provide...
  • Santander CAFM System
    Santander signs 5 year contract with Ostara Systems
    Image Via: https://www.moneybright.co.uk Ostara Systems are delighted to be working with Santander UK in a 5-year partnership focused on enhancing their customer’s workplace experience.  Santander continue to evolve their centralised data driven maintenance...
  • Premier Inn CAFM System
    Whitbread renews contract with Ostara
    Ostara Systems are proud to announce that Whitbread have renewed their CAFM software contract with Ostara for a further 3 years, and in addition have signed a contract for a 24/7 maintenance helpdesk. The core purpose of the helpdesk is to assist in the...
  • 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...
  • Everyman cafm system
    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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