Recording Transcript:

Greetings and salutations everybody.  My name is Alan Bigger. I would like to talk to you for a few moments about the Breeze Software and my experiences with it over the years. 

Prior to my current assignment as Director of Facilities at Earlham College, I was at the University of Notre Dame for sixteen years.  And during that time we assessed a variety of software to look at and the one that we chose as our primary software was Breeze, because it provided flexibility in multiple areas. 

For instance we used it for tracking information about quality assurance and we literally did tens of thousands of quality assurance a year (inspections of individual rooms).  It helps us track the quality and then compare it against productivity.  It also made...(unclear). 

We also used the training package to keep track of training records and also on the job injuries, which was most useful, because at times when we needed to sit down and work with employees...(unclear), we had a good record. 

The third area where we used it was additional documentation in reference to what we were doing in our organization. 

But Breeze is much more flexible than that.  These are just the components we used.  One of the beauties of it was we were able to integrate it with our existing databases and also with our PDAs, so that we were able to do on-the-fly inspections, which was very helpful...and also help the supervisors not to be tied down to paper. 

Now the last thing that I would like to mention about Breeze is the staff that comes with Breeze.  These are a real pain-in-the-butt.  The staff that comes with Breeze is really what makes the program unique. It is so easy to buy things canned or off the self, but then after that, you don’t have the support.  And Breeze will provide the training, the development and some insight to help you.  And I can tell you that if you dial the 1-800 number, you will find that someone will actually answer the phone and you will we get answers. It is very, very flexible.  And that is probably one of the biggest selling points of the program. 

It is great to have software, but if you don’t have people, it doesn’t work.