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Firebird Database Update

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:18:09 +0000

Our products have been updated to work with a newer version of the Firebird Database. See the details here.

Firebird Database Server Installation

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:47:25 +0000

Here is a quick 4 minute video which shows the process of installing Firebird Database Server for use with our multi-user products.

New Vehicle Manager User Guide

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:55:48 +0000

A new Vehicle Manager User Guide is now available for online browsing or download/print:

New Asset Manager User Guide

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:20:54 +0000

A new Asset Manager User Guide is now available for online browsing or download/print:

New Training Manager User Guide

admin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:00:20 +0000

A new User Guide for Training Manager is now available for online browsing or download:

Training Requirements – Enhancement

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:43:10 +0000

As most of you know, Training Manager allows you to configure required training for your personnel. In previous versions of Training Manager, these requirements were enforced “Immediately” meaning that as soon as you added a new employee to the database and assigned them to one of the Groups or Job Roles with assignments, they would immediately show up as “Overdue” on the status reports unless they had completed the training already.

Many of you contacted us and requested an option to define a “grace period” for new hires in order to give them a reasonable amount of time to complete the training before it would appear “Overdue” on the status reports. I’m happy to announce that this option is now available in the current version of Training Manager.

Now you may set the “Initial Training Due Date” when adding an Assignment as shown in this example:

: New Assignment Form

As you can see, the initial training is due “By Hire Date + 30 Days”. The training status for the first 30 days will no longer appear as “Overdue”. Instead, it will appear as “Untrained” if it hasn’t been completed during the first 30 days. This lets you know that the training is required, but it is still within the grace period. The status will change to “Overdue” if it hasn’t been completed after 30 days, otherwise, it will change to “Up to date” after it has been completed.

We hope this feature will help to make the status reports more useful for your organization. Thanks to everyone who provided the feedback leading up to this enhancement.

Website Fail-Over In Place

admin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:07:31 +0000

The kzsoftware.com website was down for 3 hours last week due to a power outage at the data center hosting the site. A redundant server has been configured at an alternate datacenter in another state with automatic fail-over to prevent this problem from occuring again.

Faster Downloads

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:12:05 +0000

We have just finished moving our software downloads to Amazon’s CloudFront distribution network. This change will allow our customers around the world to download the software from the server closest to their location (*See below). Website visitors may click the download link, and the software will be automatically downloaded from the closest server.

We hope this will improve the download experience by improving the reliability of the downloads and making it much faster to download the software.

*Download servers are located in 14 Cities across 3 Continents:

United States

Ashburn, VA
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
Los Angeles, CA
Miami, FL
Newark, NJ
Palo Alto, CA
Seattle, WA
St. Louis, MO

Europe

Amsterdam
Dublin
Frankfurt
London

Asia

Hong Kong
Tokyo

An Introduction to Training Manager

admin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:20:11 +0000

Updates in January 2009

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:44:25 +0000

Several updates have been released this month for Asset Manager, Training Manager, and Vehicle Manager. Link to the details on the Product Updates page.