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SDMS e-Academy for Football Clubs

The UKs Leading Football Academy Management System Now Extended to the Web with e-Academy Web Access

SDMS Football Academy and Youth Development for Windows is the UKs first and leading management system to help Administrators, Coaches and Scouts cope with the day to day record keeping about young Football Players while, at the same time, ensuring that best practice and FA requirements on youth development are met. The system is used by several leading Clubs and has now been extended with e-Academy to provide fully integrated Web access.

e-Academy enables players to view their own records, match history and assessments On Line as well as communicate directly with Coaches using the inbuilt messaging system.

e-Academy also allows parents and guardians of players to view assessments,forthcoming matches and also communicate with Coaches and other Academy Staff.

Web access is provided for Coaches so that they can update player details, enter planned fixtures and select teams to play from their age group squads, enter match starting line up, substitutions and discipline as well as recording overall match assessments.

Coaches can also complete termly assessments of young players On Line using the criteria for each position.

Scouts can enter personal and contact details of possible prospects and conduct full scouting assessments On Line – entering Skills assessments and details of both teams in the match.

Academy Administrators can be given access to enter player details, fixtures, match assessments, scouting and player assessments.

The need to share information and develop collaborative ways of working applies to those whose job it is to develop young Football Players as much as in any other organisation. Increasingly, this shows itself in the need to provide access for Football Scouts, Coaches, Physios and Medical Staff to access and update information on the players and prospective players. SDMS e-Academy provides just this.

Information about young players in the commercial Football market is highly valued and access to it controlled by high level security. The fact that e-Academy can be run from the Clubs own servers, as well as the inbuilt security features, helps to secure this.

Designed to deal with specific tasks, e-Academy Web Tools are a simple, low cost and effective way to enable Web access for Scouts and Coaches allowing them to log in to the Clubs secure website from anywhere at any time. Academy administrators can access and update the player and match information via their browsers rather than the SDMS Windows application enabling an unimited number of users without extra licensing costs.

SDMS Ltd has launched a major marketing campaign to invite a wide range of Football organisations to consider the benefits of its highly functional Academy Management System - these include County Football Associations, National bodies in the UK and overseas, as well as Clubs in the English speaking world and beyond.

Links:

SDMS e-Academy for Web Access for Coaches, Scouts, Club Administrators, Players and Parents

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FE Colleges in England: SIR 18

Latest SIR 18 (Staff Individualised Record) Requirements Incorporated into HRPersonnel ahead of Schedule Again!

Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK) has set out the latest changes to the SIR (Staff Individualised Record) for 2009/2010. The Staff Individualised Record provides a workforce profile of full and part time staff of all kinds working in Further Education Colleges. It must be provided by all Colleges annually to support workforce policy and strategy at a National level for the sector. SDMS Ltd has provided facilities to support the SIR since its introduction in the early 1990s by the FEFC. The SIR Module of SDMS HRPersonnel for Windows has now been amended to meet the latest LLUK requirements and is available to customers well ahead of schedule.

The SIR Module of SDMS Ltd’s Personnel software is a fully integrated product and wherever SIR related data is entered, it is automatically presented in the SIR module screens. Missing Data Audits smooth out the often troublesome process of gathering the SIR data. The SIR Module and Updates are standard within the FE Edition and are provided free together with On Line Training in the latest changes.

Links:

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See What Our College Users Say

SDMS HRPersonnel for Windows: FE Edition

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New Version of SDMS Simplex for Small Business

Simplexity: Simple to Use to Deal with Complex Business Tasks

“A finely distilled software product extracting the essential features of our leading staff development and learning management products and making them available and affordable to the smallest Company in the latest Microsoft Technologies - Access 2007” David Stevens, Managing Director.

New Version

This new version of SDMS Simplex meets the needs of businesses, whatever their size, to manage Employee Training and Learning as well as the performance appraisal of staff regardless of role or grade. It combines - Learning Management and Training Administration, Evaluation of Training as well as Appraisal - in a single easy to use system.

Compliance

It thereby provides an essential set of tools for ensuring compliance with both internal and external requirements such as health and safety, supplier contract audit, business liability as well as a wide variety of Professional Standards. This is achieved by bringing together for each employee a single record of their Training and Development, Skills and Appraisals.

CPD and Professional Standards

For businesses such as Solicitors who need to maintain records of Continuous Professional Development against professional standards, Simplex will be particularly attractive.

Free Download Trial and On Line Purchase

And to ensure that the software can be used and installed with the minimum amount of effort by customers with this new version of Simplex, we have introduced a Free Trial Download and On Line Purchase option.

For more information about SDMS Simplex for Business – Click Here

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SDMS V Football Academy and Youth Development

Provides Web Functionality Using the Latest Microsoft Technologies

First developed with Everton FC and now used by several leading (and we mean leading!) Football Clubs for managing their Academy Players or Youth Programmes, SDMS V Football Academy for Windows has now been upgraded to include Web or Intranet Access functionality for its users.

SDMS research indicates that the vast majority of Clubs – whatever their status, size or apparent wealth - do not use systems such as SDMS V Academy because of the Administrative Staff time involved in recording player information. Of course their data is held somewhere – normally in a not particularly useable way or place. SDMS V Football Web Tools are designed to minimise this by providing easy to use web pages for Coaches, Scouts and others to record information they currently have on paper (or in their head), and of course, making it more available to others in the Club at the same time.

Technology:

SDMS V Web Tools are developed with the latest Microsoft technologies of asp.net and Expression Web 2 and enable each Web Access Tool to be easily embedded in the Clubs own Intranet of information portal and amended and tailored.

Functionality and Use:

Simple and easy to use Web Pages allow information about players and fixtures to be entered with immediate data synchronisation with SDMS V Football Academy for Windows acting as the “back office”. All features are controlled by Password and Access Rights as well as standard Firewall and Intranet Security protocols.

My Players:

Keeping basic player records up to date and accurate is now made easier with My Player Web Tool. View, add or amend player information such as Name, Address, Contact Details, Date of Birth, Nationality, Gender, Schools Details and Dates, Guardian and Next of Kin Details, Current Club and FA Registration Information, Qualifications, Skills and Competencies as well as a record of equipment assigned to them and basic Finance Records.

My Fixtures:

Allows Coaches and Administrators to view match and fixture lists for Academy and young players, add new fixtures and record reports on each match. This includes: date, opponents, league, age category, location with notes and comments. The match report includes details of match Referee, half time and full time score, penalties, whether extra time played, result, match attendance with further comments and notes.

My Prospects:

Allows Scouts, Coaches and others to log in through the Customers Intranet portal to record the basic details of young players “of interest” i.e. young players who have been brought to the attention of the Scout as someone who might be worth scouting via more detailed player assessment, inviting for trial, or simply keep in touch with. Initial contact details for the player include: name, surname, address and contact details, whether young player or senior player, age category, equal opportunities related data, current position, date of first contact, name of scout, agent name, full next of kin or guardian details and permissions. And importantly; initial assessment date, assessment and recommendations.

Pricing and Availability:

Whether you are a major club of International renown, play in one of the smaller Leagues or a County Association; SDMS V Football Academy with Web Tools is available in a range of options and editions which you will be able to afford. Click here for further information:

Link to Football Web Page

Link to Portsmouth Case Study

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Hopwood Hall College Uses SDMS Software for Staff Development and CPD

Hopwood Hall College is a UK Government funded Further Education College based on two campuses in Rochdale and Middleton in Lancashire (http://www.hopwood.ac.uk).

Claire McGuire, Assistant Director for Quality, Hopwood Hall College:

“As a College providing a wide range of subjects and courses to members of the local community and business, the training and development of College Staff lies at the heart of our continuing drive to achieve the highest standards.

The College had previously used SDMS Software in its earlier versions and when we decided to review and update our software, looking at the latest offering from SDMS was an obvious choice.

The clear fit between the organisation of Staff Development in the College and what SDMS Software offered, together with its optional modules such as Training Needs and Evaluation, which we were looking to introduce, led us to purchase the latest version.

Recent developments in relation to the Institute for Learning and the response SDMS Ltd has made to this confirms our choice. In collaboration with the College SDMS has now developed a CPD Web Tool which allows staff to record their CPD on the College Staff Intranet with automatic data entry into the SDMS back office. This allows us to have a complete picture of all training and CPD done by Staff and to offer support where information may be required in the future by IfL. This module is now being implemented and the initial response from Staff using it is very positive.”

Hopwood Hall College Website

SDMS V Staff Development and Personnel Solutions for Further Education Colleges

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SDMS Ltd Joins Sage Developer Programme

SDMS Ltd has recently joined the Sage Developer Programme. Now providing a WorkGroup Edition of SDMS V Staff Development and Learning into the SME market we have been asked to integrate SDMS products with SAGE Products.This the SAGE Developer Programme helps us to do. The demand was doublely reinforced by Hospice users of its Personnel and Rostering software.

This Sage Developer Programme allows SDMS to develop integration options for its customers who use Sage and also to provide developer services and add-ons to them.

Sage

Sage (UK) Limited is a subsidiary of The Sage Group Plc, a leading supplier of business software and services to 5.7 million customers worldwide. Its well known range of business software and services includes software to manage business finances, payroll, manage customer and supplier relationships, and support to the HR function. In the UK, it provides software and services to over 760,000 small and medium-sized businesses.

SDMS Ltd Sage Dealership Plans:

Our plans include the development of a range of integration modules and add-ons to support the use of Sage products by SDMS Customers. This will include SAGE Payroll, SAGE Line 50 and ACT.

We have already released an integration module for SDMS V HRPersonnel with SAGE Payroll and SAGE 50 HR Easy Link for SDMS Staff Development Workgroup Edition. SDMS V Recruitment and Selection for Windows is also now offered with an Easy Link Integration for use with SAGE 50 HR. Our next offering will be to provide integration between SAGE Payroll and SDMS Ltd’s latest and perhaps most innovative product for Hospices and Care Homes – SDMS V Rostering and Staff Scheduling.

Focused firmly towards the smaller business by joining the Sage Developer Programme we hope to make sure that SDMS Customers make the best use of their purchased products by high quality developer support and enhancement services.

David Stevens, Managing Director, SDMS Ltd said, “We have found that in the new market sectors we are beginning to work in prospective users of SDMS products asked us to provide integration with Sage products – the logical result of which was to become a Sage Developer!”

About SDMS Ltd

SDMS Ltd is a long established supplier of specialist Staff Development and Personnel products to the Local Government and Education markets and latterly the medium and small businesses market place. It provides a range of specialist editions to LEAs and Children’s Services, Social and Adult Care as well as Further Education.

Useful Links:

Sage (UK) Ltd Website

SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows: Version 5

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An SDMS Programme of User Groups,Seminars and Product Presentations for Learning and Staff Development Managers and Personnel Administrators

Following our successful programme of User Groups and Seminars in 2009 for current and prospective customers we will soon be announcing the 2010 dates for User Groups Meetings and Product Seminars in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland:

User Meetings: