| Our experience is that all members of staff quickly become comfortable
with the system. IrisBG has been carefully designed to
provide the user with an consistent and efficient user interface. A lot of effort has been put into the design of IrisBG
giving customers as much flexibility as possible to alter the behaviour
of the system according to requirements. Ranging from basic changes
such as planting status to more advanced changes like taxonomic
classification or accession numbering policy. In most cases, the system will be installed with preconfigured
settings based on the data migration from your legacy system. We are committed to giving our customers all the necessary support
for a worry free and productive experience of our product. You can
get in touch with us by email, through the user forum and by telephone. Since IrisBG was introduced in 1996, it has been used
by large academic gardens, commercial gardens and large private
estates. During this period the product has been carefully improved
in close collaboration with our customers. The current version is
a comprehensive solution that is likely to cover most, if not all
your requirements. With our mobile solution, you can dramatically reduce the amount
of time spent on recordkeeping. Upload the complete database to
the device, bring it out into the garden and update your accessions
and take photos as you work through your collection in the field.
Synchronize with the desktop system when you are back at the office.
Read more about IrisBG mobile. IrisBG lets you record the location coordinates of all
your garden locations, your individual planting and the locality
of the plant's origin. This information can be presented on maps
from a variety of internet hosted map platforms such as Bing, OpenStreetMap etc.
Read more about Map Viewer module. With the Garden Explorer Module you can make your collection
available to your visitors. Garden Explorer is a way of showcasing
your collection on the internet, and can also be used as a kiosk
solution in your garden.
Read more about the Garden Explorer
module. Sophisticated image handling IrisBG can be used as a main repository for all your high resolution
plant collection images, or you can configure IrisBG to automatically
downscale images to a preferred resolution to improve performance
and conserve disk space. A wide range of image formats are supported.
With the image, the user can rotate, zoom and pan. The image can also be displayed
in full screen mode, and details relating to the image can be recorded. We can offer on-site or off-site training that is adapted to
your particular situation. We have many years of experience in transferring data from a
wide range of databases. In addition to moving all your data from
your legacy system, our data transfer service also includes data
laundry that is carried out by a trained botanist. As part of the
service we will supply our customers with a detailed report of the
data transfer results. We are committed to delivering a solution that is technologically
up-to-date and that covers all the requirements of our customers.
New updates are made available at least twice a year and will typically
include new features and improvements based on feedback from our
customers in addition to technical improvements. IrisBG has full
Unicode
support for data entry and can handle all of the left to right writing
systems that are supported by Microsoft Windows. IrisBG is aiming to provide you with all the necessary
features you would need for your botanical collection management.
If you find that there are features missing, we would be very interested
to hear from you, and would in most cases try to incorporate your
request in an upgrade as part of our regular maintenance plan.
A comprehensive set of reports, labels and data exports is included
in the system with numerous possibilities for selection and sorting.
New reports, labels or data exports can be created by the end
user, based on the standard reports included in the system. The
data exports can be made in various formats or in standard xml-formats
such as Darwin Core. IrisBG can be configured to manage one or many collection
sites (institutions). IrisBG can be configured to manage one or many botanical
collections. You can differentiate user access to each collection
and specify different settings for each collection such as accession
numbering policy, accession numbering format etc. From the start, our objective has been to create a product that
requires the minimum of technical maintenance, unburdened by third
party licence fees. This strategy gives our customers a very cost
effective product. No need to be a software expert We have great respect for the time employees spend at work. Professionals,
such as curators and gardeners, want to focus on their professional
skills and not spend time trying to understand tools that are unnecessarily
complicated and difficult to use. IrisBG has been designed
with great attention to usability and simplicity. Our aim is to
create a technologically stress-free environment in which all employees
in the Botanical Garden will be able to work efficiently. High data quality IrisBGis designed to avoid the need for duplication
of data entry, e.g. when the name of a taxon is changed this will
immediately affect all relevant accessions. The search functionality
is easy to use and flexible, ensuring that all users can find the
information they are looking for. The report and the search facilities
provide the user with an instant and up to date status of the collection. |