From the team at Northstone Systems, we wish everyone a Merry Christmas. During this time, we will be offering reduced support hours which will take place as follows. Day Open Close Thursday 23rd December 08:30 17:30 Friday 24th December 08:30 12:30 Monday 27th December Closed Closed Tuesday 28th December Closed Closed Wednesday 29th December Read more about Christmas 2021[…]
Over the last couple of months, we’ve been working with a new hosting provider to upgrade our infrastructure for both systems and customer websites. The result of this work is a new hosting platform for our powerful iVech and TyreTec systems, built to our spec which includes a 100% renewable electricity from sun, wind and sea. Having Read more about Migrating to greener infrastructure[…]
Over the past couple of months, we’ve spent some time improving our iVech API and the documentation surrounding this. The main reason for this was knowing our API was being used by an increasing number of third parties, all of whom required new calls and features for their projects. One thing that became clear straight Read more about API Documentation Improvements[…]
2 years ago, we took some time to work on our API offerings related to our iVech Rental Management System. Fast forward two years and we’ve found that the biggest issue is that not all of our customers or their web developers have the expertise to utilise the APIs to their full advantage. Over the Read more about Expanding APIs into Applications[…]
We look at how Northstone Systems have changed business practices over the past months in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Back in March, We started to make preparations towards working from home, as it was clear that the office would likely need to shut soon to aid social distancing across the UK. When the moment Read more about Adjusting working practices to deal with Coronavirus[…]
Over the years, we’ve tried a number of project management tools in the office to help us keep on track and plan ahead for the future. Nothing has really ticked all the boxes until we came across a web application called Asana. Fast forward one year, and the whole team uses Asana on a daily Read more about Project Management – How does it work?[…]
Over the past couple of months we’ve been working on a number of projects for our customers which have all recently gone live. Some of these projects include website development, whilst others were more design focused and a few even included bespoke code development in our iVech system. Creating bespoke systems is something we pride Read more about Latest round of projects go live![…]
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new privacy law which replaces our current Data Protection Act. It applies across all EU countries and will still be in use post-brexit in the UK. Over the past couple of months, you’ll have received a growing number of emails from companies getting you to check Read more about General Data Protection Regulations[…]
This year we attended The Commercial Vehicle Show 2018 at the NEC in Birmingham for the first time. We joined VRS on their stall to promote our iVech Vehicle Rental System to rental, fleet and lease companies. Lead Developer Chris and Company Director Richard attended the 3 day event to promote and raise interest in our Read more about Commercial Vehicle Show 2018[…]
It’s long been our belief at Northstone Systems that we should make our systems as open as possible for our customers. Giving them clear access to their data is of vital importance. That is why during 2017 we set about creating and developing our first RESTful API (Application Programming Interface) for our iVech Rental Management Read more about Developing our first RESTful API[…]