| No | | Information | | |
| 1 |  | Overview | | |
| 1.1 | | In March 2002, Estate Systems introduced a bespoke relational database for the telecoms industry called ATLAS to manage and integrate all the operational and financial functions of the business. ATLAS was fully integrated in August 2004. | | |
| 1.2 | | ATLAS is an in-house Project Management and Resource Planning system for all site instructions within the core operations - Acquisition, Planning, Design, Construction and Estate Management. ATLAS is driven by an SQL database, and enables data sharing with other applications including Sage, Oracle and Microsoft Office. It is powered and hosted by UK Datasystems. | |  |
| 2 | | Scope | | |
| 2.1 | | The system is used to manage the following: | | |
| |  | Project milestones - Acquisition, Planning, Design and Construction. Flexible milestones allows the monitoring and control of a wide variety of instructions. | | |
| | | Client sales orders and purchase orders - real time order book and revenue forecast. | | |
| | | Tendering and cost control - Purchase Order expense, Timesheets and Expenses enable real time project and operation profit and loss analysis. | | |
| | | 'Free issue' and purchased equipment tracking. | | |
| | | Customer relationship management with integrated roles throughout the system. | | |
| | | Site estate details and site contacts. | | |
| | | Project and quality control. | | |
| 2.2 | | ATLAS allows an unlimited number of users to maintain information, ensuring that data is up to date and fully integrated. Systems can be hosted online with internet access, or locally hosted on an existing server. | | |