Thank you to all the ESdat Users that completed our inaugural “Customer Opinion Survey”, we received overwhelming positive feedback and some great suggestions on improvements.

We received overwhelming positive feedback and some great suggestions on improvements. We have published a summary of the full results on here and have included a number of the findings and quotes below for your reference:

98.8% of respondents said they would recommend the software to a colleague.

Overwhelmingly, it was voted easy to use, this is what some people said:

·         “Its simple, efficient and easy to learn” Hamish Campbell, ERM

·         “Ease of use, generic/flexible, standard platforms (Access/SQL Server), support” Luke Cameron, Golder Associate's

·         “Quick and easy tables and dataset overview, great QA help” Yvonne Binai, GHD

·         “Ability to pick up guideline exceedences automatically” Belle Casement, Senversa

·         “Good for large volumes of laboratory results”, Tom Madill, Tonkin & Taylor

ESdat saves time:

All respondents save at least 20% of their time analysing data with ESdat. Over 50% of respondents save more than 40%.

Time savings, especially for long-running sites (historical data). Reduction of errors (no transcription)” Amy Smith, Parsons Brinckerhoff

Respondents sighted a broad section of features as important, including:

·         “I like that I don't have to go through the data to find Guidelines exceedances” Ryan Baxter, EBA Engineering

·         “Laboratory reporting formats/QA/QC/TIME SAVING” Cameron Kay, Golder Associates Pty Ltd

·         “Generate chem data and borelogs within minutes. Provides a data base of all lab reports for each job” James Coley, FMG Engineering

·         “Accuracy of data” Tho Tran, OTEK

The main areas indicated for improvement were:

·         More options during export of Chemistry Tables and QA Reports

·         More Chemcodes in the “standard” database.

We are following up these general recommendations and a number of specific comments made in an effort to improve ESdat as we move forward.

The winner of the $100 Myer gift card was James Gavshon of ERM!