CrewBuddy

A Comprehensive Crew Management Solution

CrewBuddy is a leading edge solution that brings the convenience of managing crew information to the mobile and web platforms.

Manage

CrewBuddy empowers staff to manage their own roster and gain better control over swapping roster allocated activities.

Publish

CrewBuddy allows the enterprise to send ad-hoc notifications to crew, notifying them of important events or roster changes. Rosters can also be pushed to members of crew.

Social Networking

Social networking within the application fosters a greater sense of connectivity between members of crew, allowing them to view the rosters of their fellow crew members.

Identity

CrewBuddy allows crew to establish a sense of identity through the ownership of a profile with user defined privacy settings.

A Greater Sense of Fairness

CrewBuddy enables crew to swap work with others at any time via an automated legal swap market. All proposed swaps are checked against a central rule base in real time to ensure legality.

Lifestyle

Different users with different lifestyles are all suited to with this one fit solution. Members of crew gain more control over what duties are placed in their roster via the provision of a wishlist.

Wishlist

The Swap Wishlist permits users to keep an updated list of ports and locations to which they wish to travel. This data is then able to be used to assist in the roster planning phase of subsequent months.

Statistics

CrewBuddy also allows users to access roster statistics over set periods, allowing them to keep track of their duty time, block hours or any other metrics.

CrewBuddy Web Portal

Our online web portal allows crew to manage their account as they would on their mobile device. Additional services are also provided by the website such as the ability to access further details of fellow crew members and friends.

Ease of Use

The portal allows users to complete processes quicker and easier than they would be when performed via the mobile app. Larger screen real estate allows users to see more in-depth information when viewing their rosters and swaps online.

Administrator Portal

In addition to this, an online administrators portal allows the enterprise to track their employee’s usage of the app, and easily push custom notifications. New users and devices can be added to the CrewBuddy network from the one portal. Roles can be created and users can be assigned different roles. It is also possible to switch off access to a device in the light of a security breach.

Integrate

CrewBuddy is designed to be easily integrated into an enterprise’s existing I.T. infrastructure. Data can be loaded either through the processing of messages in an event queue or as a batch extract using XML. CrewBuddy stores its data using Constraint Technology’s Network Data Broker (NDB) technology. NDB is a super reliable multi-node data store that is capable of persisting data even with the loss of 49% of its nodes. All roster change requests are issued as a Change Message which are then loaded into the enterprise’s existing Crew DB using messaging, web services or secure sockets.

Access & Scale

CrewBuddy is a hosted solution. A client will make a secure connection to one of our data centres in either Australia or the U.K. Should that data center deny service to the client, the client is configured to connect to the other data center. The same CrewBuddy server processes requests from both mobile clients as well as web browsers. The CrewBuddy network is configured to download a certificate to each device that is based on its hardware I.D. This ensures that only registered devices can be used. Should a device be lost or stolen its certificate can be revoked immediately. All roster changes are evaluated for legality using separate rules servers that can operate in parallel to allow for scale.

Devices

• All iOS Devices
• All Android Devices
• Desktop PC via Online Web Portal

Screenshots

CrewBuddy Mobile

CrewBuddy Web Portal