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October 1st 2007 - South Thames Gateway go live with MIS Headway Building Control.
Medway, Swale and Gravesham Councils are setting up a new partnership known as STG (South Thames Gateway) to jointly provide building control services - the first of its kind within Kent.

The South Thames Gateway building control partnership is officially launched on Monday, 1 October 2007.

The Partnership will ensure that existing and new structures conform to the building regulations to protect the safety, health and welfare of everyone involved. The service will be marketed to commercial developers, house builders and the development industry as a whole.

An improved and more cost effective building control service will result from this that will combine the cost effectiveness and flexibility of the private sector with the local knowledge, professionalism and service quality of the public sector.

Cllr Jane Chitty, Medway Council's Portfolio Holder for Strategic Development and Economic Growth, said: "The event will mark a new dawn in the delivery of building control services across Gravesham, Medway and Swale maintaining the quality of service through professionalism, reliability and local knowledge and having the resources to meet increased customer expectation and the increased demands of an expanding market."

August 14th 2007
Plymouth City Council have gone live with Headway Land Charges
The Council will be taking advantage of the NLIS Level 3 capability of the software, GGP integration and a link into the GGP NLPG.

August 10th 2007
Halton Borough Council have gone live with Headway Land Charges
The Council will be taking advantage of the NLIS Level 3 capability of the software.

July 23rd 2007
Tandridge District Council have gone live with Headway Land Charges.
As an existing user of MIS software, Tandridge DC have chosen to re new with MIS and take full advantage of the softwares capability.

June 1st 2007
East Devon District Council have gone live with Headway Land Charges
The Council will be taking advantage of the NLIS Level 3 capability of the software as well as the advantages of ESRI GIS integration and the SQL backend to the system. MIS are happy to have retained EDDC as a customer after a good working relationship for a number of years, and have successfully completed this upgrade in a matter of weeks, in time for the new CON 29 changes.

May 31st 2007
Walsall Development Control Department are now the third department at the council to be successfully using the Headway product.
The product provides full remote access to all digitised records and information, and the interactive section of the system will provide a fully interactive internet service for their customers 24/7.

April 30th 2007
Walsall have now begun to use MIS Land Charges. MIS are happy to have successfully upgraded the existing sotware in the short period of 4 weeks.

April 23rd 2007
Eastleigh Borough Council have now begun to use MIS Land Charges.
After undergoing a strict procurement process MIS were chosen as the supplier for Eastleigh Land Charges.

March 23rd 2007
Walsall Building Control Department are now successfully using the Headway product in a full mobile environment.
Mark Skidmore Building Control Manager Walsall MBC comments, “Walsall Building Control service has now successfully upgraded to MIS Headway BC. The product provides full remote access to all our digitised records and information, and the further implementation of MIS Headway Interactive will provide a fully interactive internet service for our customers.”

February 26th 2007
MIS LGS now provide an online forum/user group facility for its customers.
The facility allows registered customers to post topics and discuss any related items they choose with other users via the MIS web site.

Its completely hosted and maintained by MIS LGS so all email addresses and other information is private and protected.

February 24th 2007
MIS LGS have launced a customer service survey, to make sure that we are meeting our customers expectations for support and software provision.

With the positive feedback that we have had across the board for our Headway products, we are keen to keep customer service at a constant high standard.

January 11th 2007
MIS and Walsall who have previously agreed to be development partners on the 1APP project are hoping to begin using the new 1App system within the next few months.
MIS hope to build upon the current Planning Portal Interface to allow The Council to begin using the system ASAP.

January 2nd 2007
MIS are pleased and proud to announce that we have won a new contract to supply Eastleigh Borough Council with the Headway Land Charges system. Eastleigh will also be using the HLC links into their GGP GIS and at a later stage will begin using the NLIS level 3 Interface.

MIS also hope to send Gosport, North Cornwall DC live onto modules of the headway

December 20th 2006
Staffordshire Moorlands DC and Staffordshire County are now live using a Con29 XML interface developed between MIS and Staffordshire County. The Interface uses the GovTalk Con29 Schema to transfer Con29 requests and replies between the two Councils. Staffordshire Moorlands have been successfully running MIS Headway Land Charges for some months now and incorporating MIS LGS products into the Council’s systems has assisted them to improve performance and take forward its drive for greater efficiency of output.

Sue Barlow (Land Charges Manager) say’s ”MIS Local Government Systems Ltd. were very professional and delivered the product in line with our strict timetable and on budget."

Head of Customer Service Peter Dunkley comments, "The experience of working with MIS LGS has been very positive, and the early results from the use of "HLC" are very encouraging."

November 24th 2006
Swale BC have decided to move to the Headway Planning and Building Control Systems.

Managing Director Marc Booth Comments,

"Swale BC have been a long term customer of MIS and we are very pleased that they have chosen to renew with us. As with all our customers, we will continue to provide high quality services which we hope will make us the first choice for any of our existing customers when contracts are coming up for renewal."

November 22nd 2006
MIS can now offer customers full mobile, 'real time' access to the Headway suite of products. MIS have tested the Headway suite of products using 3G cards and VPN connections to customer sites. David Pye, Technical Director, comments,

"We are really pleased with the initial results and with improvements in Wireless Internet technology that are likely to occur over the next couple of years means that our customers can only benefit from taking advantage of these facilities now.

MIS firmly believe that for an application to be truly mobile, it should be accessible in its entirety to users."

October 11th 2006
Walsall MBC have now gone live with the new Headway Building Control Product. Walsall, who previously used the MIS Plus6 Building Control System, will be taking advantage of the the mobile working options and integration with MapInfo GIS.

September 6th 2006
Carmarthenshire CC are set to move to the new Headway Building Control Product. Carmarthenshire CC, who currently use the MIS Plus6 Building Control System, will be able to take advantage of the increase performance of the new SQL Server based product, which has mobile working options and integration with GIS. In addition the user friendly interface which takes a 'nothing hidden' approach, helps to make life easier for the system users.

August 29th 2006
Plymouth City Council have chosen to upgrade their existing system to Headway Land Charges
The Council will be taking advantage of the NLIS Level 3 capability of the software as well as the advantages of GIS and the SQL backend to the system.

August 29th 2006
Walsall MBC Who have recently chosen to upgrade to the new MIS Headway suite of products, are set to go live on the building control system in October 2006. MIS have on average been able to implement modules of the new Headway suite in an 8 week turnaround.

August 17th 2006
Tandridge DC who have purchased the Headway Mobile Working Solution for Building Control are now ready to implement the software into their working practices. MIS and Tandridge DC will be working closely together to implement the solution before the end of the year.

July 20th 2006
The Borough of Telford & Wrekin has been named “Best Achieving Council of the Year” in the Annual Local Government Awards, sponsored by the Municipal Journal.

http://www.municipalyearbook.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=506

MIS Local Government Systems are extremely pleased to have recently been selected to supply Planning and Building Control solutions to Telford & Wrekin.

After a careful and very in depth selection process from the major suppliers of local authority software, MIS Local Government Systems were identified as the best solution provider to allow the Council to maintain its current high standards and achieve its future goals in these departments.

July 10th 2006
MIS Local Government Systems are now building and expanding upon the interactive web based system (eAccess), which we are delighted to inform you, received full 21 points in the Pendleton survey for all customers who purchased this package

The standard eAccess package offers a fully integrated e-Planning and Building Control solution that allows our customers to meet all 21 Pendleton criteria. The interactive system also allows customers to implement P.A.R.S.O.L standards, either using our systems or third party systems, communicating via XML

June 19th 2006
MIS Local Government Systems have now become a member of the ESRI Developer Network.
The benefits of this to MIS will include providing our developers with tools that increase productivity and maximise GIS development on the ArcGIS platform.

June 1st 2006

Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft.

We are extremely pleased to announce that at the end of May 2006, MIS achieved the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner accreditation, specialising in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions & Information Worker Solutions.

To achieve and maintain this highest level of Microsoft Partner Certification we have to employ a number of qualified Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs), System Engineers (MCSEs) and Database Specialists (MCDBAs), whilst at the same time demonstrate via customer references our in-depth understanding and high degree of technical expertise in planning, delivering and supporting scalable enterprise solutions.

As a Gold Partner it shows our commitment to excellence and enables us to work more closely with our customers, providing the highest levels of technical consultancy, implementation and support.

June 1st 2006
Staffordshire Moorlands DC go live with Headway Land Charges Nlis Level 3 interface.
The Council is now using the NLIS Level 3 capability of the Land Charges software which is included as a standard feature in the Headway package.

May 23rd 2006
Wyre Forest DC go live with the MIS Nlis Level 3 interface.
The Council will now be utilising the NLIS Level 3 capability to send and receive electronic searches to its customers

April 26th 2006
Gosport Borough Council have chosen to upgrade their existing system to Headway Land Charges
The Council will be taking advantage of the NLIS Level 3 capability of the software as well as the advantages of an SQL backend to the system.

April 10th 2006
MIS are currently developing an interface to work with the 1App scheme
You can read more about 1App here

March 17th 2006
Staffordshire Moorlands DC go live with Headway Land Charges.
The Council will also be utilising the NLIS Level 3 capability of the Land Charges software which is included as standard

February 7th 2006
The results from the December 2005 Pendleton Planning Website Survey are now available, and MIS have been able to celebrate as all our customers who purchased Eaccess, the MIS solution to meet all the pendleton criteria, achieved full 21 points. MIS were also very pleased to see that Carmarthenshire who use Eaccess, were the only Council in Wales to get the full 21 points.

February 4th 2006
The MIS mobile working solution for the Headway Building Control solution has been warmly welcomed by our customers. The mobile software that runs on Laptop and Tablet PCs is set to achieve massive savings to Building Control departments throughout our customer base.
The mobile solution can even run on PDA if required

January 9th 2006
Tandridge DC go live with the Headway Building Control System.
Work is also in progress linking MIS systems into the ESRI Mapping system

December 19th 2005
Vale Royal BC go live with Headway Land Charges.
The system includes a link into the ESRI NLPG Gazetteer using the Caps Solutions GMS Connector

December 1, 2005
Walsall MBC go live with Planning Interactive.
After working closely with Walsall, MIS have provided a solution that is expected to meet the 21 points of the Pendleton Criteria. The Eaccess solution has integration with the PlanWeb internet based mapping solution.

November 21, 2005
Tandridge DC set to go live with HeadWay Building Control.

November 1, 2005
Tandridge DC go live with Planning Interactive.
After working closely with TDC, MIS have provided a solution that Tandridge expect to meet the 21 points of the Pendleton Criteria, and inevitably also achieve PARSOL Requirement.

A user commented:
"I have taken a tour of the new website and I find it excellent. It is easy to use and easy to find the way around and is a very valuable information source. It exceeds all my best expectations.
Your website will be very useful for us as well as for all residents of our parish. It will surely help with enforcement and monitoring progress.
Congratulations to your staff and all those that put this together."

October 1, 2005
New Directors have been appointed at MIS LGS.
Marc Booth and David Pye have both served the company for over 5 years and helped to progress and build the company.

Marc Booth has now been appointed to the position of Managing Director.
Marc has over 12 years experience in local government and this experience will allow further development of the company

Marc comments, "The promotion will help me to concentrate on our customers needs and help us continue to deliver our solutions both in the present and future, allowing MIS to reach new levels"

David Pye has now been appointed to the position of Development Director.
David has over 10 years experience in the I.T. field, and his broad subject knowledge has been a great benefit to the company.

David Comments, "I'm really pleased about the promotion. Both myself and Marc have extensive plans for MIS that will enable us to continue to provide cutting edge solutions for all our customers."