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Trak Global Transforms Field Service Operations with Solarvista
Sheffield, UK — July 18, 2025 — Trak Global, a leading provider of connected vehicle data, telematics, and security solutions, has announced its...
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Trak Global Transforms Field Service Operations with Solarvista
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How Solarvista’s No-Code/Low-Code Platform Transforms Complex Field Service Operations
Field service operations are inherently complex. Whether it’s managing technicians across regions, handling diverse service types, or adapting to ever-changing compliance requirements, the processes involved are rarely uniform—and often difficult to define in advance. Traditional software development struggles to keep up with this variability. That’s why products like Solarvista field service management system & no-code application platform are changing the game with powerful no-code and low-code capabilities and ERP functions in one.
The Challenge: Diverse, Evolving, and Hard-to-Specify Workflows
Field service organizations often juggle:
- Multiple service types (e.g., installations, inspections, repairs).
- Dynamic scheduling based on technician skills, availability, and geography.
- Real-time asset tracking and inventory management.
- Regulatory compliance that varies by industry and region.
- Customer-specific workflows that require customization.
These processes are not only different from one another—they also evolve rapidly. Trying to capture all requirements upfront in a traditional software project is nearly impossible. That’s where Solarvista’s approach shines.
The Solarvista Advantage: Agility Through No-Code/Low-Code
Solarvista’s platform is purpose-built for field service operations, offering a visual, intuitive environment where users can build, modify, and deploy applications without writing code. Here’s how it helps:
1. Rapid Configuration Without Developers
Solarvista enables operations teams to configure workflows, forms, and business rules using a drag-and-drop interface. This means faster time-to-value and the ability to iterate quickly as needs change.
2. Empowering Field Teams
With Solarvista, non-technical users—like field managers and service leads—can create and adjust processes themselves. This democratizes innovation and ensures solutions are grounded in operational realities.
3. Tailored Workflows for Every Scenario
Whether you're managing solar panel installations, HVAC maintenance, or telecom inspections, Solarvista allows you to create unique workflows for each service type. You can define custom forms, checklists, and logic that adapt dynamically to job parameters.
4. Seamless Integration with Existing Systems
Solarvista integrates with CRMs, ERPs, GPS systems, and IoT devices, enabling real-time data flow and visibility across your operations.
5. Compliance and Reporting Built-In
Need to meet industry-specific regulations or generate audit-ready reports? Solarvista’s platform makes it easy to embed compliance checks and automate documentation—no custom coding required. Embedded dashboarding tools mean data is presented to managers "in-line" with day to day operations.
Real-World Impact: A Utility Company’s Transformation
A UK-based utility company using Solarvista needed to manage a wide range of field activities—from emergency repairs to routine inspections. Each required different workflows, forms, and reporting standards. With Solarvista, they:
- Created tailored job templates for each service type.
- Built dynamic forms that changed based on job context.
- Automated technician scheduling and compliance reporting.
- Reduced reliance on IT and improved operational agility.
The real difference was speed... implemented in just a few days with a 33% improvement in productivity.
Conclusion: A Smarter Way to Manage Field Service
Solarvista’s no-code/low-code platform is more than a tool—it’s a strategic enabler for field service organizations facing complexity and change. By allowing teams to build and adapt processes on the fly, Solarvista empowers businesses to stay agile, compliant, and customer-focused—without the overhead of traditional software development.
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Why Companies Shouldn’t Fear Replacing Legacy Field Service Software in the Age of No-Code Technology
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, clinging to outdated software can be a costly mistake. Yet, many managers hesitate to replace legacy systems, fearing disruption, high costs, and long development cycles. The good news? No-code technology is changing the game—making software modernisation faster, more affordable, and far less risky.
The Legacy Software Trap
Legacy systems often form the backbone of business operations. But over time, they become rigid, expensive to maintain, and incompatible with modern tools. They slow down innovation, frustrate employees, and limit your ability to respond to market changes.
Still, the fear of a complex, months-long software overhaul keeps many leaders from taking action.
Enter No-Code: A New Era of Agility
No-code platforms allow users to build and customise software through visual interfaces—without writing a single line of code. This means:
- Rapid Prototyping and Deployment: No-code tools can reduce development time by up to 90%.
- Lower Costs: Businesses report up to 70% savings in development costs compared to traditional methods.
- Business-Led Innovation: 80% of IT executives say no-code platforms empower non-technical users to build solutions.
- Easy Iteration: Need to tweak a workflow or add a feature? No-code makes it simple and fast.
Customisation Without Complexity
One of the biggest myths about no-code is that it’s only for simple apps. In reality, modern no-code platforms are powerful enough to handle complex business logic, integrate with existing systems, and scale with your organisation.
Managers no longer have to choose between rigid off-the-shelf software and expensive custom development. No-code offers the best of both worlds: tailored solutions with the speed and flexibility your business demands.
Real-World Impact
The numbers speak for themselves:
- 65% of all application development is now done using no-code platforms.
- 84% of enterprises have adopted no-code to enhance agility and drive innovation.
- Citizen developers—non-technical staff using no-code—are up to 4 times more productive than traditional development teams.
- Time-to-market is reduced by an average of 26% with no-code solutions.
These aren’t isolated cases—they’re part of a growing trend that’s reshaping how businesses build and evolve their digital tools.
No-Code For Field Service & Mobile
Solarvista is the world's first '2-in-1' Field Service Systems & No-Code Application Platform. It is designed specifically for field service organisations managing mobile workers.
Whilst generic “no-code” tools let you build apps for any industry they often require you to create complex workflows yourself.
Solarvista is different.
As a field service no-code platform it comes ready with industry specific functionality as built-in features like work order management, job scheduling, service agreements, customer equipment tracking, mobile workforce management, cost & charging and all the tools you need to manage the operations within a busy field service organisation.
Solarvista specialise in reducing set-up time minimises the need for technical expertise and ensures that the solution aligns closely with real-world field service requirements. The end result is that field service organisations can deploy robust, scalable systems faster and with confidence in their processes and ability to change within a competitive and complex market.
Conclusion
Replacing a legacy field service system with a cloud-based no-code platform gives organisations a competitive edge through agility and responsiveness to their clients needs. Instead of being tied to rigid, outdated software and slow development cycles, teams can rapidly adapt processes, build new workflows, and respond to change; all without needing software developers or specialist skills.
"Gone are the days of running a costly project to implement replacement business IT software for field service or mobile operatives. Now we can address requirements in hours, not weeks."
Alan Bailey, Head of New Solutions
Crucially, Solarvista helps organisations escape the hidden costs and compromises that come with legacy systems such as custom workarounds, patchy integrations, and high maintenance overheads, the ‘hidden costs’ of running hardware. With a modern, cloud-based approach, your business benefits from built-in scalability, security, and continuous updates, ensuring long-term sustainability and reduced technical debt. In short, it is a shift from surviving with limitations to thriving with a system that fits the business today and tomorrow.
Don’t let fear hold you back. Keeping old software is a burden on your business. Why not book a demo today of Solarvista's unique '2-in-1' field service management system and no-code application platform?
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Solarvista Achieves Grade A Security Scorecard Rating: A Testament to Robust Cybersecurity in Field Service Software
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Transforming Field Operations: How HTS Group Modernised Environmental Services with Solarvista
Client: HTS Group
Industry: Local Authority Environmental Services
Solution: Solarvista Field Service Management System & No-code Application Platform
Focus: Workforce Mobilisation & Operational Efficiency
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Solarvista Achieves ISO-27001 Standard
In today's digital landscape, data security is paramount, and achieving ISO-27001 certification sets a new benchmark for enterprise-class cloud field service management software providers. It is especially important for business critical applications such as field service management systems or mobile workflow solutions.
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Solarvista Achieves Remarkable 100% Uptime
Solarvista Software Achieves Remarkable 100% Uptime: Setting a New Standard for Reliability
Solarvista Software, a global leader in cutting-edge service management solutions, proudly announces a ground-breaking achievement: maintaining 100% uptime for its platform. This remarkable milestone reinforces Solarvista’s mission to deliver seamless, uninterrupted service, empowering businesses to operate at peak performance without compromise.
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Summer & Winter 24 Updates: so many features, we nicknamed it 'Solarvista 10'!
Our 'Summer 24' and 'Winter 24' Updates for Solarvista cloud product/platform boast the largest number of new features we ever released in a short period. With an abundance of enhancements and advancements, these updates not only match the capabilities of Solarvista's established products, such as Solarvista V8 and Solarvista LIVE/X9, but surpass them by a significant margin. The sheer magnitude of new features and improvements has led us to affectionately dub these updates with the nickname "Solarvista 10", a testament to their nature. While the official product name remains as 'Solarvista', the impact and innovation of these updates are truly deserving of the moniker "Solarvista 10" as a mark of succession from previous versions.
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Empowering Non-Tech Users: Reducing IT Resource Dependency with No-Code Application Builders
Discover the financial advantages of using 'no-code' application builders to reduce IT resource dependency and empower non-tech users in field service.
Topics: Industry Topics
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Solarvista Launches World’s First ‘2-in-1’ Field Service Management System & No-code Application Platform
The UK-based company claims to offer the world’s first solution that offers a hybrid of our-of-box field service application and customisable apps in one.
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When is the 'right time' to invest in modern field service technology?
In this blog article, we discuss how investing in modern field service technology can drive up your efficiencies, maintain customer loyalty, enhance the customer experience and maximise your profits to ensure you stay competitive in today’s market.
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Solarvista Invests in Solar Panels to Make Significant Green Savings
Here at Solarvista in Sheffield we recently invested in some state of the art solar panels and are starting to reap the rewards – a lot more quickly than expected.
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How Does Solarvista Provide Such Great Customer Service?
Here at Solarvista, we understand that customer service is paramount, especially when providing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) within the Field Service and Workforce Management industry, where substantial responsibility lies in the hands of the software vendor. We consider customer service to be just as important as the capability of the product, and that’s why we deliver unparalleled service from the moment your enquiry drops into our inbox, right through to the final stages of implementation and beyond.
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The Top 5 Benefits of Using Service Scheduling Software
There are many benefits to introducing Planning or Scheduling options to your business, for back-office workers, mobile engineers, managers, customers and ultimately shareholders too.
Topics: Industry Topics Knowledge
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Scheduling: Manual, automated or optimising...?
It is important to define what is meant by each of these terms to ensure that you are investing in a solution that is right for your service delivery; you need to be fully aware of what your chosen scheduling system is, and is not, capable of.
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What can you expect from an ISO 9001 Certified Software vendor?
ISO 9001 is a globally recognised standard for quality management across organisations which enables them to demonstrate excellence of a quality management system.
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To schedule or not to schedule in 2023?
For a number of companies, the cost and potential business disruption of implementing a Scheduling Solution is off-putting. Many managers would readily admit that they make do with an existing system already in place, even if it doesn’t completely fulfil the needs of their business.
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How to get the right engineer to the right customer... at the right time!
This is a question that Field Service Managers ask us all the time and there certainly isn’t a simple answer. What is crucial however, is the co-ordination and usage of key data related to field service. Some data is relatively static and some data is quite the opposite ie. it’s live and very, very recent.
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How can field service software create happy customers and repeat business?
Customers always seek good value but in recent surveys, “value for money” is not the first criteria for delivering customer satisfaction. In field service, surveys consistently tell us that “good quality service” is what people most value. This term is a little vague however; what does it mean? And how can software help deliver ‘good customer service’ and ‘happy customers?’
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Managing a field workforce is easy when you have the right tools.
There is one distinct facet about managing a field workforce that fundamentally changes the techniques needed and that is the fact that your resources are disparate, usually on their own and probably out of contact. Add to this, the concept of reactive work schedules and you have a business problem that is far and away one of the greatest to manage and resolve.
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Why customers get such great service with Solarvista software.
Here at Solarvista, we understand that customer service is paramount, especially when providing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) within the Field Service and Workforce Management industry, where substantial responsibility lies in the hands of the software vendor. We consider customer service to be just as important as the capability of the product, and that’s why we deliver unparalleled service from the moment your enquiry drops into our inbox, right through to the final stages of implementation- and beyond.
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J. Murphy & Sons Limited turns to Solarvista.
J. Murphy & Sons Limited was established in 1951 by John Murphy and was initially involved in working on post-war regeneration projects - the focus soon switched to the specialist reconstruction of the country’s electrical infrastructure. Then came road expansion projects, water services and Post Office cable installation. Later, and one of their greatest infrastructure achievements, was the introduction of natural gas pipelines in the UK and Ireland.
Topics: Customer Success
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Thames Valley Controls Switches to Solarvista
Thames Valley Controls has been around since 1971 and is based in Flint, North Wales. Established for over 50 years TVC has become the ‘go to’ solution for the best-in-class lift control and monitoring solutions for businesses all over the UK.
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The Havana Coffee Co finds a solution…
From small beginnings in 1999 as a tiny shop and coffee house, the Havana Coffee Company has become one of the largest commercial coffee companies in the South West region.
Whether it’s equipment, large or small, speciality coffee, or keeping up with new developments, they can help and guide - and they provide direct deliveries throughout the region.
As well as the finest coffees and equipment, The Havana Coffee Co also provide comprehensive barista training courses at their bespoke facility to make sure their customers always get the perfect Flat White or Cappuccino and enabling their staff to get on board with producing outstanding coffee.
“We were struggling with the laborious process of a paper-based ordering system using carbon copy pads, where invoices had to be created manually and then be checked and amended if necessary.
Sometimes paperwork went missing and the whole process took so long!”
“Now we have implemented Solarvista, it’s just a 2-click operation, direct from the engineer to our system – complete with an easily accessible job history. No more storage issues with reems and reems of paperwork, everything’s seamless and automatic.”
“From onboarding to implementation, the whole process of installing Solarvista was simple and seemless and it was refreshing to have a responsive, UK based, Technical Team to sort out any queries we might have had.”
“Now we have implemented Solarvista, it’s just a 2-click operation, direct from the engineer to our system – complete with an easily accessible job history. No more storage issues with reems and reems of paperwork, everything’s seamless and automatic.”
“From onboarding to implementation, the whole process of installing Solarvista was simple and seemless and it was refreshing to have a responsive, UK based, Technical Team to sort out any queries we might have had.”
Topics: Customer Success
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Solarvista platform achieves record reliability uptime of 99.6% over last 12 months.
Business Continuity Management, or BCM, is the process of planning for incidents and issues with your critical systems and is usually carried out by first speculating on potential threats and then analysing what their impact might be on daily operations. It is really a kind of insurance, giving businesses the comfort of knowing that, even in the event of a disaster, the damage will be manageable.