How it started 

Our “F0CUS System” dates back to 1992, when a small utilities company called ARM based in the United Kingdom, carrying out work on behalf of BT recognised the need for a system to control the activity of hundreds of operatives doing thousands of jobs on vast number of assets from a central location. It was identified that to make sure that the right job was done by the right people in the right place at the right time and subsequently ensuring that the correct value of the works was recorded, and payment made without dispute, a system needed to be developed.

This requirement spawned what became known as “WorkManager,” the forerunner of our “F0CUS” system and is still in use today in a number of Tier One contracting companies.

With ARM’s success and continued growth both organically and with acquisitions they became listed on the AIM stock market and renamed Enterprise plc, and at that time were the largest Utilities and Local Authority contractor in the UK.

The F0CUS predecessor enabled Enterprise plc to win work in the Local Authority sectors of StreetWorks, Highways management, Waste, Parks and Gardens and the largest Housing Maintenance contract in the UK for the MOD.

With the experience gained from the above the current Senior Leadership team at TSS who have over some 150 years’ experience of designing, developing, and using software to control WAMS type work, have evolved the system to its current day capabilities.

What makes us different?

What sets F0CUS apart from any other supplier in this marketplace, is F0CUS is a lived experience. F0CUS is a product that has been developed out of “doing the job”, “understanding the issues”, “dealing with the problems” and “handling the pain”. 

We are also different to our peers in so far as our clients can liaise directly with the decision makers within the company, who can resolve any issues as and when they arise.

F0CUS is not a product designed and developed by a software company with an arm’s length relationship to a market, but a product that grew in the UK from a software system created by a small utilities company that grew into a billion-pound turnover company carrying out the majority of its works on large frameworks for the public sector (Local Authorities, MOD, Utility Companies Etc).

The system is constantly being developed to include for innovation and specific client requirements, and therefore making it a market leading solution for forward thinking organisations.