Community

Community means two things at FoCul : our local community in the widest sense and the IBM Lotus Community


Our Local Community

Since being formed in 2000 FoCul has regularly contributed to good causes. If you have a cause in mind and are raising money through an event ( preferably one that requires some effort or challenge on your part ) then contact us. You can see a list of our previous donations here.


The IBM Lotus Community

FoCul is proud to be an active member of the Lotus Community. Much of our work has been enabled through the generous sharing of techniques by other IBM Lotus Developers and we believe that it is important that we take the time to share our knowledge too.

  • FoCul supports the UK and Irish Lotus User Groups by delivering sessions and by helping at events where we can.
  • FoCul supports the IBM Developers Wiki by posting articles.
  • FoCul supports the OpenNTF Open Source initiative and will be releasing a copy of our Survey Manager Application to OpenNTF in May.
  • FoCul encourages its developers to blog on technical issues ( some are too shy ! )
  • Testimonials

    ““Working with FoCul has delivered quality and efficiency improvement to our consultancy processes and services, whilst retaining the ability to customise work processes at short notice to meet specific customer needs

    The benefit has been a 30% efficiency saving, allowing ABB to deliver over £12M of studies more competitively since 2002” 
    David Stanier, Principal Consultant, ABB
    The FoCul electronic Invoice Approval System is an excellent example of how processes can be simplified and improved by changing the conventional ways of doing things.
     
    Quality Award Citation, Multinational Chemical Company

    “The Manufacturing Information System has become the back bone of our operational communications.

    The automatic dashboard report sets the mood of the whole site in terms of HSEQ and Production performance and requires no additional effort to collate.
    In our Lean Manufacturing environment, we couldn't function effectively without it !!

    FoCul built in flexibility at the concept design stages that has allowed ongoing modifications to adapt to changing demands with minimal effort."

    Operations Manager, Elementis

    "FoCul's key strength is in understanding our manufacturing environment and translating our needs into solutions that really do reduce costs and improve control."
    Stephen Medlock, Senior Engineer, Lucite International
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