Case Study: Start Software achieves web and mobile asbestos tracking and market expansion with Alpha Software

Low-Code Development Enables "Alpha Tracker" to Locate & Manage Asbestos Worldwide

Start Software is an award-winning UK–Australia developer specializing in asbestos consultancy software. Faced with increasing customer demand to move its mature Tracker desktop product to web and mobile, the company needed a development approach that would deliver cross-platform, fast-to-market functionality without rebuilding everything from scratch — so it selected the low-code Alpha Anywhere platform.

Using Alpha Anywhere, Start Software built Alpha Tracker as a web and mobile system that shares the same SQL database with the legacy desktop app, enabling gradual migration and pilot deployments. The low-code approach accelerated development, leveraged developers’ existing skills, and produced rapid feature releases (26 major releases in four years); the result is a class-leading asbestos platform with new clients and markets and more than 1.3 million asbestos items captured worldwide.

Start Software

Robin Bennett

Director and Principal Consultant