Business software. Built from real work.
FMS connects documents, communication and cases. So small and medium-sized businesses can put their knowledge to work – and spend less time searching.
FMS Global connects the work. FMS Network brings it to people.
FMS / 0101 / The system
An inquiry starts with an email. A document arrives as a scan. A deadline appears in a letter. FMS brings these pieces into the context of the work they belong to.
Information from a web form is captured and linked to a case. The responsible person reviews the inquiry and agrees the next steps personally.
An imported document is linked to its source, assignment and processing status. Automated recognition supports the work; professional review remains part of the process.
Illustrative workflows · no customer data
Business value
Product preview · Mobile & Call
Entering, forwarding and searching for the same information repeatedly takes time. FMS Global is built around connected workflows, from the work site to the office.
FMS Mobile and FMS Call are being developed to connect mobile data capture and internal internet calls with these workflows. The aim is less duplicate entry, fewer follow-up questions and information that authorized colleagues can act on sooner when a connection is available.
Where separate software and telephone services are actually replaced, recurring costs may also decrease.
Record information where the work happens, instead of entering it again later.
Bring internal conversations into business workflows.
Work with photos, documents and details in the relevant case.
Product preview · FMS Mobile and FMS Call are in development. A data connection is required; calls to the public telephone network may incur charges.
Our origins · since 1991
FMS has its roots in everyday operations. Holz Fahrzeugtransfer began in 1991 with a student job: cleaning rental cars and transferring vehicles between locations. As assignments, drivers, customers and destinations multiplied, bringing information together reliably became increasingly important.
1991
Holz Fahrzeugtransfer starts operating. The requirements of this vehicle-transfer business later provide the starting point for system development.
1990s
A custom Microsoft Access database organizes the growing records. It also exposes the limits of local storage: customers, dispatchers, drivers and commercial staff need to work with information that belongs together.
From 2002
As internet use expands, local data management gradually becomes a connected working environment. Parts of the emerging FMS system operate on the web within the FMS House and GeT environment from 2002.
2004–2005
Development continues within GeT – Gesellschaft für europaweite Transferfahrten mbH. FMS House is the technical and product-facing identity; FMS Global names the system. Material from 2004–2005 documents links between customers, dispatch, drivers and commercial workflows.
Original documents dated 23 May 2005 describe FMS as a connected online environment. The historical system diagram links Customersection, Distribution, Drive and FMS Online with GPS and position data.
Customers could create, amend and cancel orders online. Track & Trace made it possible to follow their progress.
PDA devices sent status and operational data back to the central system during assignments. GPS navigation and position information supported the mobile workflow.
Digital delivery documents, invoices and expense records were connected to the relevant assignment. Budget information and analysis formed part of that same context.
The linked images are original FMS House/FMS Global material from 2005. They document the historical development stage, rather than a product interface available today.
Web, PDA, GPS and Track & Trace shaped the earlier system. Development today carries that idea forward through FMS Core, Communication, Mobile, Call and Intelligence: information should come together where people work and make decisions.
Work with complex administrative proceedings extended this approach to sources, historical versions and relationships between evidence. Documents from different years, institutions and proceedings need to be connected; new findings and conflicting statements should remain traceable.
Today, the EHF companies in Germany, Sweden and the United States provide practical requirements for further development. The business history starts in 1991; this does not mean that the same software has remained in use unchanged since then. FMS Global is under active development. Mobile and Call remain identified as product previews.
Historical background at EHF Network03 / The network
The brand for the future offering, collaboration and implementation.
The system connecting cases, information and specialist modules.
The business environment in which FMS takes shape.
04 / The next step
FMS is in active development and used within our own business operations. For future external pilots, we welcome conversations with businesses looking to improve a specific workflow.
A publicly bookable standard product and fixed service packages have not yet been released.
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