Seamless integration with PMS Ulysses Systems / Task Assistant

Innovation Norway has provided support for Greek software provider Ulysses Systems Hellas and Norway’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions provider VesselMan to develop an integrated Planned Maintenance System and project management tool for technical projects. The joint project is part of the Greece Business Innovation program.

​Ulysses provides an asset management system for day to day technical operations and for the planning / documentation of Technical Maintenance.

VesselMan offers an innovative and popular technical project management and dry-dock application that both Ulysses and Vesselman believe is best of breed.

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Above, you can see a 13 min long video on how the integration is working. The video is a clip from a webinar hosted by Ulysses System, where VesselMan and Ulysses together held a demo. 

VesselMan’s popular, leading edge technical Project Management has been developed in partnership with forward thinking ship-owners and ship managements. As a result client satisfaction is ensured. Full focus on technical project management with dry-docking ensures the trajectory of a product best in its class. 

For the continuity of enterprise software, integration is vital because innovation is vital. The reason is that, in every industry, business branches inherit products, which they need to continue working with. This then means that enterprise software needs innovation and it needs continuity, which is why integration is essential and so is continuous improvement. Only vendors immersed in the industry can deliver solutions that will satisfy industry needs.

- Ulysses Systems

Greece Business Innovation is a program that was established to support access to finance for Greek companies working on projects with partners from the EEA Donor States (Lichtenstein, Iceland and Norway).

Following the financial crisis, access to capital has remained one of the major issues for Greek Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. The Program is co-financed by the EEA Grants, part of the EEA and Norway Grants 2014-2021 funding round, as well as VesselMan and Ulysses Systems Hellas.

The project Connected Maintenance System was officially started June 1, 2020, and was initiated by the CEO of VesselMan, Glenn Edvardsen, and the founder of Ulysses Systems Hellas, Dimitris Lyras. The project aims to increase value creation and sustainable growth in the Greek business sector. Greek shipowners continue to own and operate the largest merchant marine fleet in the world, with the Greek-owned fleet accounting for 7.6 per cent of the world’s fleet in terms of ship numbers, and close to 21 per cent of the world’s ship tonnage.

“We are very pleased and grateful to have been supported by Innovation Norway and Business Innovation Greece. I have always said that if you’re serious about shipping, you need to be in Greece”, said Mr Edvardsen. “This is a great opportunity for VesselMan to build a standard integration module with an interoperable API that can work with any PMS system. This will be of great value to ship owners and superintendents, and will allow for seamless integration of multiple solutions delivering a much better outcome than has been previously available.”

Dimitris Lyras, CEO at Ulysses Systems, said: “Integration is the future of software in all verticals, because no single vendor can please all clients, as proven by the advent of SaaS apps to replace applications in ERP. The world’s software entrepreneurs are not all going to stand still, while a couple of vendors in each vertical market purport to please every member of the client company.”

​“We also feel privileged to be a part of the Business Innovation Greece Program 2014-2021 operated by Innovation Norway. Norwegian entrepreneurs have had an unquenchable appetite for innovation in the marine industry for centuries. An unstoppable force we hope to combine with the Greek tradition of putting common sense first in the marine world. One of these aspects is to embrace the entrepreneurial drive and the future, which is about integration.”