Professional Pest Manager Magazine October November 2010 – New Technology Drives Efficiency

Australia’s benchmark developer and distributor of integrated business management software solutions for Australian pest managers, Temisoft, appear set to create an information management revolution which will be
good news for pest managers, and the environment.

Thousands of trees may be spared from being felled for paper. Millions of litres of petrol may avoid being burnt on unnecessary journeys back to base. And countless hours of pest management technicians’ time will be devoted to productive work rather than to returning to base to catch up on the paperwork.

Long time pest manager and now rodent bait station designer, Ted Herbert, reckons a major problem with conventional rodent programs is time, or more correctly the lack of it.

“Too few pest management companies allow their technicians sufficient time to thoughtfully and carefully place bait stations and traps;· Ted said. Ted Herbert ”.And then, even worse, too little time and effort is devoted to carefully checking stations, monitoring which baits and how much bait has been taken from which stations, in different locations, and reporting back with meaningful, analysable results of value both to the company and its customers,” he said. In large part, rodent management time poverty is caused by technicians using outmoded, manual and hard copy based data collection and reporting