Your licence and support contract for our software solutions including Allmakes Garage Manager
carry a whole range of data and troubleshooting resources to ensure that you get the latest data
as it is released and any issues are quickly resolved.
About Forest Data Support
We once had a Land Rover independent garage and quickly found that handling more than 500 stock lines meant that we
were often not ordering parts in time for jobs we had booked in. So we searched for a stock control/invoicing program and found
nothing which would cater for the unique market where we had 5 national suppliers and a host of
superseded numbers
going back 50 years !
A fellow Land Rover enthusiast created a simple DOS based program that a couple of other dealers liked so they contributed to
the costs of developing it. But along came the fear of the year 2000 and Win3.1 and so began a learning curve that is never ending.
In 2001 Forest 2000 was born and quickly gained approval with some 60 users by October 2004. During this time one of the national wholesalers commissioned the building of a big brother to Forest 2000 which was called Allmakes Garage Manager.
With the new features of AGM users quickly grew to almost 100 by which time Allmakes had acquired the company - Forest Software leaving us - Forest Data Support with the support portion of the former business. With this lighter work load and being inhibited from working for the UK motor industry for 5 years we pondered what stage IT would reach for small businesses during that time.We have been exploring the development of cloud computing but despite large investment we have concluded that it will be some time yet before the UK infrastructure will be able to support the practical use by anyone other than mainstream locations, therefore the project has be placed on hold for the time being.
We are currently expanding our on line support session into both commercial and private clients at a very low base pricing level which is proving both popular and highly successful.