Division over a 'common platform: Efforts to produce a common platform for bodyshop management systems have resulted in a division of opinion

摘要

Imagine if you could only use your mobile phone to contact friends who used the same network. Or there was no standard voltage for the UK, so if you moved home you faced the in convenience and expense of buying new electrical appliances that were compatible. The analogies are useful because for years the bodyshop industry has grapple with the problem of insurers using different estimating systems that can only communicate with the same type.