Gang-Nail Systems presents GN Apex at recent user group meeting
Twenty-six Gang-Nail systems customers recently attended the Gang-Nail user group conference in Coventry. Here customers learnt of the development progress of GN Apex, the new software Gang-Nail is developing as a replacement to its existing roof &truss software.
AT THE user group meeting sales and business development director, Jason Ruddle outlined the roadmap for the development of Apex and the existing applications of GN Roof & Truss, Ecojoist and Framing. The emphasis, he explained, was on ensuring customers’ operations remain versatile and flexible in light of the forthcoming standard changes under Eurocode 5 and the ever changing market requirements.
Jason Ruddle emphasised the importance of developing software solutions to ensure customers’ businesses continued to benefit from future-proof design and business management software, in a changing industry where flexibility is one of the most important elements.
GN Apex will provide Gang-Nail’s customers with improved visualisation, flexible parametric
design capabilities, a new 3D structural analysis engine and a single material database for both management and design software. These features are designed to deliver timesavings and improve the efficiency of all software functions.
“Overall users will experience software that is up to ten times faster,” Jason Ruddle explained
at the meeting, “Gang-Nail recognises the importance of future-proofing our customers’
businesses by ensuring their software continues to evolve in line with, and ahead of, industry
changes. Versatility and speed are key to maintaining advantage as cost grows in importance.”
Philip Smith, director of Holbrook Timber Frame, attended the meeting and sees the announcement and direction Gang-Nail is taking as a very positive move. He said: “It is good to see suppliers reacting swiftly to the way the market is moving, keeping software functionality up to date. The most beneficial element of Gang-Nail’s software to our business at this point in time is the 3D viewer tool. We find that this is extremely helpful when showing clients a new roof design, it enables them to physically see the roof and really helps them buy-in to our design expertise. We use it whenever we meet with clients now.”
Likewise Nick Worboys of Pinewood Structures finds the User Group meetings a valuable part of the company’s growing relationship with Gang-Nail: “Because Pinewood Structures is in the early stages of using Gang-Nail Systems’ software we find the User Group meetings valuable. It is useful to meet other companies who have been using the software for sometime and it also gives us the opportunity to see other areas of the software, which we are not be using at the current time.
Because Gang-Nail takes a very collaborative approach to its software development we have
seen improvements made as a result of our own feedback, this means that every development
is a positive one that is valued by Gang-Nail’s users.”
With committed resources and development plan in place, users at the meeting were able to
see how Gang-Nail Systems is developing GN Apex in the coming short to long-term, with the
emphasis on customer collaboration.
For more information on GN Apex visit www. gangnail.co.uk
