A web application developed to end bickering and confusion over the holiday rota looks set to become a blockbuster seller for 2007.

Senior Internet initially developed its e-days™ holiday and absence management system for its own use after finding that, with an important project in need of completion, several key members of staff had all booked the same week off work. Find out more about the staff holiday planner.

Now worries over the holiday rota are a thing of the past and Senior has sold the e-days system to a range of other businesses, including Seattle-based digital media and software giant Real Networks.

The Nottingham firm has also received serious enquiries from organisations as diverse as the US Navy, Next Plc and Sainsbury’s – and all before any pro-active marketing has taken place other than creating the e-days™ website

www.e-days.co.uk

The e-days system is web-based and handles all the essentials of holiday management. People use it to make holiday requests, which are then passed to their managers for authorisation. Employees can view all their own holiday information, as well as their team members’ calendars, and managers can easily monitor and report on important information about holiday patterns, training days, sickness and absence.

Managing director Pete Senior said: “Until we created e-days, managing the holiday and absence rota using the paper-based system we had in place was a constant irritation. We looked around for a solution but could only find systems that were far more complicated and costly than we required. E-days stands out from the crowd because it is so simple and because it is 100% utilised. It is so intuitive that there is usually little need for extra staff training.

“When we started designing e-days, we never imagined how important it would become to the company. We are expecting big things but, whatever happens, we will carry on using e-days ourselves because sorting out a shambolic holiday rota is one headache I can do without.”