UIC Systems, which was part of the Universal Improvement Company, based at Belper, Derbyshire—supplier for the past six years of Bugle, the performance management system used by all of Britain’s train operating companies—has been sold to Manchester-based software specialist Datasys.

Richard Capper, head of UIC, explained: "A key objective for me in the sale process has been to maintain business as usual for Bugle users. They should see absolutely no difference in the service they receive as a result of the sale. The sale of Bugle will enable the UIC to focus exclusively on our other new and existing systems."

Bugle is a performance management system used by TOCs, and Datasys helped in its development in a joint project with UIC. It analyses and reports delays and cancellations to train services, enabling the identification and and prioritisation of areas for improvement.

Bugle reads in train running, delay and incident information from existing mainframe computer systems. In addition it handles a reread of this data to pick up any changes that have taken place since the data was first received. This saves a huge amount of data editing by TOC performance staff.

The system is now supplied, supported and developed exclusively by Datasys. Jon Machin, formerly with UIC, has also moved to Datasys.

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