FAQ

The annual subscription includes:

• Cloud infrastructure at Microsoft Azure (webservers, algorithm servers, database servers)
• Right to use BINOCS software for agreed #Binocs FTE
• Unlimited users
• All software upgrades
• Right to use the BINOCS API
• Upgrades to the Excel Add-in that accesses the BINOCS API
• 2nd line support for 2 customer points-of-contacts, next working day response
• Backups (daily full back, hourly incremental backup)
• Access to the software security audit reports upon request
• Unlimited access to the starter track of the BINOCS Academy training platform 

Bluecrux is the company behind BINOCS. We offer the full span of services to make your resource planning and scheduling processes successful and sustainable. Services include:

• Expertise consulting for your business domain
• Business process design
• Training
• Implementation support
• Project/program management
• Software services for integration in your enterprise IT infrastructure
• Change management using our MOUNTK methodology for change agents
• You can use all our templates, training material and communication tools
• Planning-as-a-service: our experts help you with your planning cycle. They evaluate your data and help you to find solution scenarios.

Contact us for a detailed quotation.

Sure. Some users had Excel based solutions before and already knew exactly what their technical requirements were for semi-automated planning and scheduling. In such circumstances, taking the step to implement BINOCS is quite easy but, should you feel that you still need to evolve on the planning maturity scale, we are here to help! We can work out an implementation plan where you play a lead role and we provide you with the support, tools and expertise to make your project team shine. Please contact us so we can show you some examples of where we collaborated with our clients. We can also put you in touch with them so you can exchange ideas and experiences. 

At Bluecrux most of our clients are global players, so we’re used to international projects, with offices in Belgium, US and Ireland. We combine on-site presence with many other collaborative platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom. If, however, you’d prefer to include a local service partner, we’ll happily evaluate that with you. 

BINOCS is a cloud-based, Software as a Service (SaaS) platform hosted in a secure third-party cloud infrastructure provided by Microsoft Azure. We’ll take care of performance, scalability, availability, data management, monitoring and upgrades so you don’t have to. 

Whenever your data is in transit between you and us, everything is encrypted, and sent using HTTPS. User passwords are stored in a fully-encrypted database and all BINOCS data is stored on our secure server. Our software security is regularly audited by an external independent company and our processes are documented and followed-up in an auditable quality system. 

You can easily interface your existing Excel sheets as well as setting up more robust integrations with enterprise applications such as ERP, project software and HR systems using the Binocs JSON API (Application Programming Interface). 

For the IT guys: It’s a REST API which uses user–generated API keys (= Token-Based Authentication). All API requests use SSL.