An overview of how Levima came to be the product it is today, the company history and a run through of the product.
Levima is a web based software designed to streamline the workflow associated with administering business travel while crucially preventing ’rogue travellers’ without restricting the traveller in their travel planning. Additional in trip tools aid and simplify the workload for the traveller.
2. Who is Levima?
Levima is a collaborative venture between two Edinburgh based companies.
CEO: Paul Edmunds CEO: James Hanlon
An independent GIS consultancy Mobile Healthcare Networks
Established: 2006 Established : 2007
Paul has 10 years experience in the GIS industry MHN sought to develop a low cost, mobile telemetry
having product developed for Wood Mackenzie and system to improve clinical data management. Due
ERM while providing support for giants such as BP, to cuts in healthcare R&D, MHN has branched to
Maersk, Defra and Scottish & Southern Energy in support start up companies using the company’s rich
their project throughout the world. technical background.
What does Levima do?
3. Levima is a web based administration tool for public and private sector bodies.(SaaS)
The purpose of Levima is to address an issue highlighted as recently as October 2012 in
several white papers;
“the need to ensure staff are compliant with pre-travel risk assessment
procedures which in turn means that a university or company meets its
corporate duty of care requirements.”
Corporate Travel
Group & Team Travel
High Risk Travel
Independent Multi-trip Travel
Travel
Your company’s administration team using
4. What does Levima do?
Levima provides a 4 part modular wokflow that ensures the following outcomes:
• Improved Corporate Duty of Care
• Authorised workflow stemming from pre-travel risk assessment
• Centralised itineraries & communication
• Locate travellers in an emergency situation
• Follow travellers locations without tracking data
• SMS/Email/GPS phone(BETA) – communication platform independent
Support from Google allows integration of Google maps
allows for familiar interfaces and easy to digest information.
FCO information is pooled directly to the users finger tips
avoiding wasted time searching the internet
5. What To Expect
1. Risk Assessment
Authorisation and central administration make a mandatory process simple, effective and
informative by pooling the latest travel risk information to minimise time consuming steps
and maximise staff awareness during pre-travel assessments.
2. Itinerary Builder
Exportable to company calendars, sharable with administrators and travellers within your
team.
Integration of GDS and Google mapping speeds the planning process and allows input of
unique locations while providing weather and traffic info for the traveller.
3. Check-in Function
SMS/Email; the traveller choses when and how they receive their automated check-in
message. Scheduled according to the itinerary locations, administration teams are notified of
failed check-ins to ensure swift assistance.
4. Reporting Suite
A report on every step of the journey without adding time to the trip. Managers receive an
annual reports and an overview of all current travellers carbon foot prints, return on
investment and global coverage.
Travellers access their expense reports based on the information logged throughout the
journey.
6. • FCO integrated information for latest risk
information.
• Insurance recommendation; can be set
to the company preferred supplier
• Authorisation at the click of a button
• Multi-tier hierarchy
• Traveller compliance with corporate pre-
travel protocols
7. • Company specific GDS/ GiDS feed
integration (optional).
• Automation where possible.
• Calendar, map and hard copy exports.
• Quick access to travel leg details.
• Administrator overview of all travelers and
their itinerates from their department.
8. • Non invasive traveller locating; no data tracking, satellite locating etc.
• Multi-leg check in service.
• SMS/ Email: traveller choice of easiest function.
• Failed check-in emergency prompt for admin team after 2 contact attempts.
9.
10. Administrative team
• Centralised to single department or to separate groupings.
• Authorise travel based on risk assessment completion.
• See where all actively travelling staff are at any one time.
• View their itineraries and message them as required directly.
• Receive Alerts when check-in fails.
• Have emergency contact details in place.
• Administer planning of trips for staff after traveller completes their risk assessment.
• Export information to department calendars – share the information.
11. Why do we need Levima?
Traveller Administrator
• Automated input and export where • Easy to administer authorisation
possible to save time • Centralised information
• Sharable and reusable trip data • Clean, efficient workflow
• No data monitoring, location following • Less duplication of paperwork
or invasion of privacy • Improved corporate duty of care
• Choose when you check in and how • Integration of company preferred
• Ensures proper insurance is in place to insurer
protect you • Multi platform technology; SMS, email
or satellite phone (BETA)
Company
Levima has been designed as a flexible platform to adopt and work with existing
software while providing the necessary improvements to the risk assessment
process.
12. Future Feature Development
We are crowd sourcing to ensure we develop the features you desire as our customers.
New features arriving soon:
• Greater GDS integration
• Satellite phone check-in
• Easier group messaging
• Multiple administrator authorisation
• Extensive budget request functionality
• Detailed expenses report exports
• Receipt photo uploads
• Black list prompts for airlines
• Integration with Visa services/ Immunisation & health advice
For European based companies
• Multi national message carrier
• Pooling of information from other country’s advisory bodies in addition to FCO.