The Boating Suite app allows captains to track their expenses, log their fuel and keep records of maintenance.
That means customers will keep coming back for upgrades and maintenance.
Due to the ongoing repairs, the village owners use a full-time stonemason and maintenance man to keep the buildings in good order.
This means lots more spending on technologies to arrest decline rates and on maintenance to keep older wells around the world in tip-top condition.
As each new market rises, the support, service and maintenance markets required to keep them running thrive as well.
The status quo consists of expensive licensing deals, even more pricey setup costs followed by ongoing maintenance and consulting fees just to keep the software up to date.
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After all, maintenance and service contracts help build and keep cash flow from customer channels, and it is not enough to simply have them sign off on such contracts to hand over to the support department.
"We'll ensure we keep any maintenance work to a minimum which will help customers send and receive text and picture messages via their mobiles, " a spokesman for O2 said.
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More are attracted by the French model: keep the assets in public hands, but contract out investment, operations and maintenance.
Although the Selby bridge project has been deferred, Network Rail said maintenance work would be carried out to keep it "safe and reliable".
Maintenance required for the ship, and the training required to keep the crew combat ready, are also essential considerations that have been studied and refined over the history of aircraft carrier operations.
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Poor maintenance at some hospitals was also said to be hampering efforts to keep wards and public spaces clean.
These approaches are designed to save customers money by allowing them to keep the software that they have, rather than spend millions on new software, installation and maintenance.
The Internet as a whole is very diverse in technologies and software, which is why it is so robust, but we are going to keep seeing these large entities suffering large if not global outages as long as they value economy of scale in purchasing and maintenance over true system diversity.
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