D R Systems Inc.

D R Systems Inc. develops Phoenix Connect, a cloud platform that forestry organisations use to plan and track work in the woods and in the office. The software is written by people with forestry backgrounds, and the company has sold software to the forest sector in the United States and Canada since 1983.

What D R Systems Inc. does

• Harvest and activity planning: tools for scheduling harvests and other forest work.
• Roads management: tracking the road network that serves forest operations.
• Spatial data and reporting: map-based records and reports the user chooses to generate.
• Mobile field data capture: an iOS and Android app for entering data on site or at a desk.
• Hosting and support: the company runs security, automatic backups and updates, and offers a support team with forestry knowledge.

Customers and markets

Its users range from timber companies and First Nations to consulting foresters, logging contractors and private landowners, as well as law firms, tax accountants, management consultancies and public agencies in both countries. The product is pitched at operations of any size.

Key facts

• Based in: Nanaimo, British Columbia, with a second office in Seattle, Washington
• Founded: 1983
• Standards: follows ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 for information security and cloud hosting
• Platforms: web, iOS and Android