Flex Rental Solutions Announces Flex5 Enters Early Access for Select Customers

Flex Rental Solutions, an internationally recognized provider of enterprise web-based rental management software for the AV, event, and production management industry, announced that Flex5 tablet -- the new HTML5 redesign of its software -- has entered into early access for select customers.

Flex5 is the company's new HTML5 user interface and features a complete rewrite of Flex's user interface and backend architecture. Flex5 will eventually replace Flex's current Flash UI by adding phone and tablet accessibility along with a new desktop environment, starting first with the tablet version. The initial release will have core contact and inventory management, three different types of dashboard widgets, inquiry scan, free scan in and scan out, prep and return.

"Last year was a fantastic year laying down a whole new foundation for the Flex product," said Flex's technical lead Roger Diller, "the critical and biggest part of our 2017 effort was figuring out the new backend architecture and getting the Flex4 and Flex5 backend to communicate nicely."

Those efforts culminated in mid-December when Flex5 went into early access for customers willing to test Flex5 on their live data and provide feedback.

"This allowed us to send everything all the way through the new delivery pipeline and work out any quirks that came up, since everything is so new, and cutting edge, we are easing into the Flex5 rollout very carefully and deliberately. We've already learned a lot by sending everything through the new pipeline and expect to learn much more as we gradually open up the Flex5 valve to more customers," added Diller.

The company plans to release Flex5 to more customers during the first quarter of 2018. After the initial tablet release, the company hopes to shift into an iterative release schedule with a new release happening every couple of months.