Company Overview - ExcelWraps

Welcome to the Business Owners Magazine quick interview – conducted in a very socially distanced fashion! Here we try and get an insight into a company leader and their industry to find out what makes them tick and how their challenges and lessons could help you in your business.

- Name - John Doyle

- Company - ExcelWraps (Rolling Stock Technology)

- Position - Director

- Industry - Railway

What does your company do?

Enables railway engineers to build cloud software solutions to bring control to any business process without any specialist software development skills.

What changes or challenges do you foresee for your company in the next three years?

Persuading the whole railway industry that they can put themselves in a position of control by harnessing our technology.

Are you optimistic, realistic or pessimistic about 2021?

Optimistic!

What is the most important task you carry out each day?

Meeting new prospects and showing them how we can make them operate more efficiently.

What is your company’s most important KPI?

Number and growth of users.

What positive effects has your company experienced during lockdowns?

Clients much more readily use screen meeting software, and we all benefit from shorter more frequent meetings and less time wasted in the car. Clients more readily see the benefit is expanding use of cloud-based software allowing their own teams to work remotely. No wasted car journeys!

What causes you the most stress in your business?

Banking, billing and red tape.

If you could instantly change one area or thing about your business, what would it be?

To be known as the de facto software platform for any railway company.

How would you rank the following in order of importance? (1 most, 5 least)

- Enviromental (1st)

- Team communications (2nd) -

Sales Pipeline (3rd)

- Strong Financial Data (4th)

- Social Media (5th)

What do you do to unwind?

Cherish my favourite people.