COMPAS vs Signal

COMPAS is a maritime crew management system for ship managers and offshore oil, gas, and alternative energy operators. It supports HR, compliance, and administration for teams at sea and ashore. Personnel records can hold biodata, voyage history, certificates, medical records, and training records. Built-in business logic supports one-click checks against Flag, owner, or OEM requirements, while visual planning and dynamic reports help teams review compliance, crewing needs, and operational risk. COMPAS automates payroll calculations and integrates with financial systems. Travel tools support crew-change planning and booking, with quotations, automated approvals, cost comparisons, real-time price benchmarking, and an audit trail. Crew can use a mobile app to access contracts, schedules, expenses, and assignments. Other listed features include eAppraisals, contract and certification management, and work and rest hours management. OneOcean describes COMPAS as cloud-first, with secure backups and professionally managed global infrastructure. Its specialists provide migration, training, onboarding, consultancy, and ongoing support. The product page offers a demo and brochure but lists neither a price nor a free trial.

Signal is a cloud-based workforce platform for rail, construction and plant teams, including contractors, train operators, plant providers and staffing agencies. Its rostering tools schedule workers by availability, preference or proximity to a work site and can recommend staff for open shifts. Fatigue scores update for planned and actual hours using factors such as location, travel time, hotel, shift timing and breaks. The Safety Guard Algorithm also considers working regulations, competence and site experience. Managers can set alerts for weekly hours, consecutive shifts, minimum breaks and shift length. Signal tracks rail compliance items including passports, visa expiries, medicals and PTS. Its worker app provides upcoming work, shift details, availability, travel and hotel bookings, and timesheet sign-off. Timesheets support digital signatures, GPS stamps, authorization and PDF generation. Shift changes can be sent by email, text or push notification. Payroll data exports through an API or configurable files; shifts can be imported from Primavera P6 and Oracle, and plant management integrates with Syrinx. Signal lists Android, iOS, web and API access. Pricing is on request.