"We wanted to provide our business with the best solution possible…Advanced demonstrated the breadth of capability and flexibility required to deliver such a key business application."

"The solution is a powerful purchasing tool for all staff including researchers and academics, but also provides Procurement with essential visibility and financial control over spend.”

"On the back of the system we have completely restructured and transformed our Finance service, and delivered £1 million in savings. On top of that we anticipate additional savings because Collaborative Planning allows budgets to be managed more closely, which encourages querying of spending."

"The ability to develop applications using open source code allows developers to create new applications and services in half the time, and shorter development cycles allow us to react to change and bring new products to market a lot faster than we were able to previously."

"We knew that these features would increase the load on the OpenVMS Alpha systems and scalability was not going to be possible without a change of platform. Given the rich functionality of our MIDAS system, there was no viable package replacement. Migration, therefore, offered us a fast, costeffective, and low-risk …

"The mobile app will reduce the time and cost to process student expense claims by 15%*, allowing my team more opportunity to work with club organisers in other areas such as gaining sponsorship, running events and other commercial activity."

"In recent years we have made two significant business acquisitions which has helped increase our annual sales from £30m to £90m and Exchequer absorbed all the extra transactions with very little effort."

“Staff no longer have to worry that stock will not be re-ordered in time. They also have a greater awareness of the cost of items and the importance of accurate stock management”

“Collaborative Planning is key to enabling our Trust to control the preparation, monitoring and updating of forecasts… We are particularly pleased with how the solution has engaged non-finance staff in the forecasting process which is fundamental to accurate financial planning, and central to the ongoing success of our ‘Building World …

"We chose Advanced for this complex and demanding migration as it had both the technical expertise to convert our OpenVMS applications to Windows and also its wellestablished migration methodology. They delivered on time and on budget."

"Integrated mobile technology has been well received because ultimately it gives care workers much more flexibility."

"The level of detail we can provide to management and other relevant parties has improved significantly thanks to Advanced."

"We can now procure goods and services more efficiently than ever before and have much greater control over procurement, whilst being smarter about what we procure and from whom. This has allowed us to more tightly manage costs. At a time when public sector budgets are under increasing scrutiny, effectively …

"Through Donor Strategy, we can coordinate with Finance to ensure we are aware of all donations received in the last week or month. It really brings to light anything that might have been missed."

"After using Microsoft Dynamics CRM, staff are reluctant to use anything else. Microsoft Dynamics was the right decision because it’s given us a tool we can work with really effectively."