"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."

"Collaborative Planning is key to enabling the Trust to control the preparation, monitoring and updating of forecasts. The solution gives us far greater control over every aspect of our financial planning."

“Advanced also have excellent Account Management and always answer to our needs and wants in good time. We will continue to work closely with them to improve the processes and relationships with our buyers.”

"Extracting data and reports is also much simpler – information for MDS submissions can now be gathered in hours by one person."

"The potential of the system is tremendous and we are excited by all of the opportunities that it presents us with, especially those that will help to support our aims including those within our school development plan."

“The teething problems of our first year are being rectified and we are growing in confidence each day. This system has the potential to drive school improvement by making information accessible to those who need it, when they need it."

"Advanced has an excellent reputation across the sector and having multiple products from the same supplier means that our IT systems are more integrated, which saves us considerable amounts of time and therefore money."

"The solution ensures compliance with our quality systems. In addition to full control over suppliers and purchase authorisation, a full electronic order trail covers every transaction."

“The Advanced team are experts in their field, we feel safe in the knowledge that their experience ensures that we are in capable hands. Our partnership requires minimal effort, basically they do all the hard work for the customer!”

“As a solicitor dealing with very sensitive information, it is vital that we have a detailed insight into how the firm is performing and are aware of any complaints or compliance issues, so that we can quickly respond to them. The reporting tool and automated workflows in ALB make this …

“With intelligence about our products and their associated costs at our fingertips, we can investigate why one surgeon may be using products that are more expensive than another surgeon. We have the insight to ask questions and find answers so that we can make cost-conscious decisions.”

“By analysing spend data, Advanced have identified savings of over £60K that could be achieved if the Trust switched its supply route from direct to NHS Supply Chain and vice versa.”

"We were also impressed by Advanced presence in the care market. This translated into a good understanding of our requirements, particularly in the key area of income processing."

“Advanced has experience of dealing with application vendors through its 30-year history of providing integration products and services. It has enabled them to address not only our technical requirements, but also our business needs.”

"It wasn't just a case of translating each COBOL record to a database table; we had to use the existing Life System's SQL Server Schema and match the items to the COBOL definitions. The flexibility afforded by the metadata layer, and the assistance provided during our initial testing and development, …