"As well as making it easy for call handlers to direct calls, Adastra enables information stored in the database to be easily shared. This saves the patient time and energy as they no longer have to repeat information, such as their symptoms and medications."

“Since switching to Advanced, we have seen improvements in compliance, efficiency and cost savings. The take-up by academic staff has been excellent, far greater than we experienced previously.”

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

"As a longstanding customer it is satisfying to know that Advanced will continue to innovate."

“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 …

"Advanced has enabled us to obtain the best value for money from its technology investment. As a charity it is critical that every ‘£’ spent on IT offers more than a ‘£’ back in benefit. The Advanced approach, that begins with aligning IT to business goals, has created the strategy …

“We weren’t too sure about this at first as we hadn’t heard very much about PDA (Netezza), but we did some research online and found there were a lot of case studies where people were reporting they were getting 100-500 times better performance. So we became very interested, and asked …

"The common look and feel available across multiple platforms meant our investment in both people and capitalwas fully protected."

“To enable full integration between office automation and decision support systems, we needed to be able to take advantage of the benefits offered by new technologies.”

"The technical support we have received has been key in allowing us to develop our new e-commerce application with Advanced acting as both a trusted partner and technical consultant throughout the process."

“Advanced provides the missing link that enables the Web designer to easily integrate new e-business applications with an organisation's existing data.”

"The reports we produce in OpenHR are key to making informed management decisions. Producing them manually would be a highly time consuming and painstaking process. The system enables us to extract and manipulate information very easily and provide it in a manager’s required format, saving many hours each week since …

"A customer might tell us that they have not received an invoice and in the past, this would have meant that we would have spent time looking for it. V1 enables us to find the missing documents in seconds and send an electronic copy via email. The system and documents …

"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."