“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 …

"Most recently we have upgraded to the latest version of TALENT to ensure we’re offering fans a fully mobile responsive service. Wherever they are, on whatever device, they can now engage with us, purchase from us and the system knows their favourite seat, holds their payment details and purchasing history …

"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."

“Purchasing of highvolume products through the system is efficient and simple via catalogue management with end-to-end electronic transactions.”

“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 …

“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.”

"It is giving the barristers everything they need for the duration of a case, from the initial case review right through to court presentation or the delivery of advice to the client."

"It was important that we invested in a finance system that was reliable, flexible and easy to use. We could see from the beginning that OpenAccounts stood out from the competition. It is arobust, solid system that ticked all the boxes."

"The new application has streamlined the process of buying a second extract, which now takes minutes instead of weeks. It offers flexible payment so there is no need to enter credit card details; one invoice is automatically generated at the end of the month. Incremental revenue is being generated for …

“Integrating two of Advanced’s solutions has been essential in saving us time and streamlining the way in which we work – allowing us to bring in more donors and plan more events."

"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."

"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 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.”

"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 …

"There are no possible package replacements for our unique software applications - so migration offered the quickest, cheapest and lowest-risk option for us to move from this ageing DEC VAX platform to an open, and more flexible Windows Server environment."