“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 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 …

“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.”

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

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

"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."

"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 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."

“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 important that we spend our marketing budget on communications in the most efficient way. This successful project has improved the quality of our data, and will continue to enrich it going forward."

"The collaborative, dynamic and flexible approach from our Advanced contacts has ensured that the deployment and ongoing development continues to impress and inspire."

"Advanced are the right size and fit for HS1 in the right location (both head offices are just over a mile apart in London) to provide a tailored IT managed service. Consequently Advanced will act as an ‘IT shepherd’ for HS1 on all IT related matters."

"OpenEngage has already made a huge impact on the Society of Operations Engineers and we’re looking forward to completing the final two stages of the project. Both the online documents and directories modules will add more value to our website, offering members and nonmembers useful links and contacts."

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