"Many of our partners are schools and councils and to maintain and potentially win new contracts, we need to be able to provide specific staffing and financial data. Advanced’s software gives us instant, easy access to that data, along with the reassurance that it is timely and accurate, which is …

"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."

"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 …

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

"Collaborative Planning far exceeded the functionality of the Excel-based system we considered and crucially integrated into the general ledger within our accounting system, also provided by Advanced. The consistent look and feel throughout ensured all departments quickly embraced the system as it is simple to analyse financial information in a …

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

"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 …

"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."

“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 …

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

"Our existing SalesLogix system had three access points and each had a different, cumbersome, interface. It was difficult to import data and produce reports and expensive to develop and maintain, so we knew we had to switch."

“The support we received from Advanced throughout the project was excellent, with regular and effective communications."

"We have over 7,000 alumni records on our database, and so far we have contact details for over 5,500 of these. Donor Strategy allows us to store, track and edit every morsel of information we have, so we’re always on top of things."

"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."