112 Advanced Testimonials

"This technology helps us to maintain our competitive edge in a tough market and supports us in providing customers with the service they demand and deserve."

“As a business we are delighted to have such a great tool, to ease reporting of events that give rise to concern, in such a straightforward manner.''

"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."

“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."

"We have streamlined our processes and been able to tailor Exchequer to suit our methods, such as handling up front payments, creating a bespoke solution that you would never get out the box."

"From the moment we started to use Advanced's software, we had total clarity of the business from a financial perspective - something that is vital for charities."

"Advanced Exchequer ad Lighthouse have formed what we see as a long-term working relationship. It has been a very successful implementation for the finance team."

“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.”

“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, was exceptional. The method of intercepting the COBOL I/O at runtime meant that we didn't have to make any changes to the COBOL sources, which was vital as we wanted a quick, easy and non-intrusive method to access the new database."

"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."

"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 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!”

“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 for a proof of concept so we could have a closer look and ensure it would meet our requirements. Advanced approached IBM and we received agreement for a loan of the appliance for a one-month proof of concept. The PDA (Netezza) server spreads the load of the query over multiple processing units and multiple disks. Once you get the appliance set up and the database has been replicated across, you can actually start using it straight away, you have no complex design of a reporting database or anything like that.”