Implementing 5.5

Integra Associates uses its unique blend of business and technical skills together with its experience of Agresso and project management to help organisations quickly gain maximum advantage from V5.5.

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Beazley plc

Integra was chosen to provide Beazley with the consultancy necessary to review key aspects of their finance and management information system and to implement the preferred solutions.

www.beazley.com

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The Port of London Authority

A technical audit of key financial systems for the Port of London

It was good to work with a relatively small company who clearly knew Agresso inside out, had the right skillsets to do an audit (both technical and financial), were quick to understand our business, stayed focused on the Board's terms of reference, had good synergy with my team and, most importantly, make recommendations that were appropriate for our line of business!

Information Services Manager

The Port of London Authority

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Casella PTS Group
Group re-structure and Professional Services Implementation

The Casella Group is one of the world’s leading integrated environmental solutions companies. Having expanded rapidly in recent years, through a carefully targeted acquisition programme, the Casella Group now boasts a uniquely comprehensive range of environmental services and products.

Rapid expansion left the group with a number of challenges in rationalising it’s financial and project management systems and in making management reporting work effectively across the group to aid decision support. Casella have been using Integra to help face these challenges on a wide variety of projects since 2001. Currently Integra are assisting the Professional & Technical Services businesses consolidate their decision support and financial systems onto AGRESSO Business World. Integra also involved in supporting the relocation of finance functions to different office locations.

We chose Integra because they understood our business but more importantly they understood how to make our financial and project management systems work for our business. In addition we value Integra’s independent advice and approach to providing an integrated business solution. The Casella Group sees the relationship with Integra as crucial to the success of our business and as such has entered into a long-term agreement with them.”

David Bache
Finance Director

Dutailier  |  International Furniture Manufacturer

An innovative chair manufacture, based in Canada, was looking for its subsidiary in UK to replace legacy system with a state of the art system to give scalable fit for business solution.

Global Development Agency
Training and Reporting for a Global Agency

This major global development organisation required a reporting solution to cover both internal management reporting, and reporting to external sponsor organisations. Sponsor reporting was particularly demanding to meet the needs of ensuring prudent use of funds. Integra set up a number of queries and balance tables, and a set of Excelerator reports to meet these requirements.

In addition Integra provided comprehensive, in-depth training courses for the organisation's IT staff. The training covered the design and structure of the database as well as the interrelationships between database and application, and how to use Crystal reports, SQL and Excelerator with the application.

Integra also provided an overview of the fixed assets module, and advice on how to put the module into production.

RAC
Accounts Receivable & CRM Integration

RAC had numerous accounting packages it elected to consolidate onto Agresso.  We trained our core team on Agresso and would use this team to bring knowledge of our business and its processes to the implementation.  We had no desire to hire to meet the highest staffing needs.

Initially we turned to Integra to meet our temporary staffing needs but in reality gained much more.

Integra ended up understanding our business and processes and aided the core team to increase their knowledge.  A true knowledge transfer.  They became part of the team but exited then in true professional style.

Warren Gemberling
Project Manager, RAC Motoring Services

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Detica Limited

After a rigorous selection process Detica choose Integra to help them upgrade to 5.5 and enhance their Agresso system. Why did they choose Integra?

An independent third party spoke to Detica about their reasons and found a project delivered on time and within budget.

www.detica.com

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Agresso Project Cost and Billing

With many years experience of delivering Agresso Project based solutions Integra Associates maintains strong practical business and technical skills. Our clients have recognised the benefits in drawing on this experience by using Integra Associates to meet the complex challenges of configuring the most cost effective Project solutions.

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Working with Local Government

Integra has worked with more than 30 clients in Local government, ranging from District Council to Unitary Authorities

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University of Bath

'This was a very significant transformation project - no one contemplating such a migration should underestimate the change impact such a project can have nor the need to invest thoroughly in the support, engagement and commitment of the users.

Overall the project has been a huge challenge but with Integra's experience we felt assured and part of a well controlled project. As with any project we encountered problems but these were managed and efficiently dealt with.'

Howard Crowter-Jones

MARS Project Business Co-ordination Manager

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National Grid ESIS  |  Sun Accounts implementation

We engaged Integra to assist us with the implementation of a new financial system as part of a major business process re-engineering exercise.

Integra provided project management of the implementation of the Sun Accounts and Sun Business products throughout the full project lifecycle, from requirements analysis through to post-implementation review. Integra were also responsible for vendor management, and the gaining of internal audit approval from the National Grid’s internal auditors.

The project included integration with a Timewatch time recording system, and was implemented for over thirty finance, and three hundred timesheet users. Integra’s expertise and commitment ensured the smooth running of the project in an environment where securing internal resources was often challenging, and ultimately that the system was implemented on time and to budget.

www.nationalgrid.com

Robin Birch
Finance Director

Lex Services
System Selection for a Leading Services Group

We asked Integra to assist us in selecting an ERP system as part of a major programme designed to move the group from portfolio management towards a more integrated management style. We commissioned a report to evaluate and compare a number of ERP systems which we were considering. Integra drew on their own experience, and that of industry associates to produce a report, which compared and scored the systems against a set of assessment criteria. The report, which was produced to a very tight deadline, was impressively comprehensive, addressing areas directly relevant to our organisation and focusing on the key differentiating factors which we would need to consider.

www.racbusiness.co.uk

Richard Judge

The University of Nottingham
Procurement System Design and Deployment

We have used Integra to help us to get the most out of our Agresso system since 1998. The largest project Integra have helped us with was the implementation of Agresso’s Purchase Order Processing (POP) module across over 40 university departments. The university is a community of departments with quite diverse purchasing requirements and prior to implementing POP each department had its own stand alone purchasing system.

Integra organised a series of configuration workshops and were able to reconcile the differing POP and Inventory Management needs of the various departments to allow us to achieve a configuration which gives us a unified picture of procurement across the University.

Integra also assisted with the data migration, wrote a suite of reports and enquiries around the solution and trained the trainers for a training programme for over 800 procurement and inventory management users.

We were impressed with Integra’s commitment, their level of application knowledge, and the effort they put in to achieve a real understanding of the University’s culture and requirements. They made the software work for the University in terms of the University’s capacity for change as well making it work technically.

A consultancy independent from the software provider provides a broader perspective and Integra has a feel for procurement management in practice. The University has been able to extract information from the system which has directly assisted us in leveraging greater savings in partnership with our suppliers.

www.nottingham.ac.uk

Peter Simmonds
Director of Procurement