Helping businesses save time and money

Offer any business something that will save them time and money, and you’d expect them to bite your hand off.

Yet using a dedicated time and expense management system is still something many companies and organisations fail to see a need for.

Not so at Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust Consulting, however. The UK’s leading specialist wetland–related environmental consultancy, based at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire, began working with Sage Coretime just over a year ago, and has nothing but praise for its many benefits.

“We used to produce individual timesheets in–house, using Excel to enter time against a project code,” explained office manager Monica Gilbertson.

“There are around 18 of us and, as a consultancy, all work has to be recorded so we know how much time is spent on each project. Whenever new people joined the company new projects were added and, at the start of each year, the spreadsheets had to be altered which was time–consuming, unwieldy and prone to errors.”

“Now, as soon as our consultants enter information in Coretime, the system is instantly updated and can be accessed by everyone. We can analyse different budgets and the time spent on each activity as part of a project – it’s really useful.”

WWT Consulting used Onesys, a Yorkshire and London based software company, to supply the programme and get it up and running. Onesys is the major UK partner of Global Business Systems and Sage Professional Services Division.

“Onesys gave us a good demonstration of the product and thorough training – they’ve been really helpful,” said Matt Simpson, associate director of WWT Consulting. “Their support service is excellent too”

“For us, the main benefit is that our system is now more user–friendly in terms of project managers being able to access information, such as seeing how a project is performing against budget. They can analyse how time is being spent and what proportion of it is earning fees – it’s easy to translate.”

“He added:It’s cut the time spent on routine administrative tasks and enabled us to be more efficient, which means we can focus more on the actual projects. We can have around 20 live projects on the go at any one time and if a client wants a breakdown of where the time is going, we need to respond almost instantly. Coretime allows us to do this.”

Laurie Pottage Director of Sales at Onesys, said: “We’re delighted we were able to help WWT Consulting with a time–recording system that suited their needs. Many businesses and organisations see this kind of programme as a luxury, but it generally saves so much staff time and effort that it quickly pays for itself – people can concentrate on their jobs rather than administration.”

NOTES:

Onesys delivers distribution, manufacturing and service sector software with associated accounting, EIS, timesheet and project systems. With more than 300 clients across the UK, the company is able to offer consultancy, project management, application software and user training, and prides itself on its level of support and upgrade services.

Onesys is the largest UK partner of Sage Professional Services Division and a fully accredited Sage 50, 200, CRM & Act business partner, also has formed successful partnerships with Version One, IBM and Microfocus.

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