Eurodata
Overview
Established in 1990, Eurodata is a privately owned independent IT company turning over around £20 million, employing around 120 people across four locations (three in London and one in Wales). Eurodata’s area of excellence focuses on the desktop, server and network space covering storage and archiving, network and end point security. They provide their customers with tailored IT services and solutions, which in the past had only been available to large enterprise organisations. Eurodata looks after companies’ hardware infrastructure - the robustness and effectiveness of the servers, switches and routers, the PCs and their connectivity and their security. Being based in the City of London, Eurodata’s clients tend to be in banking, insurance and finance, the legal profession and local government.
Previously, Eurodata had a Sage invoicing system, a bespoke general ledger programme and a manual paperbased order and stock control system with manual cash books.
Challenge
What Eurodata needed was an up to date system that had ease of input, a system that once you put things in, was easy to get the information out of the other side and a system that linked with other systems in the business. They wanted a system where everything would be integrated but that would not need to be heavily customised because that would make it harder to support.
Solution
Simon Gold is Finance Director at Eurodata and is responsible for the finances of the company and all the accounting functions. “Once you’ve won a customer and you have turned a quote into an order, you’ve then got to put it into your accounting system and your accounting system has then got to deal with stock, order entry, purchases and general information, which is what the Lakeview system does.”
Gold continued, "With the Lakeview system all the modules are integrated, you do have a nice seamless interface, when you put an order on the system you have a few key strokes, you have an invoice and you’ve got entries in the nominal ledger. We are able to retrieve data simply and quickly. It’s a jolly good product generally. Lakeview knows its own software, how to deal with it and manipulate it; and I am very happy with the support whenever I need it. They are a fine supplier.”
“We manage to produce the accounts inside two days at the end of the month. People aren’t running around, ripping their hair out, because the system isn’t falling over all the time.”
“We find the Lakeview system very cost effective and the long term cost of ownership is really very cheap. The software is always developing but the upgrade path is easy to implement and learn and installation of new versions is always seamless. Lakeview are now much more engaged with their clients and encouraging feedback but their customer service has always been very good, with highly knowledgeable and effective staff.”
We would welcome an opportunity to talk to you in more detail about how we can directly benefit you and your organisation.
To arrange an on-line demonstration, please call Vickie Goddard on 0845 388 3329 or email vickieg@lakeview.co.uk
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