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Customer Story – Swindon College

Founded in 1843, Swindon College prepares students for employment or further study with a wide range of full- and part-time courses.

“Having a cloud-based finance system has made things a lot easier. We can all work from home successfully.”

Elaine Thickens, Purchase Ledger Officer

Swindon College

Adults and undergraduates alike learn from professional faculty in educational facilities purpose-built for their field. Industry-standard facilities include Engineering, Construction, Hospitality and Catering, Hairdressing, Beauty, and Art and Design.

The Challenges

Swindon College came to Xledger in 2015, looking to overcome challenges of their existing on-premise ERP. Challenges faced included:

On-premise solution with archaic elements
Unfeasible development costs of their current provider
The need to be browser based and on the web
A lack of WIFI always-on connection (with backups) for continuity of service
Difficult workflow processes with IT specialists needed to work the system
Too many manual tasks within the finance team
An inflexible system with custom installs
An old fashioned interface

The Approach

Xledger provided Swindon FE college with a cost-effective platform, no monthly tie-in and quarterly vendor-side updates. The approach used to on-board included:

One consistent account manager
A strong migration plan to deliver on
An Xledger consultant and PM leading on implementation

“We are in control of our own product, whereas with the previous system, we were not,” reports Swindon College. “I don’t have to ask a specialist in IT to extract the data I can’t drill down into or rely on an SQL specialist to do things for me. Xledger is great for speed of use and much easier to get around than previous systems making us much more capable. The whole breadcrumb user navigation experience is a lot better too.”

The Solution

In Xledger, Swindon found true cloud and a consistent (end-end) customer journey with:

Deployed integrated system in the cloud
Agile forecasting system with easy to use navigation
Automated banking and accounting functions
Additional functionality for planning
Support and development with the Xledger team
Project accounting functionality
Reporting and analytics in real-time
A system staff all can use easily

“Key to us at the end of the day was success of the implementation process and delivery of the product, which you did really well,”

Elaine Thickens, Purchase Ledger Officer

Swindon College

Get in touch

Speak to one of our dedicated team members for more information on how Xledger can support your business.

Contact person

Direct Sales Manager

Tom Whewell

Tom.Whewell@xledger.co.uk

+447770999667

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