12 Feb 2008
Exchequer has been selected to provide a new Financial
Management System for Commercial Azure Technology (C.A.T. Ltd), a
National IT Service Company with offices in the South, Midlands and
the North of England.
The Company employs 350 skilled Engineers to provide Data and
Voice Network Cabling and Installation Services. The 8 user
Exchequer System developed by IRIS Accounting and Business
Solutions (www.iris.co.uk/exchequer)
went live in February 2008.
C.A.T. (www.cat-limited.com) specified
Exchequer as the system to help drive the business forward in a
consistent way and deliver a common set of data that every member
of the team can rely on for accuracy.
The company handles a variety of installations
ranging from single site installations through to National Roll out
programs, frequently, there are between 30 and 70 simultaneous jobs
at any one time and multiple departments are involved in the
co-ordination of each stage. A complicated and manually intensive
system using Excel spreadsheets had previously been used to
co-ordinate all activities. In practice, the system could fall down
as the spreadsheets were not always updated so an accurate snapshot
was not guaranteed.
The Sentimail® Module was central to the
decision to implement Exchequer as Russell Bearman, Director of
C.A.T. Limited explained: “Sentimail is an ideal tool for us as it
allows us the flexibility to set our own criteria for business
alerts which are either e-mailed or sent by text (SMS) messaging.
We will be able to alert the Project Manager when a job should have
been completed, alert the accounts department when the invoice
needs to be issued and if the invoice remains unpaid, we can alert
the salesman to check with the customer that they are happy with
the job and there are no reasons to withhold payment.
“With our current method of spreadsheets,
there are so many opportunities for the system to fall down and it
is also extremely laborious. Exchequer is a system that will allow
us to drive the company forward in a consistent way.”
Alan Griffiths, Sales Director of IRIS
Accounting & Business Solutions said: “We are delighted that
C.A.T. has identified Exchequer as the system that will provide a
solid foundation for their growth over the coming years.”
