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Improve the flow of financial information to cut costs and increase productivity

Organisations need to ensure that information flows between employees and business systems seamlessly. That way, instead of a-once-a-year exercise in isolation, budgeting can be a cyclical process that starts with setting strategic objectives and follows through to reporting and analysing results.

Follow the links and read the case studies on this page to see how finance directors are reducing costs, increasing productivity and demonstrating return on investment quickly with software for the people-ready business.


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Help your people move your business forward

Do your people spend too much time looking for information? Do they struggle to connect to the office when out on the road? Improve their productivity. Give them the tools to collaborate better, share information securely and work effectively from virtually anywhere.

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Case study: Paul Smith

With showrooms and shops in every fashion capital, Paul Smith needed a solution to make their communications continuously available to their network. Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2007 gave them what they were looking for.

White Paper: New World of Work

Social, political, economic and demographic change is transforming the way we work today. The New World of Work is a Microsoft framework for understanding how all these forces will impact on organisations.


Case studies

Paul Smith radically improves its finance reporting while cutting costs
Ashley Long, Finance Director, Paul Smith

It's a complex challenge delivering a fashion collection on time and within budget. Find out how investments by Paul Smith in Microsoft technology have helped the company increase sales, improve its image and become more efficient.

People-ready software helps Sport England get ahead of the game
Clive Heaphy, Finance Director, Sport England

Sport England works with local communities and on major projects such as the new Wembley stadium and the 2012 Olympics. By modernising its internal processes with the help of Microsoft solutions, the authority now saves up to 20 days per transaction and has brought the cost per transaction down from £25 to £2.50.

Durham Business School attracts more students without more funding
Gioia Pescetto, Associate Dean, Durham Business School

Microsoft technology means Durham Business School can deliver high-quality teaching to more students, without increasing its administrative costs. As a bonus, their new IT infrastructure enables students, researchers and other stakeholders to communicate easily.