Public Services
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Advanced Business Solutions works over 50 emergency services organisations, and we are the No.1 supplier of business management and information systems to UK Police Forces. Over 60% of UK forces use our back office solutions to reduce costs and improve process efficiencies so that they can reallocate funds to front-line services.
We work closely with Fire & Rescue Services on the same basis, and our range of back office solutions includes financial accounting, Procure to Pay, invoice management, expenses management, HR & Payroll, budgeting & forecasting, Business Intelligence & Analytics, and our Smart Business Suite.
Advanced Business Solutions’ ten year track record in Shared Services is invaluable in assessing this type of collaborative working arrangement and others - such as partnerships and outsourcing. Our strategy is to provide a variety of choices which give our customers maximum opportunity for savings and efficiency.
For example, Advanced Business Solutions has:
As these examples, show, Advanced Business Solutions can help your organisation in a number of ways: collaborating with neighbouring and remote organisations; collaborating with organisations of the same type or different types; and implementing systems from small to large scale.
With Police Forces under pressure to investigate collaborations with neighbouring forces, and Fire & Rescue Services facing the prospect of regionalisation, working with Advanced Business Solutions means having the best choice of collaborative working arrangements, implemented with best practice.
Advanced Business Solutions’ is highly skilled in the Business Intelligence (BI) arena with over 500 successful installations in the last 20 years.
BI approaches are useful in the Public Sector and Emergency Services environments because existing/legacy systems can still play useful roles through integration into new processes - particularly in budgeting, forecasting and reporting functions which may have changed as a result of a shared service arrangement, for example.
BI systems have a reputation for requiring large up-front investments - and this may not be practical. Advanced Business Solutions can help you overcome this by staging savings throughout the life of the implementation so that economies made in one stage can be used fund the next. This reduces the level of up-front investment dramatically, smoothes cash flow throughout the project and reduces risk.
Our BI approach is a good example of how Advanced Business Solutions has developed genuine working partnerships with its Emergency Services customers.
With almost two decades of experience in the Public Sector, Advanced Business Solutions knows that building short-term solutions is not a workable strategy. We work in close partnership with all our Emergency Services customers, taking time to understand your operating landscape, and building future flexibility into the systems and solutions we provide.
Shared Services is a good example. You may choose to use an outsourcing arrangement now only to find that Shared Services is more cost effective in three years’ time. Working with Advanced Business Solutions, your organisation will be able to make these transitions more easily, knowing that we’re just as committed to your long-term success as you are.