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PRESS RELEASE: 19th November 2001

Dataflow UK heads off the competition to retain The British Computer Society

The British Computer Society, the chartered institution for the information systems profession, has chosen to stay with Dataflow UK Ltd as the supplier of its business finance system. A long-term Dataflow customer, the Society has upgraded to dataflow~32, a true 32-bit Windows 95/ 2000 enterprise accounting system.

The Swindon-based organisation is a registered charity, with over 38,000 individual and corporate members worldwide. The Society's finance system has to accommodate sales and purchases related to products and services such as examinations, publications, training and event programs.

Earlier in 2001, the Society recognised that increasing volumes of business and the need for a system with more functionality meant that they had outgrown their existing DOS-based dBFLEX system, also from Dataflow, that they had been using for 5 years.

As Wendy Franklin, Finance Manager, explains, it was by no means a foregone conclusion that the Society would stay with its existing system provider. She says, "While we had worked successfully with Dataflow in the past, we went through a rigorous selection process. We rapidly came to the conclusion that dataflow~32 would give us the ease of use and flexibility of a true Windows product. It wasn't just an update of the previous dBFLEX product. It had been totally rewritten from the ground up." The Society placed its order for a 15-user replacement system at the end of March 2001.

There was an immediate advantage in choosing to stay with a Dataflow system. The Society set itself the challenge of going live with the new system at the start of its new financial year in early summer and needed to migrate all its financial data. Wendy Franklin comments, "Data migration from the old dBFLEX system to dataflow~32 went very smoothly, and the process was completed to demanding timescales. This would not have been possible if we'd had to move all our data to another vendor's system. Throughout the implementation the support provided by Dataflow was excellent. There were a few problems migrating the data, due to corrupt data on our old system, but Dataflow still managed to hit the 'go live' date." The installation also came in under budget.

Wendy Franklin adds, "Being able to exploit 32-bit technology provides us with higher levels of performance and flexibility." A future goal is to eventually link the system into the Society's membership system for an integrated solution.

Dariush Mogtader, Managing Director of Dataflow UK, comments, "We are delighted that through dataflow~32, we are continuing to fulfil the needs of the British Computer Society for a powerful yet user-friendly finance system."

For more information on BCS visit www.bcs.org

For more information, contact Dataflow UK Ltd:
Tel: 01784-454171
email sales@dataflow.co.uk
www.dataflow.co.uk

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