COA Solutions Announces Partnership with Optimum to Enhance Customer Training
18 JANUARY 2010 – Business applications software provider, COA Solutions (www.coasolutions.com), today announces a partnership with IT skills specialist, Optimum (www.optimum.co.uk). COA Solutions will now be using Optimum’s process-driven training services to enhance the customer training it delivers to support finance system implementations, upgrades and process changes.
Optimum has many years’ experience working with the IT industry and fully understands the different requirements and challenges organisations face when implementing new software systems. Optimum will be working closely with COA Solutions to deliver tailored, user-focused training, ensuring customers are confident and fully competent using their financial management systems (FMS).
Mark Thompson, Managing Director of COA Solutions, says “Our partnership with Optimum will ensure our customers fully understand how their COA Solutions finance systems support their business processes, maximising their IT investments. With Optimum’s strong track record in successfully designing, developing and delivering tailored IT training programmes, we’re confident that our customers will be getting the very best system training available.”
Sarah Kirk, Managing Director of Optimum, says, “As the UK’s leading business applications software provider serving the mid-market, we’re delighted to be COA Solutions’ preferred training partner. COA Solutions’ user-friendly and functionally-rich financial applications together with our tailored end-user training solutions, provides a powerful combination, ensuring COA Solutions customers enjoy long-term value from their finance systems.”
About COA Solutions www.coasolutions.com
COA Solutions is the UK's leading supplier of integrated business management and information systems to public, private and not-for-profit organisations in the service sector. COA Solutions prides itself on getting close to its customers by understanding their businesses and responding to their business needs.
COA Solutions' award-winning Smart Business Suite combines core financial management, procurement, human resource and payroll systems, integrated with a range of collaborative, document management and business intelligence solutions. COA Solutions also provides managed service and bureau service options. Its systems and services extend the value and effectiveness of the finance, HR and payroll departments across the organisation and enable managers in the business to monitor, analyse and continually improve corporate performance.
COA Solutions has more than 500 experienced and professional staff supporting and servicing over 4,000 clients across the UK service sector including Companies House, Newcastle City Council, WHSmith, Royal Bank of Scotland, Aer Lingus, National Express Group, DFS, RSPB and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust.
About Optimum www.optimum.co.uk
Optimum is an IT skills consultancy, founded in 1998. The company designs, develops and delivers customised, user focused training on a range of business systems. Courses and training materials are tailored to the client’s specific requirements and resources, ensuring that the system is used as effectively as possible throughout the organisation and delivers the predicted business benefits. Optimum is also the preferred training partner for a number of system vendors who recognise the value that user focused training adds to their customers’ investment in technology. Optimum is a member of the Institute for IT Trainers and all training consultants are certified by the Institute.
COA Solutions Contacts:
Liz Ebbrell, COA Solutions
Liz.ebbrell@coasolutions.com
+44 (0)1625 856505 or 07917 634 705
Be Carey, COA Solutions
Ben.carey@coasolutions.com
+44 (0)1625 856505
Optimum Contacts
Christina Torrington, Optimum
Christina.torrington@optimum.co.uk
+44 (0)20 777 9876 or 07983 366208
Angie Wild, Results PR
optimum@resultspr.demon.co.uk
+44 (0)1452 813906
