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London, UK, 26 September, 2011. The University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) and UNIT4 Business Software Ltd, the UK division of UNIT4,the world’s leading provider of business software for Businesses Living INChange (BLINC™), today announced that the Royal Veterinary College in London has selected Financials and Procurement solutions from the Agresso Campus Platform as part of a ground-breaking shared services agreement.

This is one of the first Higher Education Finance system shared services in London and is expected to help the College adapt to increased funding challenges. UNIT4 will supply the Royal Veterinary College with the Agresso Campus Platform and together with ULCC they will implement, support and deliver the solution across ULCC’s technical infrastructure. The fully integrated Financials and Procurement solutions will provide the College with the tools and visibility needed to increase operational efficiency, improve employee productivity and maximise financial control.

“We chose the Agresso Campus Platform and shared services delivery because of the efficiencies it will deliver to us,” said Andrew Dyer, Director of Finance at the Royal Veterinary College.  “Firstly, the Platform approach will allow us to grow an integrated enterprise-wide systems infrastructure according to business need, secondly, because the software is flexible we will be able to easily and cost effectively alter it to adapt to ongoing change, and thirdly, as the leading solution in the sector we know that it will benefit from ongoing investment and improvement.”

By entering into a shared services agreement with ULCC the Royal Veterinary College will benefit from financial and operational economies of scales that come from sharing.  Additionally by using the Agresso Campus Platform to underpin the shared services both organisations will profit from a low total cost of ownership because the solution can easily be altered as required by ULCC’s support team, without having to engage expensive external consultants.  

“UNIT4 has been actively promoting shared services in the sector,” said Andrew Dyer, Director of Finance at the Royal Veterinary College. “They introduced us to the University of London and ULCC, who as existing users of Agresso, with a similar business model, were ideally positioned to provide us with the service. These are exciting times and it is just this kind of partnership that will help institutions be more efficient in light of Lord Browne’s recommendations, the Government’s Higher Education whitepaper and the comprehensive spending review.”

The complete announcement and further information can be found on the UNIT4 website: http://bit.ly/pPlJQx