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m-hance Social Business reaches British Accountancy Awards final

m-hance, one of the UK’s fastest growing providers of business software solutions, is a finalist in the 2012 British Accountancy Awards. m-hance has been shortlisted in the ‘Software Product of the Year’ category for its innovative enterprise social networking (ESN) solution, m-hance Social Business (mSB). The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony held at Old Billingsgate Market in London on 21 November 2012.

The British Accountancy Awards recognise excellence in the accountancy community. The judging panel of leading industry experts were called upon to ensure this year’s entries reflected the latest breakthroughs and triumphs in the accountancy profession, making them the most relevant and prestigious awards in their genre.

Andrew Hayward, Managing Director of m-hance, comments, “mSB is the only solution of its kind to have reached the final of these respected industry awards. This reflects that more and more finance professionals are recognising how ESN technology can cut costs and deliver measurable efficiency gains throughout the business as well as within their own departments.”

mSB is an internal networking tool that provides secure and seamless out-of-the-box connectivity to financial management, CRM, SharePoint and other SQL and Oracle based applications, enabling employees to easily access, comment on and share valuable knowledge to drive more profitable communications. mSB can be deployed on premise or as a private hosted managed solution, providing flexibility and security over company data.

Key benefits of m-hance Social Business for finance professionals include:

Increases productivity by an average 2% per user providing efficiency savings ranging from £70,000 per year (based on 100 users) to £350,000 (based on 500 users) through reduced email ‘noise’Enables finance teams to be perceived as more trusted advisorsHelps to reduce costly financial mistakesReduces ‘push reporting’ to allow more time to be spent on strategic activitiesMoves systems of record to systems of engagement

Hayward comments, “ESN is one of those defining technologies that will command business’ attention whether they like it or not. Today’s younger employees will expect it and increasingly finance professionals will demand it to improve productivity so they can focus more on key strategic tasks and receive alerts to enable them to quickly address issues before they arise.”

Hayward adds, “As a supplier we firmly believe in taking our own medicine and have a real need to keep our lines of communication open as a rapidly expanding business. Since adopting mSB internally m-hance’s finance team is saving two days each month that were previously spent on answering queries and processing administrative tasks. This has helped us to reduce our debtor days and tighten our credit control procedures, directly benefitting our bottom line.”

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About m-hancewww.m-hance.com

m-hance is a UK-based company providing innovative and functionally rich business software solutions to 2400 mid-market sized organisations including Innocent Drinks, RFU, Viridor, Millennium Hotels, Make-A-Wish, Hewden and Endsleigh Insurance. m-hance’s core solutions offering consists of financial management, CRM, enterprise social networking, SharePoint, HR & Payroll, managed services and software development in a variety of vertical markets including distribution, manufacturing, not-for-profit, professional services and infrastructure.

m-hance has been formed following the acquisitions of Calyx Software, Gyrosoft, Trinity Computer Services and elements of MentecPlus, Touchstone Group and Maxima Holdings plc. m-hance is currently supported by 230 staff from offices in Manchester, London, Loughborough, Dublin, Glasgow and the United States. m-hance also has offshore development capabilities in India.

In September 2012, m-hance was ranked in the Tech Track 100 league table as one of the fastest-growing private technology companies in Britain after achieving record sales growth of over 45%.

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Ben Carey, PR Manager

T: 07713 196971 e: ben.carey@m-hance.com

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