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CIMA member wins Business Award for Technical Innovation
CIMA member Paul Driscoll ACMA and fellow Director Peter Rennoldson received the South Wales Chamber Business Award for Technical Innovation for Hudman Limited’s Central Accounting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software application at the awards ceremony held on 28th February 2013.
Central Accounting ERP (www.centralaccounting.co.uk) is an award winning cloud based accounting and ERP system for small business to help you plan, control, and account for your businesses.
Directors Paul Driscoll ACMA and Peter Rennoldson were delighted to received the award on behalf of the firm and its clients. “Our aim is to give smaller businesses the same potential to improve productivity that the very best large ERP systems have to offer, but at a very affordable price, and being web based the application is highly scalable which means it also offers a very real ‘future proofed’ solution to any growing business,” said Peter.
In 2005, Paul Driscoll ACMA was helping a client business which was looking to streamline its processes.
“Many small businesses have the same problems calculating their material requirements, or planning their production, as large businesses, but not the reserves of time and funds required to invest in the large MRP (Material Requirements Planning) or ERP software solutions designed to meet such problems. We decided that we should get together and develop an application that would fill the gap in the market place.” Paul explained.
To test the underlying development software, the team incorporated as Hudman Limited, and launched ShoppingPlanner.co.uk just before Christmas 2005, which enables a member to set up their own recipes and then generate a shopping list of ingredients. In November 2009, the team launched Central Accounting which was designed with the user in mind in order to get the business up and running as quickly as possible and with a minimum of technical accounting or IT knowledge.
Paul said, “Central Accounting is a good example of ‘cloud computing’ – it just requires a PC or Mac with an Internet browser making it ideal for multi site, remote access, and flexible home/ office working. All data communication is encrypted, business updates are applied to every installation so every business is always up to date. We rent it to the users, and for a five-user installation, it’s little more than the average mobile phone contract.”
This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by CIMA UK Regional News .
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