The Business Case

Read some of the reasons why hundreds of the leading companies use our Workbench Solutions

The Top Ten Reasons say our customers...

1. Reduced Direct Costs

• General reduction of administrative time and overhead.
• Less costly to maintain formal (e.g. ISO9000) standards.
• Eliminating the 'paper trail' of manual systems always results in significant distribution cost savings : reduced paper, copying, mailing and other distribution overheads.
• Paper/archive storage costs eliminated.

2. Reduced Indirect Costs

• Time is money! By eliminating system bottlenecks and distribution logjams all kinds of time savings can be realised.
• Full audit trails throughout the system bring greater traceability and significantly reduce compliance and external audit costs.
• Streamlining - achieve immediate business gains without costly re-structuring exercises.
• The nightmare of keeping multiple paper copies of changing documentation is eliminated. So are the paper and physical distribution costs ( very significant in some companies).

3. Total and Instant Key Performance Indication

• Management derive more value from Standards.
• Real business value gained from data acquired.

4. Full Auditable Security

• Inherent data security.
• Complete traceability on business processes.
• Reduce compliance costs.

5. Winning Additional Business

• Greater responsiveness brings improved customer service.
• Handle customer complaints and queries efficiently.
• Adherence to formal standards can bring competitive advantage.

 

6. Deploying Corporate Standards

• Straightforward deployment and dissemination of key corporate standards.
• Centralised control, even over WANs. No data duplication or replication (expensive, error prone processes).
• Excellent security and disaster recovery.
• System scaleability - go from a single user or small LAN implementation to an enterprise wide network with no change of system architecture.

7. Productivity Gains

• True client/server architecture brings high system performance.
• A highly configurable environment means procedures and workflow can be optimised to suit your working methods.
• The inbuilt messaging and links to external e-mail ensure that staff are taken directly to those issues which require attention.
• Generally increased efficiency means time gained can be directed to real process improvement.

8. Avoiding Costly Mistakes

• Users only access relevant and up to date procedures.
• 100% accuracy - no more lost documents or procedures.

9. Intangible Benefits

• Greater employee involvement and sense of process 'ownership'.
• Employees are able to play a constructive role in improving systems.

10. Why Workbench Software Represents Great Value

• Inherent ease of use minimises user operational training.
• System wide context sensitive Help for all users.
• Economical concurrent licensing model.
• Works with existing third party software - preserve your existing investment.