The Science Museum Group (SMG) a world-leading collection of British science museums has selected Australia’s largest enterprise Software as a Service company TechnologyOne to modernise and transform its existing financial business system.
The Science Museum Group attracts an average of five million visitors each year. With around 1,000 employees and over 500 volunteers, the group required a robust and intuitive solution that would enable the finance team and other users, to access real-time information quickly and efficiently anywhere – on any device.
Jane Ellis, Director of Corporate Services at Science Museum Group explained that: “As an organisation in the cultural sector we recognise the importance of actively responding to the challenges that lie ahead. With an increased requirement to generate income and make more efficient use of resources, we felt that our existing finance system no longer met our needs. We knew that multiple workarounds were being used in order to deliver financial outputs and all too often these were manual and time-consuming processes. Furthermore, we wanted a user-friendly system, accessible from any device, with real-time reporting for our end users.”
The new solution has now gone live and provides the Science Museum Group with an intuitive system, that allows both finance and non-finance users to easily interrogate real-time data, quickly produce reports and efficiently make strategic decisions.
“TechnologyOne demonstrated their ability to meet all of our requirements and provide a solution on time and to budget which delivers against our long-term goals of innovation and transformation. The new solution goes some way to enabling the Group to realise its digital first vision, as well as being adaptable and complying with current legislation.” Concluded Jane Ellis.
TechnologyOne Chief Operating Officer, Stuart MacDonald said: “The Science Museum Group stands among several new world-leading customers that have chosen TechnologyOne’s Software as a Service offering to transform their business”.
“The Science Museum Group’s new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution from TechnologyOne has now gone live; empowering the group to streamline their financial operations to support their growth,” Mr MacDonald said.
Anwen Robinson, UK Operating Officer at TechnologyOne, commented: “The public sector is an increasingly challenging environment to operate in so implementing the right SaaS technologies that are both flexible and enable the organisation to future-proof is vital. As the most significant group of science and innovation museums worldwide, it stands to reason that the Science Museum Group is embracing financial transformation to ensure it inspires interactive science for decades to come.”
