Patech implemented the Oracle E-Business Suite for the Assessment and Qualification Alliance (AQA) in 2004. Since then, AQA had contracted Patech to assess how the Finance and HR systems could be extended to facilitate to the payment of examiners. The study provided detailed plans and designs on how this could be successfully achieved. Consequently, AQA commissioned Patech to implement the proposed solution that will integrate the payment of 35,000 examiner's fees and expenses into Oracle E-Business Suite. The project is currently underway with a projected Go Live for October 2008.

Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA)

AQA is the largest awarding body in England. It is an independant company and a charity which means their activities are not for profit. AQA's sole income comes from examinations' fees which is invested and any surplus is ploughed back into furthering AQA research, developing AQA specifications and improving AQA examinations and assessment services.

Vocalink pioneered electronic payments over four decades and has been a driving force in electronic transaction ever since. The organisation provides real-time payment capability to the UK. Following the implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite, Vocalink were keen to provide training to their users in a more interactive approach. Patech were assigned to provide training on the Oracle User Productivity Kit. Upon successful training, Vocalink can now generate job aids, training manuals, cheat sheets etc which will save time on writing manually.

Vocalink Limited

Vocalink was created on July 2nd 2007. The group brings together the market leaders in electronic payments and transactions. In 2005 Voca and LINK Interchange Network joined forces to deliver the UK's Faster Payments service. The joint venture, Immediate Payments Limited, was created and they began working together to bring real-time payment capability to the UK. Both companies have impeccable service records, the confidence of the financial community and the passion to move the banking industry forward.

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham currently use a range of Oracle E-Business Suite modules including Financials, HR, and Purchasing. The Government recognises that councils can save considerable sums of money by implementing electronic procurement. Automating procurement process will save time and resources. As a result the Council were keen to implement Oracle i-Procurement and also integration to the IDeA marketplace in order to deliver cost saving benefits. With a strong presence in the local government marketplace, Patech beat off competition to secure the contract. Patech will introduce Oracle i-Procurement to the council’s Oracle E-Business Suite solution along with the integration to IDeA. The planned Go Live is December 2007.

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is one of London’s borough councils situated in the east of London. It lies on the North Bank of the River Thames and caters for a population of 165,700 citizens.

Experian UK Limited
Experian is a global leader in providing information, analytical tools and marketing services to organisations and consumers to help manage the risk and reward of commercial and financial decisions.

Duraflex Limited
Duraflex is one of the largest extruders of PVCU profiles in the UK, supplying householders, builders, developers, local authorities and installers. It is part of the Masco Group of Companies, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of brand-name consumer products for the home improvement and new construction market. With headquarters in Taylor, Michigan, Masco employs approximately 57,000 people with worldwide sales of over $12.8 billion.

Patech will also be providing on-going support for the University’s financial and procurement environment.

Staffordshire University
Staffordshire University has a long and proud history of providing high quality, progressive and inclusive higher education for people from across Staffordshire, the region, the UK and the rest of the world. Operating from two main campuses in Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford and a co-funded University Centre in Lichfield, the University accommodates 16,000 students from the UK and around the world which gives a vibrant cultural mix combining a diversity of ages, backgrounds, cultures, nationalities and lifestyles – a truly international centre of learning.

Durham County Council
It is Durham County Council’s mission statement to “Make County Durham the best place in which to live, work and bring up a family.” The council was established, along with other County Councils in England and Wales in 1888. It is one of the largest employers in the County with over 17,000 employers working in a number of service areas.

Sandwell & W Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK with a reputation for excellent staff who provide high quality care from three hospitals:

• City Hospital in Birmingham
• Sandwell General Hospital in West Bromwich
• Rowley Regis Community Hospital in Rowley Regis

It is the Trust’s vision to work in partnership with the local health and social care communities to provide the very best in healthcare services for the 21st Century.

Morecambe Bay Hospitals NHS Trust
Morecambe Bay provides a range of healthcare services to a population of 350,000 covering some 1,000 sq miles around Barrow-in-Furness, Morecambe and Kendal.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Addenbroooke’s, part of CUH is a local hospital, the teaching hospital for the University of Cambridge, a centre for specialist services, and a leader in research and development.

St Helens Council
St Helens Council has eagerly embraced the new roles and challenges from the drive to modernise local government in this country. The council is focused on strong, confident community leadership, close partnership working, ambition to improve, willingness to innovate and resolve to deliver. St Helens Council remains responsiveness to its communities’ needs and concerns and is focused on delivering a modern, vibrant economy for the people of St Helens.

Derby City Council
Derby is a unitary council which means it provides all local government services within city boundaries. These include education, social services, highways and transportation, arts and cultural events, refuse collection and recycling, and parks. Derby City Council is a democratic organisation with 51 councillors representing 17 wards. Derby Homes is an arm’s length management company created by Derby CC to maintain and improve its council houses and estates. The organisation is non-profit making and is 100% owned and controlled by Derby CC.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is made up of two of London’s most well known teaching hospitals – Guy’s and St Thomas’ – and promotes 750,000 patient contacts in acute and specialist hospital services every year.

Patech have successfully delivered an Oracle E-Business Suite based finance and procurement solution as part of an eight year managed services arrangement with the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust (RBFT). Previously known as the Royal Berskhire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust, the clinet had sought a finance, purchasing, e-commerce and corporate performance management solution to meet the needs of the user community and to deliver significant cost savings and efficiency benefits. The trust was awarded Foundation Trust status in 2006, and was renamed RBFT. With its newly found status, the Trust was keen to get the new system up and running in time for the financial year. Patech implemented the NHS Best Practice Template with RBFT to ensure all requirements were met and all queries were addressed resulting in the delivery of the Oracle E-Business Suite solution within the timeframe.

Patech have also installed Oracle Daily Business Intelligence along with Patech's Discoverer based NHS Reporting Pack to improve the Trust's reporting capabilities. The Patech reporting pack is a suite of reports tailored to the needs of the NHS. For further informaiton, please contact Mano Ladhar.

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust - The Royal Berkshire Hospital was opened in 1839 whilst the Battle Hospital opened in 1867. The two hospitals came together in 1993 to form the core of the NHS Trust. The Trust was awarded Foundation Trust status in 2006 and continues to provide acute hospital services to the people of West Berkshire and specialist services to a wider population.

One of Patech's longest customers has selected Patech to undertake further enhancement and development at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust (SWBH). Currently operating at R11.5.8 on a windows platform, the Trust recognised the benefits and functionality available from an upgrade to R11.5.10CU2. Patech have been assigned to initially migrate the existing solution from a Windows platform across onto a Linux operating system. SWBH will now enjoy a more stable environment providing more uptime and a functionally richer solution. Patech will also upgrade the Oracle E-Business Suite from R11.5.8 to R11.5.10CU2 thereby allowing access to greater functionality available in the latest release. Patech will also asist SWBH with their reporting capabilities by installing Oracle Daily Business Intelligence along with Patech's Discoverer based NHS Reporting Pack. The Patech reporting pack is a suite of reports tailored to the needs of the NHS. For further information, please contact Mano Ladhar. The project has a planned delivery of early 2007.

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust - Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the United Kingdom with a reputation for excellent staff who provide high quality care from three hospitals: City Hospital in Birmingham; Sandwell General Hospital in West Bromwich, Rowley Regis Community Hospital in Rowley Regis.

Swindon Borough Council was keen to implement a solution that enabled the council to facilitate the use of catalogues and electronic transactions. The council’s vision was to deliver bottom line cost savings of £3.75 million in three years by re-engineering purchasing and automating the processing of 152,000 invoices each year. Swindon BC was also keen to implement electronic procurement and paperless ordering, invoicing and payment in line with the government’s Priority Service and National Strategy transformation agenda. With a wealth of public sector expertise, the council had awarded Patech to implement Oracle’s best practice purchasing applications. The solution delivered, on time and budget, enabled the council to automate 80% of purchasing transactions for goods, works and services using Oracle Procurement’s online catalogue-based selection and workflow routed electronic approval processes.

Swindon Borough Council
In fifty years Swindon has developed from a railway town of 75,000 residents to a major regional centre where 200,000 people live and work. Swindon BC, a unitary council since 1997, is the largest employer in the area with 8,500 staff. The council is working in partnership with other public sector agencies and service providers, including health, police, fire and the voluntary and independent sectors with the ambition to create a first class community supported by Swindon Borough Council.

Lifesource Collaborative Procurement Hub
Lifesource provides a strategic purchasing function for all member organisations. It realises improved value for money through volume discount standardisation and improved management through the supply chain by adapting lean technical and benchmarking against the best.

West Midlands SHA Collaborative Procurement Hub
More recently (October 1st 2006), Lifesource has merged with two neighbouring procurement hubs to form the West Midlands SHA Collaborative Procurement Hub. Along with Healthcare Purchasing Consortium and the West Midlands Procurement Alliance, the new organisation aims to deliver cash-release savings in the order of £17million per annum across Trusts in the area they serve.

The Patech NHS Template is a series of pre-configured processes designed to deliver benefit to all NHS customers through least cost; shortest implementation time, and best practice. The template allows Patech to address the NHS business requirements and maps the Oracle E-Business Suite accordingly. For more information please email Info@Patech-Solutions.com.

Under the guidance of Mark Rosser, Patech were awarded a 5 year hosted managed services contract to deliver a finance, procurement and output document solution for the Trust. The Patech team are currently working on the initial stages of the implementation.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Addenbrooke’s, part of CUH is a local hospital, the teaching hospital for the University of Cambridge, a centre for specialist services, and a leader in research and development.

St Helens Council
St Helens Council has eagerly embraced the new roles and challenges from the drive to modernise local government in this country. The council is focused on strong, confident community leadership, close partnership working, ambition to improve, willingness to innovate and resolve to deliver. St Helens Council remains responsive to its communities’ needs and concerns and is focused on delivering a modern, vibrant economy for the people of St Helens.

Derby City Council / Derby Homes
Derby is a unitary council which means it provides all local government services within city boundaries. These include education, social services, highways and transportation, arts and cultural events, refuse collection and recycling, and parks. Derby CC is a democratic organisation with 51 councillors representing 17 wards.

Derby Homes is an arm’s length management company created by Derby CC to maintain and improve its council houses and estates. The organisation is non-profit making and is 100% owned and controlled by Derby City Council.

Managed by Stuart Henry, the upgrade will now provide the University with the most current Oracle E-Business Suite solution operating on an Oracle 10g database underpinned by Sun Solaris 10 operating system. The new Oracle solution will enable the University to consider new functionality such as streamlining and automating travel spend (Oracle i-Expenses), self service requisitioning (Oracle i-Procurement), and web based analysis and reporting (Oracle Daily Business Intelligence).

University of Sunderland
A dynamic, modern university with high standards of teaching and research and a growing reputation as the university for enterprise, employment and opportunity.

The Oracle Multiple Reporting Currencies (MRC) feature allows you to report and maintain accounting at the transaction level, in more than one functional currency. The Oracle Global Accounting Engine (AX) program provides a subledger accounting system. For more information on either of these two products please contact Patech on Info@Patech-Solutions.com.

Rural Payments Agency
RPA is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). RPA is a major delivery body for Defra, providing a range of services in support of the department’s objectives. The key services the RPA provides are making rural payments, carrying out rural inspections, and livestock tracing.

University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is Britain’s largest single-site university with a proud history of achievement and an ambitious agenda for the future.

Following on the growing presence in the healthcare market place, Patech have been selected by the Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust (RBBH)to provide a Managed Service for the Trust's finance and procurement activities. The RBBH in Reading provides acute hospital services to the people of west Berkshire and specialist services to a wider population. With an annual budget of £185million, RBBH sought a finance, purchasing, e-commerce and corporate performance management solution to meet the needs of the user community and to deliver significant cost savings and efficiency benefits. Following a thorough bidding process, Patech were selected to provide an eight year managed service and is currently underway to deliver a live operational soluton by April 2007.

Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust - The Royal Berkshire Hospital was opened in 1839 whilst the Battle Hospital was built in 1867. The two hospitals came together in 1993 to form the core of the current NHS Trust providing acute hospital services to the people of west Berkshire and specialist services to a wider population.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is now enjoying significant benefits as a result of the Patech driven implementation of the Oracle E-Business Suite.

"Oracle and Patech have helped us become a real-time enterprise with improved financial visibility and control, streamlined reporting, auditing and compliance, lower management overhead", Julie Duffy, FARMS (Finance and Accounting Records Managed Service) Systems Manager, CPS

The CPS has increased the productivity of its finance team by 30%, cut administration overhead and reduced closure time from three days to 10 mintues by consolidating financial management and reporting on Oracle. Responsible for prosecuting criminal cases investigated by the police in England and Wales, the CPS is committed to harnessing technology to drive business improvements and generate cost savings to reinvest in frontline services.

Patech implemented the Oracle E-Business Suite providing a high performance web enabled financial management platform allwoing COPS staff in London, Birmingham and York offices to share accurate, real-time information. As a result, process cycle times have been cut and procurement efficiency has improved, with purhcase orders now used for 20% of all purhcases made.

Financial managers at the CPS use Oracle Discoverer to drill down into financial information and interrogate data at the desktop for improved budgeting, planning and decision making. Data can be viewed in multiple ways to provide input for internal and external reports and respond to requests for information.

"Before using Oracle Discoverer we had to stop work on other projects if a parliamentary question came in, to ensure that we could respond to it within the 48 hour deadline", said Julie Duffy. "We now respond to typical questions in just 25 minutes. This has resulted in dramatic productivity improvements for our team. Oracle Discoverer also enables us to provide timely and accessible information in compliance with the Freedom of Information Act".

The CPS chose Oracle for its market leadership as the preferred financial management solution for public sector organisations.

"Oracle Financials is widely used across central government departments which helps us interact with them and means we have access to a large pool of Oracle expertise", said Matt Ralphs, Oracle Systems Development Manager, CPS.

Patech met all the criteria set by the CPS and demonstrated how its public sector experience enabled it to meet the specific demands of government organisations. "Reference customers testified to the depth of Patech's skills and expert consulting services", said Duffy. "We evaluated several system implementers but Patech offered the best value for money".

Since the initial implementation of the Oracle E-Business Suite, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (formerly know as Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust (Teaching)) had been operating their financials and procurement solution at R11.5.7. Oracle Internet Procurement has steadily been rolled out to more departments and now has seen the Trust with over 300 on-line requisitioners. This has now meant the Trust has been able to eliminate error-prone paper processes, control maverick spend and ultimately cut transaction overhead. The Trust, a Managed Service client, awarded Patech the contract to upgrade the solutuion to R11.5.10CU2. This will ensure a more functionality rich solution is in place prior to considering new features available, for example, Oracle Daily Business Intelligence. The upgrade is targeted to Go Live inMay 2006 providing a more user friendly solution for the Trust.

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust - Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust is one of 32 Foundation Trusts in Engalnd. It is a dynamic organisation which has evolved incrementally from its origins a s fever hospital and sanatorium on the outskirts of Birmingham, Little Bromwich Hospital. In 1995, the Trust supported Solihull District General Hospital and a year later became the merged Trust of Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust (Teaching) in 1996. In April 2005, the Trust achieved Foundation status.

Operating at R11.0.3, the London South Bank University (LSBU)had experienced a major setback with their Oracle HR environment. The university's human resource database had been corrupted and damaged to the extent that the only data stored was on backup media. Consequently LSBU assigned Patech to undertake a database recovery procedure to restore the University's R11.0.3 instance. Following on from this, Patech subsequently upgraded the solution to themost current release of R11.5.10CU2. In line with the new release, Patech provided training around new functionality within the Oracle HR solution, and also further enhancements to the system. The system successfully went live in February 2006 and now LSBU look forward to planning the next stage of development.

London South Bank University - LSBU was founded in 1892 as the Borough Polytechnic and amalgamated with four other colleges in 1970 to become South Bank Polytechnic. In June 1992, it was granted University statusby the Privy Council. With nearly 18,000 students, the university is one of the largest in London. It is a progressive, dynamic instituion combining traditions of excellence in vocational and applied subjects with specialist industrial and professional links.

Following on from the recent win at Shropshire Healthcare Finance Consortium, Patech have successfully signed up Lifesource to the consortium. The Lifesource Collaborative Procurement Hub is a new NHS agency providing a strategic procurement and supply chain service to 18 organisations across Shropshire and Staffordshire. Formed in February 2005, Lifesource was keen to gain a better understanding of their customers' spend. Patech was awarded the contract to implement an Oracle E-Business Suite based solution which will provide Lifesource the ability to:

The spending tracking solution will Go Live and fully operational by June 2006.

Lifesource - Lifesource provides a strtegic purchasing function for all member organisations. It realises improved value for money through volume discount standardisation and improved management through the supply chain by adapting lean technical and benchmarking against the best.

were operating a managed service that was due to terminate thus required a new solution that met the evolving needs of the user community. The consortium sought a replacement solution that met the needs of the Trusts which included improvements in both business process and efficiency savings.

Following a successful tender process, Patech was awarded the contract in Decmber 2005. Patech are currently working to deliver a complete remotely hosted Managed Services offering by October 2006. Peter Dunn has ensured Patech Managed Services will be supporting the environment for a minimum of five years.

The Consortium - The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust was formed in 2003 with the merger of Shropshire's two acute hospitals, the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and The Princess Royal Hospital in Telford. The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust is a specialist hospital providing elective orthpaedic surgery and musculo-skeletal medical services. The Shropshire County and Telford & Wrekin Primary Care Trusts were established on April 1st 2003 and are responsible for the delivery of health service to their respective populations.