Described as an " awesome interior" by the BCO. The 80,000 sq ft office design and build project for Roche Diagnostic’s offices in
Burgess Hill last night swept away the competition to win the Best Fit Out Award for the South of England in front of 1600 people at The Grosvenor House in London
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READING, UK. – 1st October, 2007 - FISCAL Technologies, providers of world class duplicate payment detection software and services, today announced that it has released version 2.0 of its specialist recovery audit software Duplicate Payment FinderTM.
Duplicate Payments FinderTM is an innovative software application which identifies potential duplicate payments in accounts payable data from suppliers. Using improved, proven proprietary search algorithms and sophisticated pattern matching techniques (patent pending), the programme generates a detailed report of duplicate payments. With version 2.0 it now incorporates a number of new features as well as a redesigned, more intuitive, user menu. With a refined database storage facility it allows customers to process over a 1,000,000 payment transactions per year if required.
FISCAL’s Director of Solution Development, Lesley Reeve, says “we have built in the new features based on the last 12 months of customer feedback. The user interface had the biggest overhaul, as we needed the flexibility to add new functionality without compromising its speed and simplicity. Many of our actual end-users are Accounts Payable & Audit administrators so ease of use is paramount.” Reeve also adds “in line with our new marketing programme, we have ramped up our development programme over the last 6 months and are now working on a number of exciting new projects that will benefit our customers significantly in 2008.”
David Griffiths, Director of Customer Development states “We are really pleased with version 2.0 and currently rolling it out to our customer base in the Europe and US. Those with maintenance will get a free of charge upgrade”. He also comments “So far initial customer response have been promising and we are working on a number of customer case-studies”
FISCAL Technologies is the only organisation in Europe to focus solely on duplicate payment detection software. Duplicate Payments FinderTM has been used by large organisations successfully for the last 5 years to analyse & check 100 hundred’s of millions of supplier payments for dupes
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I have been working in this field for 25 years, and I am constantly surprised by the naiveté of companies in the way they go about moving office, and the costs they are ultimately willing to commit over 10-15 years without having any idea of what they’ll need in terms of office design and build, and how critical that decision will ultimately be in the development of the business.
Office space is expensive! Get it wrong, and you will literally be paying for it for years. Your staff will be unhappy, demotivated by their surroundings, and in the long run, your business cannot reach its potential.
Consider the long-term costs to the business of acquiring a building with too much – or even too little – space. If you were to consider current rental costs in London’s West End, they’re in excess of £100, £115, £120 per square foot, and the cost of getting it wrong over 15 years could be £800 or even £1500. Multiply that by 10,000 sq ft, and you’re talking about massive overpayments of £16m before office design costs..
Let’s stick with smaller 15-year terms and suggest that £50 a square foot is a middle income rent. If you took £50 per square foot for a 5000 sq ft building and get it wrong by say, 10%, the cost overrun will be £5m over a ten year term, or £7.5m over a 15-year term.
A specialist interior office design company has a greater understanding of what an organisation’s future needs will be, and can put in place the most appropriate IT cooling and power management solutions for the organisation’s future growth.
And because it already has partnerships with organisations such as APC and Rittal, it is more likely to be able to save time and money by doing it right first time around.Let’s take a closer look at some of the costs involved. In addition to the cost of building walls and floors, the following costs have to be considered for interior office design:
In total, that’s pretty close to £50,000, just for a medium-sized, server room facility. Now, you wouldn’t ask your facilities manager to design £50,000 worth of office, kitchen, or meeting room space because that’s just not what they do. So why would you ask your communications people to put their signature against that amount of money because they ‘do’ IT?
Future for Technology and the Office Workspace
A look at the impact of good design on urban planning and the built environment. The types of space
and Interior office design demanded by companies is changing. More collaboration and team work are
required inoffices where there are ‘never enough meeting rooms’. The move away from fixed allocated
desks towards new models of workplace provision will be discussed, together withvisions for the city as
people become increasingly mobile and place independent.
How do people go about being creative? Can the working environment really enhance the creativity of
your employees, and if so, how? The BBC, Microsoft, Herman Miller, forward thinking inc and TP Bennett
set out to explore these challenges through a collaborative research project into the nature of
Creativity at Work. Annie Leeson, project director, hosts an exploration of the results and the implications
for organisations and their offices.
WorkTech North is a forum for all those involved in the future of work and the workplace as
well as technology and innovation. It follows the format of its sister event in London and
will launch at The Lowry, Salford Quays – adjacent to the site of the planned mediacity:uk.
The conference, on 29th June 2007, and a masterclass on Thursday 28th June will bring
together leaders in their field from workplace futures, real estate and technology to examine
what a media city is and what it means at a regional, national, and global level. It will also
look at the implications of convergence between the worlds of technology and office design
driven by the trends that will change the nature of how and where work takes place.
Join over 200 senior professionals from real estate, facilities, technology, executive
management, government, architecture and design.
Our company is known throughout the industry for its efficiency and common sense cost-cutting measures. Long ago, we streamlined every aspect of our corporation. We get more done with less money than most of the businesses out there, and we get better every day. Not to brag, but money saving tips from our corporation are viewed as invaluable among many of our rivals. That is why so many people get surprised when they see our office design. In a day of small cubicles, they are definitely nice by contemporary standards. We have nice office chairs and gorgeous office desks. Even our junior partners have office computer desks made out of authentic cherry wood stained a beautiful, rich, dark red.
Naturally, I have been asked why I spend so much money on office design when I’m willing to cut expenses basically everywhere else. After all, isn’t one office desk about as good as another? The answer is no. I actually discovered this trick while I was working at home on my office computer desk. At the time, I was somewhat of a cheapskate. Working as a junior executive trying to make it into the big time, I wouldn’t waste money on practically anything. I would not even spend money on nice office computer desks – I was working at the dining room table! Then one day, the stresses of not having a well set up workspace got to me. My kids were too loud, my house was too cluttered, and I was completely overwhelmed.
I set up my spare bedroom as in office space and invested in a nice office desk, executive chair, and everything else that goes with it. Suddenly, my productivity was way up! Sitting at professional looking office design just simply makes you feel more professional. It is as simple as that. You don’t want to clutter or scratch the nice wood, so you keep your supplies well-organized and arranged. You feel like a professionals, so you work like a professional, manage your time like a professional, and even dress like a professional.
This is why I decided to bring in such nice office desks. I didn’t want to hand down dress codes, and I didn’t want to lecture people on proper office decorum. I simply wanted to create an environment where professionalism was taken for granted! When you treat your employees with respect, you get results. When looked at that way, expensive office desks are a small sacrifice.
Most Brides will tell you that one of the most important aspects of their wedding day is the wedding dress. With so much thought and effort making sure the dress is perfect it’s little wonder that other less meaningful duties get put to the back burner. Therefore, in order to make sure everything runs smoothly on the big day a wedding plan is a must. Once you have successfully organised your wedding budget, it’s time to start listing jobs that need doing. With the average cost of a wedding rising year on year trying to keep to budget may seem impossible.
However, planning a cheap wedding is certainly possible, and we’ll show you how to do it…
“Bicycling has done more to emancipate woman than any one thing in the world.”
Susan B. Anthony, suffragist, 1896
The two-wheeled, diamond-frame safety bicycle (basically the same one we ride today) gave women unprecedented mobility, and contributed to their emancipation…
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