Great Customer Feedback Recorded from Addedo's User Conference in London!
2009-01-07 : London, UK
Encouraged by the unprecedented success of the yearly Controller & Consolidator User Group Conference in Switzerland, Addedo recently held its inaugural UK User Conference. The objective of this one day conference, that took place on December 11th, was to strengthen the UK Consolidation community. And it seems we did!
The conference topics covered had been compiled using input and feedback from the user community as well as Addedo. The purpose was to mutually help and inspire each other as well as form a more strong and constructive dialogue with the supplier (IBM Cognos) of software and services.
Judging from the many enthusiastic users it seems we managed to fulfil our promise of delivery.
Mr. Ham Mistry, Group Financical Accountant at Lavendon gave similar feedback to others, “Thank you and your colleagues for arranging the user conference! Both Adam and I found it very useful and insightful both in terms of what we learnt from Addedo and other users. We will definitely try to be back next year!”
Martin Rafferty, Group Financial Manager, from Brammer fills in. “First of all, a big thank you for inviting me to this User Day. I found it extremely helpful to sit in a room with both yourself and colleagues who have been through the whole show from the Frango days and also with such a wide range of users.”
All in all there were over 30 customers attending the London venue, everybody outstandingly engaging, enthusiastic and contributing. To put the number of customers attending into perspective, IBM Cognos had a similar amount of customers attending at their highly profiled event Finance Forum early this spring. Arnold Warhonowicz, Consultancy Manager Addedo UK sums it up “I am very pleased with the way the event turned out! Not only due to the fact that the number of customers attending exceeded our expectations, was it very rewarding to share everybodyÂ’s enthusiasm over our initiative. We got a great deal of inspiration for input for next yearÂ’s User Day.”
Arnold Warhonowicz ends by saying, “there were many contributors making this event a success and I would like to especially thank in no special order, Natascja Barsanti from MAN Group, Clive Plimsoll from Babcock and Chris Payne from Cascal for their contribution about how they get more out of the system. Many of the participants found it valuable to get an update of the future development of IBM Cognos Controller. Thank you Fredrik Sandberg Product Management IBM Cognos for providing that.”
“This is a wonderful example on how a proactive partner like Addedo work to benefit its customer” concludes Johannes Westerg?en, CEO, Addedo Group.
Contact:
Arnold Warhonowicz, Consultancy Manager, Addedo UK
Mobile: +44 7809 899458
arnold.warhonowicz@addedo.com
Johannes Westergarden, Country Manager, Addedo Sweden
Mobile +46 70 3217733
johannes.westergarden@addedo.com
About Addedo
Addedo is an independent consultancy. Our consultants work for the CFOs and Group Finance function. We identify and implement improvements in partnership with our clients. Through information technology and process changes we help transform these improvements into better corporate performance. We serve a large client base ranging from emerging businesses to the largest Fortune 3500. Common for many of our clients is that they want to improve and support their reporting and consolidation process.
Addedo has offices in Sweden and Switzerland and the UK. This is where the bulk of our customers are located, even though many of our consultants are engaged in projects throughout Europe.
We strive to be the pan European consultancy partner to Group Finance.
Our cooperation with Addedo works extremeley well. The people are very responsive and knowledgable. And our implementation of Cognos Controller was completed on budget and on time.
-Sybille Streiff, Controlling, Oetiker Group