Business Info
	Software Information
	Key Quote
	Introduction
	The Issues
	Identifying A Replacement
	Significant Benefits To Date

Business Info

Software Information

Key Quote

"A system to us is simply an engine - what we want is ease of use, integration and flexible reporting. Coretime and Access are first class products and the link between them provides us with one engine that has the ability to service all of our needs"

Tony Carey
Managing Partner

Introduction

The Cooney Carey Group combines a firm of Chartered Accountants with a Taxation and Business Advisory service. We are a leading provider of business management, financial consultancy and accountancy services to private clients, companies and partnerships. Since our foundation in 1983, we have recognised the importance of meeting the advisory needs of the private client, together with his or her business interests.

Cooney Carey is a well-established business with significant client relationships. We are continuing to invest in our future and we will ensure that our firm is and will continue to be one of the best respected in our sector.

The Issues

Cooney Carey has been operating Keysoft Accounting Software for the last 20 years. At the time of making an initial investment in computerisation, Keysoft was the best accounting solution available locally, meeting all of our requirements with the exception of Time Recording. Working closely with Keysoft, we assisted them in developing a simple, but basic, fully integrated time recording system with some reporting functionality to meet our needs.

Having spent close to € 100,000 over the years on the Keysoft solution, in recent years it was quite clear that Keysoft were not interested in investing in this product on an ongoing basis - only if you requested, and were prepared to pay for, tailoring work. We felt we had no choice but to look for a replacement system. However, given the investment to-date, we were going to be extremely careful in changing - we would only change if we discovered a product that had all that Keysoft had and much more.

Identifying A Replacement

We spent close on 2 years reviewing systems - mainly examining what our 200+ clients were using. We knew early on in the review process that Coretime's Tempus Pro Online solution was the product for us. And with a seamless integration with Access Accounts Horizons package we made the decision to go with Coretime.

Tempus Pro Online offers everything one could ask for in terms of Time recording and reporting and with Access providing a modern integrated accounting suite we believe that we now have the "best of breed" in both solutions.

Significant Benefits To Date

"We sell time - pure and simple. The Coretime/Access solution allows us to monitor and make decisions on the "product" we sell at a very early stage in a defined project" advises Tony Carey, Managing Partner. He further adds " We now have the ability to influence and manage profitability as it happens rather than when it becomes history, when it is all too often, too late. With seamless integration between both products, our staff can concentrate on working on the data rather than inputting it."

"Coretime's interface could not be simpler to navigate and with real time management information, staff productivity has greatly improved since we adopted Tempus Pro Online" Tony adds enthusiastically.

And with a pro-active development pipeline, Tony sees many opportunities for making his life, and that of his staff, even easier.