25 March 2010
The search is over, now the journey begins. I've paid over the money and all I want is to get my greedy paws on the software.
Who won the race? Who was I most impressed with? Digita ticked all the boxes for me.
I would like to give some credit to those involved in my decision, and without whose advice I would still be lost in thought (apologies to anyone I've missed here)....
Will Lofthouse - Digita Sales Consultant. Extremely patient through 2 demos, and answered all my questions throughout the past 2 weeks.
Steve Borwell-Fox (Borwell Limited). Gave me his time to go through my rationale for the decision and what I should be thinking about. He provides bespoke software himself, so I reckon he knows what he's talking about.
Ian Morgan and "Pillowmay" - for their advice by phone and e-mail, and for being such great advocates for Digita.
Last, but not least, my long-suffering husband. He has had to sit through many evenings of me discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each of the systems. He deserves a large glass of wine tonight, and hopefully will be back out of therapy soon!!
For the SAGE fan, my apologies. I didn't look at them during this beauty parade. When I was first setting-up they were very inflexible on price, and didn't really meet my needs at the time. I may have to use them in the future - so if anyone from SAGE is reading this I'm sure your software is wonderful, I just didn't look at it.
IRIS was a very close second-place, and certainly won on market dominance, and I did consider them as I know a lot of people who use it, and love it. The end decision was influenced by the quality of the demo and look of the software, comparison with key features of different systems, and also price - not just this year, but going forward.
I will be SO looking forward to converting all my client data over onto DIGITA in the next few weeks, and will now have lots of spare time while the system does everything for me. (That was meant as a joke before I get lots of comments about living in cloud cuckoo land, I know it doesn't make the tea - yet).
Now I'd better start on my presentation for the Malvern Small Business Forum - more to follow in a future blog. Have a great weekend all,
Liz
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