Bristol, UK., September 23, 2010, UNIT4 Business Software Ltd, the UK division of UNIT4, the world’s leading provider of ERP for fast changing organisations, today announced that it has joined The Prince’s Mayday Network, a group of businesses whose aim is to share experiences and lead the transformation towards a sustainable future.
Created in the United Kingdom by HRH, The Prince of Wales in 2007, The Prince’s Mayday Network aims to inspire, engage, support and challenge businesses to work together towards a sustainable future. This is achieved through activities such as workshops, webinars and other events run by industry and environmental leaders to give Mayday businesses a head start in tackling their carbon footprints and other environmental impacts.
As well as its own rigorous corporate responsibility aims and achievements, UNIT4 works with organisations throughout the UK advising them on implementing successful green strategies. Recently, it launched Sustain4, an environmental performance management solution designed to help organisations understand and improve their environmental and business performance. Developed in partnership with global environmental impact specialists, Trucost, it makes use of their unique database and model to rapidly assess and benchmark an organisation’s environmental impacts based on readily available financial and business data. This by-passes months or years of research normally required for such analysis.
“The pressure to adopt green business practices will only increase as the evidence for supporting adoption mounts up,” said Anwen Robinson, Managing Director of UNIT4 Business Software. “For the sake of the environment and to comply with initiatives like the Carbon Reduction Commitment, companies must act now. We fully support the values and aims of The Prince’s Mayday Network and are looking forward to contributing to Network initiatives. We can use our experiences from the business scenarios we see every day to engage with organisations, and further the Network’s cause.”
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About UNIT4
UNIT4 is a global business software and services company aimed at helping dynamic organisations to embrace change simply, quickly and cost effectively in a market sector it calls 'Businesses Living IN Change' (BLINC)™. The Group incorporates a number of the world’s leading change embracing software brands including Agresso Business World and CODA financial management software.
Agresso Business World is our flagship ERP suite for mid-sized services intensive organisations. It is widely acknowledged for delivering ongoing, post-implementation changes without the typical external IT costs and services that cost firms huge sums of money each year. This is achieved thanks to its powerful VITA™ architecture, which is unmatched in the ERP world.
CODA Financials is our award-winning suite of best-of-class financial management software designed to integrate with your industry- and company-specific applications. CODA’s LINK™ architecture sets it apart from ordinary accounting systems by providing a financial information backbone for companies with fast changing and mixed application environments. It is a global accounting solution for mid-to large sized organisations, offering a "no compromise" approach to financial modelling, process control and application choice.
In the UK we focus strongly on the public sector where we are a leading provider to local government, Further and Higher Education, Emergency Services and Health organisations. In the commercial sectors Financial Services, Retail and Media and Publishing are key markets. Overall we aim to be the UK’s foremost business software company, providing solutions that transform the delivery of public services and comprehensively support commercial organisation in their ability to adapt and prosper in rapidly changing environments.
UNIT4 is a top six mid-market ERP software player globally and the 2nd largest European ERP supplier. With offices in 15 European countries, as well 6 countries across North America, Asia Pacific and Africa and sales activities in several other countries, revenue of €379.4 million was realised in 2009. UNIT4 is headquartered in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands. The company has 3,456 employees (31 December 2009).
For more information, please visit: www.unit4software.co.uk and www.sustain4.com
