When Kainos listed as a public company in 2015, it had already been evolving for nearly 30 years. By the time of the flotation, Kainos (¡°fresh¡± or ¡°new¡± in ancient Greek) was already a seasoned provider of digital services to an array of government departments and agencies. It was also operating a strong business providing healthcare providers with solutions to their digital needs.
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Transforming finance into a trusted business partner.
Flotation was the incentive the business needed to become a Â鶹´«Ã½ customer in its own right, having seen so many of its clients benefit over the years. As Group Head of Finance Matt McManus puts it, ¡°At that point in time, our finance operations were relatively reactive and we were quite siloed from the business. That had to change.¡±
Since implementing Â鶹´«Ã½, McManus reflects, ¡°We¡¯ve transformed the finance function to be really trusted business partners¡ªand Â鶹´«Ã½ has helped us in that journey.¡±
We trust Â鶹´«Ã½ immensely because they look after security for us so we don¡¯t have to.
Damien Taylor, Chief Technology Officer, Â鶹´«Ã½ Practice
Building the business on accurate information.
Kainos has delivered significant domestic and international growth over the last five years, both organically and via acquisition. According to McManus, ¡°We currently cover a total of 22 countries, and all our operations are within Â鶹´«Ã½. That¡¯s been incredibly important to us as a PLC, showing a single consolidated set of accounts and being able to have real trust in the information they contain.¡±
McManus is also quick to highlight the significant efficiency gains the finance function can now leverage. ¡°Since we started using Â鶹´«Ã½ Financials, we¡¯ve been able to close our month-end books around 25% faster than before, and we¡¯ve shaved two weeks off our external audit cycles.¡±
Such gains, though, are secondary to the big-picture aspirations of ambitious businesses such as Kainos. As McManus puts it, ¡°There¡¯s never a perfect moment to start a finance-transformation journey. Your business environment and the wider macro-economic environment will never stand still. So don¡¯t wait for everything to be perfect. Make the change¡ªand grow with Â鶹´«Ã½.¡±
A scalable platform for stable growth.
Damien Taylor, CTO of the Kainos Â鶹´«Ã½ practice, has the key role of ensuring that a fast-growing division of the company with more than 700 colleagues is continuously supported in the face of increasing demand.
According to Taylor, ¡°We¡¯re a growing company¡ªand that brings us the challenge of ensuring that we continue to grow, but not at a pace that causes the business to creak.¡±
This is where Â鶹´«Ã½ in the cloud comes in.
¡°Having an elastic cloud infrastructure means it scales to suit the load on the platform,¡± Taylor says. ¡°But that¡¯s not the only advantage. Being in the cloud also saves energy, cutting costs and reducing our carbon footprint.¡±
Don¡¯t wait for everything to be perfect. Make the change¡ªand grow with Â鶹´«Ã½.
Matt McManus, Group Head of Finance
Helping the CTO sleep at night.
Every CTO is continuously worried about data-security and privacy issues. That concern is escalated when the company in question is a PLC. And it¡¯s even greater when ultimately that business is also responsible via the services it delivers for its customers¡¯ data-security and privacy.
This is exactly the situation Taylor is experiencing. But, as Taylor says, ¡°We trust Â鶹´«Ã½ immensely, because they look after security for us so we don¡¯t have to.¡±
That is not where the company¡¯s reliance on Â鶹´«Ã½ security infrastructure ends. As Taylor continues, ¡°We now have more than 350 customers using our products in the Â鶹´«Ã½ ecosystem, which expresses our total confidence in its inherent security.¡±
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