Return On Investment
At 4Front we have a clear focus on maximizing the value that we bring to any solution. Our business has always been founded on the strong belief that our clients should always clearly profit from engaging our services. We are also very aware that the cost of ownership can be far greater than just the cost of the initial development and our solutions are strongly biased towards minimising these costs.
4Front Cost Benefits
Reduced Risk of Failure - As specialists in Financial Control we have successfully delivered solutions to all common controlling functions. Having succeeded in doing it before, we know how to do it again!
Quicker to Market - By combining business experience with our core products, a large element of delivering solutions is configuration rather than design and build. Faster product delivery allows you to realise cost benefits sooner and reduces overall costs.
Reduced Internal Management Overhead - Through common clear goals and re-use of standard management tools and documentation.
Focus on value added priorities - As a core part of our development approach, tasks are prioritised according to the benefit our clients will derive, within cost, time and general resource constraints.
Quality of Service - Doing it right first time, whilst keeping an eye on future expandability.
Training - Training your staff with the knowledge and skills to maintain and expand your solutions in the future. This enables you to be in control of your ongoing cost of ownership.
Our Solution Cost Benefits
The Microsoft Platform - 4Front solutions require less investment in new environments and their associated resources by utilising standard functionality across the Microsoft range running on standard hardware. Licensing requirements are minimised together with the costs of support and acquiring development skills.
Automated - 4Front solutions focus on automating labour intensive and repetitive tasks to deliver immediate and tangible savings.
Data Warehousing - a centralised, verified, rich data source, easily accessible across the enterprise provides for more reliable business information and reduced storage costs.
Scalable - Applying the same business principles and good processing rules to all solutions, irrespective of the initial scale of the solution, means that increasing the reach of a project does not waste any initial investment.
Flexible Graphical User Interfaces - Not only do our solutions have rich, intuitive interfaces, but they also carry a level of consistency across the enterprise delivering one single application to the whole business. This immediately generates cost reductions associated with avoiding key individual dependencies and staff training.
Re-usable - Due to the fact that we have developed solutions that touch on all aspects of Financial Control, our solutions adopt a "best-practice" approach which can be re-used.
Responsive - Use of core common components and technologies provides ease of maintenance and reduces the costs and timescales associated with change.
Robust, Reliable and Auditable - 4Front solutions not only reduce additional support costs and downtime, but also the knock-on costs from publishing inaccurate data. In addition to our solutions being constructed to the highest standards, we also incorporate fault tolerance, event and error trapping, together with general administration features, to alert support and allow for remedial action.
