Case Studies

With 9 offices throughout the UK, a combined staff of over 100, and a top 25 ranking in PR Week's Top 150 PR companies, Harrison Cowley stands as one of the most significant PR and corporate communications agencies in the United Kingdom.

The company, formed over 40 years ago in Bristol, was previously part of the Saatchi and Saatchi group, and is now the largest company within the prestigious Huntsworth marketing communications group. A specialist in corporate and consumer PR, Harrison Cowley boasts a client-base full of household brands, including Sainsbury's, Camelot, Boeing and Land Rover.

However, the pressures of such a high volume of work, geographical spread and continuing expansion were pushing the company's whole IT infrastructure to the limit, and the cracks were beginning to show...

It takes some kind of stamina for any business to have survived since 1948 as solicitors' practice R.L. Edwards & Partners has. Perhaps the legal profession is more stable than most, but in 56 years of business you're going to encounter your fair share of bumps along the way, whatever you do.

By early 2003, R.L. Edwards stood as not only one of the longest established firms in Wales but also with 5 offices and around sixty staff one of the largest in the Bridgend County Borough. They were also about to embark on a systems review that would seriously test their adaptability by tackling one of the most fundamental and far reaching technological and cultural changes the business had encountered in its long history

Sedgemoor College Ltd, based in Ilminster, Somerset, is the UK's leading provider of Children's Special Education and Residential Care facilities. Sedgemoor started trading in the South West in 1988. Since then it has grown into a national provider, with over 65 residential properties and 14 schools providing highly focused care and education services to children with a wide array of behavioral difficulties and complex health needs.