The National Trust

The National Trust needed to ensure that their ERP system delivery was on time, on budget and delivered the value that their supporters and staff deserved. This required a large implementation team that needed immediate and flexible access to 5 UBW environments to ensure that they could prototype and build the system in a way that suited a large, professional and collaborative team. QuickThink Cloud provisioned these environments over the space of just two days, delivering a flexible, secure and high-performing system to The National Trust.

Working with QuickThink Cloud and Unit4, The National Trust used QuickThink Cloud's platform to quickly and efficiently develop the ERP system and all the many interfaces it would require to function in a large, complex and highly accountable organisation. 20-minute system restore / refresh cycles, delivered tirelessly by the QuickThink Cloud support team, allowed for this, freeing up the project teams to maximise the use of their time.

The UBW systems were then to be transposed into the National Trust's IT estate as part of a wider initiative to bring together all their systems and integrations in an ambitious project. QuickThink Cloud, a trusted partner by this stage, was chosen to complete this task as well as provide our exceptional on-prem UBW Technical Managed Service to continue to support these systems after their migration into the National Trust's wider systems estate. This was done swiftly and without any issues or delays to the project.

The previous disparate systems that The National Trust dealt with were consolidated and enhanced through the introduction of a centralised ERP system such as Unit4 Business World. QuickThink Cloud's demonstration of its ability to provision (even temporary) cloud environments within 24 hours proved valuable to The National Trust, ensuring that money was not wasted on consultants that did not have access to systems.

Furthermore, transposing QuickThink Cloud's On-Premises Technical Managed Service allowed the National Trust to ensure that their Unit4 Business World system was managed by the experts, allowing its staff and volunteers to concentrate on doing what they are best at; preserving the nation's heritage and open spaces.