LONDON, July 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading Lobbying Organisation for UK Business Reaps Efficiency Gains 
With Integrated Financial Administration and Management Information Systems 
Provided By ST Consulting, a Microsoft Dynamics Partner in London 
http://www.stconsulting.co.uk/

The CBI, the premier lobbying organisation for UK businesses,
has gone live with Microsoft Dynamics GP Version 9 http://tr.im/uICD with
implementation and support provided by ST Consulting, a Microsoft Dynamics
partner in London.

As a London-based Microsoft Dynamics partner http://tr.im/uICG
ST Consulting provides Microsoft Dynamics GP and Microsoft Dynamics CRM
systems to a broad range of vertical markets and is also a Microsoft Gold
Certified Partner.

Since implementing Version 9 of Microsoft Dynamics, the CBI
finance team has been able to reduce time spent on routine transactional
number-crunching and accounts administration tasks and focus more on
achieving a quicker turnaround in the monthly accounting close procedure. The
new system has also enabled the CBI to provide a more dynamic financial
reporting, planning and analysis function more directly to its budget-holder
business managers and other internal and external stakeholders.

The CBI finance team selected ST Consulting, a Microsoft
Dynamics partner in London, for the company's proven technical knowledge in
accountancy as well as its Microsoft Dynamics systems expertise.

According to Sree Bhaskaran, Financial Controller at the CBI,
"The great thing about ST Consulting is the team's superior accounting
knowledge. Technical expertise in systems is, without a doubt, important in
order to set up the systems in the right way, but a good understanding of
accounting concepts, and the controls (both standard and customised) that lie
behind key accounting processes, is also vital.

"ST Consulting was able to make suggestions and think ahead in
terms of some of our accounting requirements, which is an enormous help. Our
system is now holistically integrated, flexible and responsive to the CBI's
business needs. We now have the system capability to perform additional
forecasting exercises during the year relatively easily should we wish to do
so, which is very useful in the current climate where things are changing so
quickly."

London-based Microsoft Dynamics partner, ST Consulting, also
integrated the Dynamics software with the CBI's Integra sales processing and
sales ledger system for sales of members' subscriptions and commercial
events, working closely with the Integra system provider. The integration has
cut out the duplication of effort that was present in this area of the CBI's
activities and it enables the finance team to analyse various commercial
events run by the CBI - such as seminars, conferences and annual dinners and
lunches - by event type, location and revenue and expenditure types to
evaluate and compare profit margins and report on their financial
performance.

The CBI finance team has also automated the monthly payroll
journal postings into Dynamics. Payroll information from the payroll
processing bureau is sent via Excel files which feed into an integration
journal built by London-based Microsoft Dynamics partner, ST Consulting. This
electronic journal is then checked and automatically posted into the Dynamics
general ledger thus removing the need to manually key-in the payroll data.
This has freed up some valuable finance team time which is now used to focus
on more productive work such as managing exceptions and analysis, rather than
routine transactional data entry.

Haseet Sanghrajka, Managing Director of London-based Microsoft
Dynamics partner, ST Consulting, said, "For all organisations, it is vital
that systems can talk to one another in order to provide information required
for the business operations to run smoothly. It is important to have
excellent technical capability to be able to integrate systems, but as well
it is vital to apply this knowledge in the context of the customer's business
requirements. Over the years we have built up the necessary industry and
technical expertise to ensure that we deliver the right business solution
that gets customers results."

About the CBI

The CBI is the voice of British business and its mission is to
help create and sustain the conditions in which businesses in the United
Kingdom can compete and prosper for the benefit of all. It is the premier
lobbying organisation for UK business on national and international issues.
It works with the UK government, international legislators and policy-makers
to help UK businesses compete effectively.

CBI policy is decided entirely by its members - senior
professionals from all sectors and sizes of business are directly involved in
the policy-making process. It has a network of offices around the UK and in
Beijing, Brussels and Washington which provide on-the-ground support for its
members.

For more information, please visit: http://www.cbi.org.uk

About ST Consulting (UK) Ltd

ST Consulting is a financial systems and CRM specialist
providing complete, end-to-end systems and supporting services for small and
medium-sized enterprises (SME).

ST Consulting is Microsoft Dynamics specialist providing
Microsoft Dynamics GP and Microsoft Dynamics CRM systems to a broad range of
vertical markets and is also a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

Founded in 2001, the management team has a background in
financial accounting from within a London accounting practice and has now
built up a core of over 40 customers including music publisher Ministry of
Sound, Confederation of British Industry, IT distributor Zyco and membership
organisation, The Oddfellows Friendly Society.

ST Consulting has also been providing training services to
Microsoft for the UK Dynamics GP Partner network since 2005.

For further information, please contact:
    Nicola Miller/ Kieran Kent
    The itpr Partnership
    t. +44(0)1932-57-88-00
    http://www.itpr.co.uk