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Symphony – APS and CloudCapcha, announced today a change in leadership to drive their next phase of growth. After a successful 24 years, Brian Coventry, has decided to step aside and make way for new leadership that will drive the next phase of growth. Current Chief Operating Officer, Phil Lowe, will take on the appointment of CEO of CloudCapcha & Symphony – APS, and Brian Coventry will assume the title of Founder.
In the September issue of PortrAIT magazine, we provide the AIT accounting firm members with insight into the need to review data management processes and the quality of the data that CRM and practice management systems store.
Symphony is proud to sponsor this year’s AIT UK Annual Conference (29-30 September 2021). This in-person event is now in its twelfth year and is the go-to conference for IT professionals in the accounting sector. Attendees will benefit from a mix of informative presentations, round table discussions and social activities addressing the theme – A roadmap to the future.
Accounting firms across the world face a constant challenge with gathering, maintaining and enhancing their client and prospect data – regardless of the systems they use. Chand Chudasama, Partner in the Strategic Corporate Finance team and Marketing Partner at Price Bailey had to solve the challenge of getting to the heart of the data he knew the accounting firm held.
For professional services firms, there’s significant investment in practice management software and/or a Client Relationship Management (CRM) systems. Part of any digital strategy is the need for a review of data management processes and the quality of the data that these systems store.
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Here’s how your professional services firm can achieve quality data without lifting a finger to data input.
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For many firms one of the magic wand wishes in the LPM Frontiers: Legal IT Landscapes report was the call for more automation and better gathering and use of data with the quality of data being a must. Like all businesses in the UK, we all agree that the pandemic has had lasting impact on the way our teams work.
Our CEO, Brian Coventry, has been announced as speaker at the Association for Accounting Marketing (AMM) Summit (24-26 May 2021).
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A year on from the start of lockdown in the UK and this year’s PWC 24th Annual Global CEO Survey has been launched.
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This must-read LPM Frontiers: Legal IT Landscapes 2021 report has been launched with commentary from our very own CEO, Brian Coventry. Brian talks of the curse of data lag and omission that ultimately manifests itself in missed opportunities and growth for legal firms.
Senior figures from top UK and International accounting firms took part in our first AI and the Future of Accountancy report. There’s a lot of hype surrounding AI and we wanted to cut through the noise to get a real sense of what is happening in the industry. So, we embarked on this journey to gain a deeper understanding of the future requirements of AI within leading accountancy firms.
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Through working with leading professional service firms, we’ve found that accounting and legal firms deal with numerous processes and application platforms which operate independently of each other with little or no integration. This leads to inefficient operations and higher costs.
Integration & Automation
The latest LPM (Legal Practice Management) report - ‘Legal IT Landscapes 2019’ – revealed the majority of respondents see risk and compliance alongside operations and administration were the support services that could benefit most from more automation. While the benefits of automating marketing and business development fell lower down in importance with only 11%.
Sarah Trude, our Business Development Director, has an article featured in the April issue of Legal Practice Management where she talks about the ‘puck mindset’. What’s that do we hear you say? Well, it’s in relation to Wayne Gretzky, who is a Canadian former ice-hockey player, where he talks about “skating to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”
