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Invenias Solution Allow Search for Talent • Founded in London in 1993 • 10 international offices in global financial centres • 120 professionals across Europe, USA & Asia Pacific • AESC member firm • Ranked number 1 for UK specialist firms 2012/2013 by Executive Grapevine • Focus on the global financial services industry across all sectors Sheffield Haworth talk about implementing the right technology to support a growing international business. Sheffield Haworth is a leading global executive search, interim management and human capital advisory company. The firm focuses on the global financial services industry across all sectors and is ranked by Executive Grapevine in the UK as number one for specialist executive search firms for 2012/2013. With more than 120 professionals across ten international offices, Sheffield Haworth is a truly international company operating in all the major financial centres in Europe, the USA and Asia Pacific. As such, the key requirement for its technology platform is to allow consultants access to reliable, consistent data in real time, wherever they are based in the world. Having carried out a comprehensive review of the software currently on the market, Sheffield Haworth concluded that Invenias was their preferred solution, meeting the specific criteria they had set. “We were looking for a cloud-based solution, we’d had nearly 20 years of using legacy software and with that you get an inevitable decline in usefulness as your hardware gets older and then needs to be replaced – something that isn’t an issue with a cloud-based system,” says Richard Watson, Group IT Director. Jacqui Hancock Group Cheif Administrative Officer But it wasn’t just the cloud-based nature of Invenias that has convinced Watson. “The big selling point for Invenias is the way that it sits within Outlook,” he continued. “Everything else that we looked at was either browser- based or worked as a separate app or program. Invenias is a very natural work flow because what do you do when you first switch on your PC in the morning? You open up Outlook and check your email and as part of that, with Invenias, your database opens automatically so it’s just a more simplified work flow and a more natural way of working.” Furthermore, Sheffield Haworth found that even though the software works straight out of the box, Invenias was flexible enough to allow them to tailor the software to reflect the way that they work. Richard Watson Group IT Director www.sheffieldhaworth.com “We selected Invenias not only because of the quality of their product, but because they \