User number growth – recent wins

2005 saw a flood of firms coming over to APS from other suppliers. We are delighted to announce that another important milestone was reached on Friday 10th June 2005: the number of practitioners using APS Advance reached the 25,000 mark.

Only three short years ago (30 June 2002) we had a shade under 12,000 users and as the new figures show, we have more than doubled the number of users since that time.

Of course, building a user base is one thing but achieving high levels of satisfaction among clients at the same time has been – and continues to be – our main goal. With this in mind we are very proud of the collective satisfaction ratings given to us by our clients in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. A Client Survey was undertaken in each of those key markets in March and April 2005 – please review the results by clicking here.

To keep clients and prospective clients in the loop as to our growing client list, we include below details of a number of recent additions to the APS client family. While many of the firms listed are practices of scale with well known names, it is worth noting that more than 50% of APS's clients are in the 1 to 3 partner range:

Top 100 Australian practices – new APS Clients: January to June 2005
Lawler Partners - Newcastle - 130 users
DFK Group (DFK Hirn Newey, Brisbane; Laurence Varnay DFK, Sydney) - 47 users
Ashley & Munro - Queensland – 50 users
BDO Perth - Western Australia – 70 users
Einfeld Symonds BDV Chartered Accountants – Sydney - 65 users
Haines Norton – Sydney – 40 users
HLB Queensland (formerly Moore Stephens Brisbane) – Brisbane – 90 users
Jones Condon – Sydney – 50 users
Maxwell Brown & Mountjoy – Vic – 47 users
Kothes – Country / Southern NSW – 40 users
Korda Mentha - multiple locations around Australia – 100 users
Pilot Partners (formerly Calabro Partners)– 50 users

New WHK Group implementations include:-
Cameron Kirk Rose – Armidale / Country NSW - 120 users
Rutherfords – 5 offices, Country NSW - 80 users
WHK Greenwoods & Wamstekers – Sydney – 100 users
Gosling Chapman - Auckland - 90 Users
Coffey Davidson - Hastings - 60 users

Advance Foundation – launched in October 2004
Since we first launched Advance Foundation in October 2004 we have seen a great deal of interest and take-up generated among smaller firms with up to 10 users. We installed Advance Foundation with a small number of ‘early adopter’ practices in the months leading up to 31 December 2004 and since ramping up the service in January of this year, we now have 47 firms on the Advance Foundation suite.

For more information on how APS can assist your practice, please contact us in Australia, New Zealand or the UK – and let us show you the APS difference.