All of our latest news along with insight, analysis and reviews of the technology and topics affecting our clients and their business solutions…
It’s official – We’re Elite for 2022
This week it was announced that LEVEL8 Solutions have been awarded Unit4 Elite Partner status for 2022 in recognition of our business and people's experience, history and customer success with the Unit4 Financials system. LEVEL8's work with the Unit4 Financials...
Latest generation LEVEL8 Portal delivers even more options for supercharging Unit4 Financials
Dan BartonDirector of Software Development & Integrations Have you ever felt constrained by your business software due to a functionality gap? Or wished you could get it talking to other critical systems quickly and easily? No matter how powerful the software...
Putting support front and centre in any software solution
Nick MaidenDirector of Operations & System Education This month we added a new button to our website. You’ll see it in the header across every page. A little green square simply saying Contact Support Here. At first, this seemed a pretty inconsequential thing to...
It’s the buzzword of the moment, so how’s your Unit4 Financials roadmap looking?
Dan BartonDirector of Software Development & Integrations The light at the end of the tunnel. An end in sight. The back of this flippin’ virus. However you want to put it, it finally feels like the toughest days of the Covid-19 pandemic are behind us and better...
It’s a hat trick! Annual Survey names FinancialForce as number one Professional Services Automation solution for third year running
SPI Research’s fourteenth annual PS Maturity Benchmark survey has recognised FinancialForce as the most adopted professional services automation (PSA) solution. This is the third year in a row that FinancialForce PSA has taken the crown, this time around achieving it...
Mastering Financial Management on the Salesforce Platform
Nick MaidenDirector of Operations & Systems Education Anyone with even a passing interest in the business software market over the last couple of decades will be pretty familiar with the Salesforce brand. During this time Salesforce has steadily grown from...
LEVEL8 achieve Unit4 Premier Partner status
We're all really proud here at LEVEL8 to have been awarded Unit4 Premier Partner status for 2021. Our partnership with Unit4 extends right the way back to the very beginning of our business, with LEVEL8's founders actually being brought together through their shared...
Why the right business systems partner matters AND how to find them
Balal AhmedDirector of Business Development & Partner Relations Today, for a few good reasons, it’s very tempting to buy into the idea that modern business software will deliver a ready to go and fully optimised system out of the box. Of course, marketing...
The MTD Phase 2 deadline is coming and we’re here to help in partnership with Avalara
Nick MaidenDirector of Operations & Systems Education Like many businesses at this point in the year, our sights are firmly set on 2021 and preparing for the opportunities and challenges that a new year will bring. We kicked this theme off in last month’s View...
The business case behind choosing to upgrade Unit4 Financials in 2021 (or any year really!)
Balal AhmedDirector of Business Development & Partner Relations And so, probably with a sigh of relief for most, we’re coming to the end of a year like no other. Yes, it’s fair to say 2020 has been a challenging one (come on, we’re British, we like a bit of...
The Formula for Success with FinancialForce
Nick MaidenDirector of Operations & Systems Education Is there anything more satisfying than a straightforward formula for something that, at first glance, may seem unfathomably complex? Take the idea of Force for example. Until Newton’s Second Law was...
What are the key business benefits for those considering an upgrade to Unit4 Financials Version 15?
By Nick Maiden Director of Operations & Systems Education You’d be hard pressed to find a business software developer or consultancy out there that doesn’t emphasise the importance of keeping critical systems up to date. And it’s a valid message… The latest...
Why head to the LEVEL8 Portal for your Cloud Journey?
By Dan Barton Director of Software Development & Integrations Last month, here on our Insights section of the site, I introduced the LEVEL8 approach to getting Cloud-Ready and began to look at the process of a business’s journey towards operating on cloud-based...
Are you a solution sales superstar who thinks differently?
We're recruiting - Chief Sales Associate/Associate Head of Sales We're growing and are on the look out for an experienced business software salesperson. The team at LEVEL8 Solutions have been implementing financial software solutions since 1994 and in 2014 we launched...
Critical systems must communicate if your business is to genuinely Get Cloud Ready
By Dan BartonDirector of Software Development & Integration We all know that it’s good to talk. It’s a fact that this software developer buys into entirely (so you can stop it with the antisocial techie jokes right now!). From a technology perspective it can even...
Developing your business recovery roadmap? Place trust in people AND technology…
By Nick MaidenDirector of Operations & Systems Education Recovery. For various reasons it’s the word on the mind of just about every human being on the planet right now. The COVID-19 crisis has sent shockwaves through public health and the economy, the magnitude...
The value of true business partnership brought into sharp focus
By Balal AhmedDirector of Business Development & Partner Relations How best to kick off an article written during the current situation we find ourselves in while avoiding the many clichés you’ll already have heard in a thousand briefings, speeches and blogs? It’s...
Understanding the importance of flexibility in a business systems partner
After your people, it's fair to say that software systems rank highly amongst the factors impacting the operations of a modern business. These systems drive critical processes, monitor performance and allow that most important asset, people, to do their job to the...
How to approach Unit4 Financials software development projects
The core Unit4 Financials platform is an extremely powerful financial management solution which has been trusted by medium to large enterprises for more than 30 years, ever since the original CODA software package it began life as was released to market. Like all...
What can your business learn from a LEVEL8 system deep dive?
Our system deep dive is an exercise we offer as part of the range of Education services available from LEVEL8. While you can probably guess that this process is all about getting in to the finer details of your business systems, what do we actually mean by a deep...