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What people say about VBN...
"This is groundbreaking stuff. Administrating grant applications is an extraordinarily complex process, particularly where the funds available run into millions of pounds. This unique system enables a simple online registration, eligibility checking and application process enabling us to stay on top of thousands of applications and track their progress through the system.
We are also accountable to the EU and the system will allow us to report to them effectively and to track where funds are at any point in time. We will also be able to demonstrate a huge return on investment by massively reducing our administration costs. "
Steve Cargill, Project Officer, Lincolnshire Broadband Team on the Grant Administration System developed by VBN |
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What clients say |
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Gillian Holdom, Director - The Møller Centre
'The Møller Centre sees its website as a key tool in communicating its service quality, facilities and style to potential and current clients - we needed a new site that met all of these requirements as well as enabling Centre staff to manage the content in-house and offer the facility for interaction between ourselves and our clients including booking enquiries.
VBN's experience, professionalism and capability made them the ideal partner for the project.'
Steve Cargill, Project Officer, Lincolnshire Broadband Team on the Grant Administration System developed by VBN
'This is groundbreaking stuff. Administrating grant applications is an extraordinarily complex process, particularly where the funds available run into millions of pounds. This unique system enables a simple online registration, eligibility checking and application process enabling us to stay on top of thousands of applications and track their progress through the system. We are also accountable to the EU and the system will allow us to report to them effectively and to track where funds are at any point in time. We will also be able to demonstrate a huge return on investment by massively reducing our administration costs.'
Matthew Bullock, Chairman of i10
'To date the i10 site has been hugely successful, gaining momentum month on month and I am delighted by the level of collaboration that has been achieved through the website. Full credit to VBN for providing such an effective solution that has help i10 to achieve so much.'
Robert Mann, Director, Association for Geographic Information
'The aim of the new network is to maximise the use of geographical information for the benefit of the citizen, good governance and commerce. We chose to work with vbn due to their unrivalled 'in-house' knowledge and experience in the planning, building and ongoing development of successful participative virtual communities.'
John Bridge OBE, Chamber Chief Executive, Cambridgeshire Chamber
'This website heralds an exciting new phase in the Chamber's development and we are convinced it will play a pivotal role in enhancing our communication with members and stakeholders'
Stephen Buckley, Information Services Manager, YMCA England
'We were looking for a truly integrated content management system that we could offer to all of our member YMCAs. VBN's software and support package is everything we were looking for and more. Having 144 member YMCAs - each with their own particular needs - to support puts a huge strain on our resources and up until now we could only work on a case-by-case basis. By outsourcing the technological burden we can now offer an extremely competitively priced solution with a dramatically reduced development time. In addition, vbn will help us build the YMCA brand through locally adapted visual templates and help offer consistency to visitors to YMCA websites. We are delighted with it.'
Caroline Hill, Cambridgeshire Chamber
'We are delighted with the netsphere solution provided by vbn. It was quick and easy to deploy and has built in functions that have been specifically developed for networking organisations like ourselves. The result is that we now have a website which gives our members far greater opportunities to promote their business than ever before. We are looking forward to building a vibrant online community to benefit all our members.'
Dr Jeremy Pearce, Technology Information and Forecasting Manager, Tin Technology
'VBN ran an excellent workshop on virtual networking as a concept for managing European Research projects and were impressed by their proven capabilities in this area. We felt it sensible to outsource this project to reduce 'whole life' costs and increase integrated functionality. Speed of delivery was also a critical factor for us, hence the decision to go with VBN.'
Ingemar Pongratz, a researcher at the Karolinska Institute
'This Network of Excellence will make a big difference. It will be the first time that such a wide scientific community, including neurologists, chemists, and experts in risk assessment and metabolism, is brought together in an integrated structure to combine different disciplines in a single project.'
Keith Lomas, Group President and CEO of Ultravision CLPL
'VBN demonstrated the required professionalism and approach to partner with us on this project and was refreshingly open with its pricing structure which gave us confidence.'
Claire Dutton, Support Manager, The Innovation Network
'We carried out a full procurement exercise to identify a provider of network support software for our Innovation Network and were impressed both by the product and the full service offering from VBN. The long list of existing clients for their network software together with excellent client references gave us the reassurance we needed to go with VBN.'
Robert Schwarzenboeck - Web Master Munichnetwork
'What I can tell is that it´s fun working with VBN and I
hope working together with us was not too strenuous for the VBN team during the last months......
...as a whole we hope to provide additional benefit for our members, exchange of ideas, promotion of Events and News to a wider range of people and regions and a basis for future co-operations.
....everything fine, done quickly and meeting our needs.
As a whole we love our new site - even as some changes will have to be done - and have only best feedback from our members.'
Suffolk Network website.
'I can confirm that we have been totally satisfied with all aspects of VBN in developing our ground breaking Suffolk Network website.
The whole project was conceived, designed and implemented in under 6 weeks so that we went live on 1 January 2001'
Bob Feltwell
Chief Executive
Suffolk Chamber of Commerce/Suffolk Network
Declan McGee - Biotechnology Communications Specialist - Enterprise Ireland Biotechnology Directorate
'We chose VBN to build the Enterprise Ireland Biotechnology Directorate website based on their experience and track record.
We weren't disappointed.
VBN have the tools to make the website work as we want it, the flexibility to incorporate our design elements and the staff to make it all happen painlessly.'
David Broughton - Royal Institute of Navigation
'Just to say that we recently had our 3rd birthday and are very happy with rin.org.uk -
we've had over a million pages read over the 3 years.
Please thank all at VBN for looking after us so well.'
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