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Bright Horizons opt for Abacus Management Software for their European childcare centres.

Bright Horizons, the UK's largest nursery chain has chosen to implement our Abacus nursery management software package to help streamline their management processes. Here's what they have to say:

"In 2008 Bright Horizons began the search for a new Management System to help our organization manage enrolment, schedules, billing, payments and staffing more efficiently and effectively in our European child care centres. In late 2008 Bright Horizons chose Parenta to be our partner in this key company initiative.

Since that time we have been working with the Parenta team on a detailed implementation of Abacus, Parenta’s Nursery Management software, including comprehensive training for our corporate and centre teams.

Bright Horizons chose to work with Parenta on this important initiative for a variety of reasons. Firstly, upon seeing the system we were extremely impressed with the overall ease of use, with clear, concise user interfaces and an intuitive work flow. The up-to-date technology that the system leverages was also appealing as we were looking for a solution that would be able to meet our current needs and would also be able to grow and change with our organization in the coming years. Abacus already included some key functionality, such as the ability to analyze data locally, regionally, by type and across the entire organization. Being a web application, data is managed in real time, providing live information to the central management team without the need for local backups.

Abacus also provides a live interface for parents to access their accounts and booking information making the solution well positioned to support our goals and an extremely attractive choice.

Additionally, we were delighted with the Parenta team’s willingness to spend the time needed to understand our organization, processes and goals. Their investment in this area has made them a valuable partner as they are able to align with us to help us leverage their product to achieve key company goals, often on aggressive timelines. The team’s ‘can do’ attitude has consistently impressed us throughout the course of the project and we are already exploring further streamlining opportunities around staff training and other developments to maintain our position as a market innovator."

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