Recent Projects

Bury Metropolitan Borough Council

This is an upgrade project, where we are working with Unit 4 Agresso to provide the lead consultancy service for an upgrade from 5.4 to 5.3. The project started in June 2010 and was completed in 2011.

The upgrade project will incorporate the new upgrade packages developed by Unit4

PDF - Reporting

Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute

This is a system admin support and development project which started in April 2010 and involves the provision of system admin support for an initial period until a new internal team has been recruited. We will then provide bespoke training for the new system admin team in order to ensure that the Institute is self sufficient and has the skill and capability to continue to support and develop the application.

PDF – Training development and delivery

Rutland County Council

A report writing project, helping the council strengthen the reports available to users. This included browser and excelerator reports using balance tables and SQL. The project undertaken in June 2010

General Medical Council

This was an end user training project, involving the creation of bespoke materials and the delivery of training courses for both Smart and Self Service users. The project started in March 2009 and was completed in November of the same year.

PDF– Training development and delivery

Loughborough University

Loughborough University, a long time customer, approached Highpoint looking for a Credit Card Management solution to replace their disparate and expensive on-line product, DCal.  The brief was clear; develop a system which would manage credit card transaction information down to line item detail level and make that data immediately available for commitment accounting.  Highpoint took the existing Agresso Purchase Cards solution and further developed it to meet the needs of the University.  Please see the case study for further information.

PDF - Design and development of an innovative credit card management system

Waverley District Council - 5.5.3 upgrade

Waverley DC chose Highpoint to carry out their upgrade from Agresso 5.4 to 5.5.3.The project was deemed a complete success as it was delivered on time and within budget.  One of the major areas of concern within the council was around the debtors’ function which had had little or no investment since Agresso was first implemented in 2004. Please see the case study for details on how Highpoint helped WDC improve its debtors function.

PDF - upgrade

Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts

The Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA) opened in 1996 and is dedicated to people who want to enter and survive the tough world or arts and entertainment. LIPA is located in Sir Paul McCartneys’old school and delivers a World Class education to its students.LIPA appointed Highpoint to assist with development work and provide training on the newly installed Agresso 5.5.2 system – now 5.5.3 upgrade. This training was bespoke and specific to LIPA. For example, the training on Excelerator and Browser reporting incorporated the creation of reports requested by LIPA senior management using LIPA data.

PDF – Application consultancy

John Laing

This was phase two of the 5.5.3 implementation. Then training programme included many self service courses ranging from introduction to Agresso upto Purchasing and requisitioning and complex Smart Client course, Highpoint built a number of interactive classroom style courses using user guides and work books with highly visual Quick reference guides for transactional task. Feedback was collected after each course and satisfaction ratings for the training were on average good or excellent with an exceptional number of students stating their confidence level as high.

PDF - Training development and delivery

Aberystwyth University Support

Since implementing Agresso Aberystwyth University had had issues with accurate commitment accounting especially in the area of VAT recoverability. 

Highpoint were engaged by the University to help with a number of post upgrade issues including commitment accounting.

Where appropriate the university wished to charge the unrecoverable portion of VAT back to the originating department, however their standard implementation only worked on net figures and did not work at all on when the analysis on Purchase Orders had been split across multiple codes.

Highpoint have over a number of years developed a solution for the rebuild of commitment accounting figures that take into account VAT recoverability and split analysis ensuring upto date accurate commitment figures at all times. This solution was implemented at the university and they now have accurate and reliable commitment accounting data.

Aberystwyth University Training

The brief from the project team was to deliver as much end user material as possible for a minimal budget. After a brief consultation it was decided that flash cards were the most appropriate providing some end user training material to the largest number of users whilst enabling the University to update it Themselves when required. By utilising Highpoint the university accessed a wide range of templates flash cards which were easily amended to reflect the universities ABW configuration.

Maidstone District Council

Maidstone Council in Kent first implemented Agresso using version 5.2 in the late 1990’s, since when they had upgraded to Agresso 5.4.4. In a joint project with Unit4, Highpoint consultants were engaged to carry out the application upgrade with Unit4 carrying out the technical aspects. One unique feature of this implementation was that MDC use a 3rd Party Document Management system, Information@Work (I@W), to scan and index their invoices.  Please see the case study for information on how Highpoint helped MDC implement the new web services based integration between Agresso and I@W.

PDF - Application Upgrade

Port of London Authority – 5.5.3 Upgrade including bespoke development

The Port of Authority covers 95 miles of the River Thames and works to keep commercial and leisure users safe as well as protecting the environment. The PLA have been using Agresso since the early 2000s and Highpoint were engaged to help them upgrade to the latest version (5.5.3) as well as liaising with Unit4 to ensure that an important piece of bespoke development continued to work in 5.5.3.