The FSSC Selects APT Solutions

The FSSC selects APT to enhance their membership system

APT Solutions has been appointed by the Financial Services Skills Council (FSSC) to upgrade their existing membership system. We will be providing them with a new web enabled, integrated membership management solution that will drive the organisation forward to meet today's ever evolving and demanding day to day challenges. By implementing Stratum CRM and our Visage CMS together they will supply the FSSC with a multifaceted, intuitive database with a strong relationship structure enabling the FSSC to maximise productivity and make full use of their company assets.

“In today’s financially driven world the FSSC play a key role in making sure the people who look after your money are provided with the leadership training and educational development required in this ever changing environment. To support these goals, they need excellent systems that give them the flexibility to adapt whilst ensuring that all operational guidelines are strictly adhered to as you would expect within the financial sector.  APT Solutions are proud that the FSSC have chosen their Visage CMS and Stratum Membership Systems to provide the total solution to their information tracking and delivery needs.” Stuart Shepherd, Managing Director - APT Solutions Ltd

APT Solutions have been carefully selected by the Financial Services Skills Council who were impressed by many aspects of our company, not only by the software package and its extensive functionalities but also by the professionalism and dedication we promise to our customers. 

"APT are a professional organisation that offers a feature rich product and exceptional value for money. In there for the long haul, they appear to be innovative and keen to work with us to meet our every need" making APT stand out above the rest due to our "Ease of reporting and ability to mine the data easily and quickly, a feature rich product, price, friendly professional staff and a highly flexible and easy to use web offer" Steve O' Keeffe, Director of Operations - Financial Services Skills Council.

The Financial Services Skills Council was established by government license in 2004 as an employer led UK wide organisation, building world leading skills throughout the financial services industry,  ensuring  that the UK remain at the forefront of innovation and delivery in this market. The organisation provides strategic leadership for training, education and workforce development within the financial industry. They ensure quality and value of training whilst improving co ordination within the sectors skills base, raising productivity from multinationals to individuals and heightening business performance for their members. Engaging with the industry and stakeholders the FSSC create and promote exemplary standards; through labour market intelligence identify and address skills issues in the sector; create tools to attract and develop people in order to promote financial services as a career of first choice, and influence government and policy makers on skills needs and solutions. Moving forward about 3 million working people will benefit directly from the work that the FSSC undertake, whilst the economy of the UK in turn will benefit from the products and services they deliver worldwide.       

"APT was chosen after a rigorous selection process where we looked at numerous systems and then took in depth presentations from a smaller number of short listed suppliers. APT offers an easy to operate, feature and functionality rich product that can be set up from within the standard Stratum system to meet all our stated needs. They offered a fully hosted and supported solution, and were able to offer to help us re-design and develop our website, adding functionality that automatically interfaces to the CRM System in a highly innovative system that we can then use to update the site easily ourselves. The price and levels of support to deliver our solution within a very tight timeframe offered exceptional value for money – and all this with a smile – what more could we ask for?" Steve O' Keeffe, Director of Operations  - Financial Services Skills Council

Date: 24-07-08

For further information please contact:

Helen Pomlett
Sales and Marketing Manager
Email: helen.pomlett@aptsolutions.co.uk
Tel: + 44 (0) 1952 214000
Fax: + 44 (0) 1952 214001