Stafford Long Makes the Move to Concept On-Demand

Chessington, UK – January 12th , 2009 – Concept Integrated Systems, (www.esg-concept.com) developers of the integrated agency management system, Concept™, has today announced that long-time client, Stafford Long, has made the move to Concept On-Demand. Stafford Long has seized the opportunity to switch from Concept On-Premise, which it has been using for some six years, to take advantage of the latest version of Concept which is available on a hosted/on-demand model.

An independent company, wholly owned by working partners, Stafford Long's core service offerings include recruitment marketing across press, print and internet; employer branding; employee communications; graduate marketing, response management; market research and diversity consultancy. The agency works for organisations with differing needs and issues across most industry sectors and includes many well-recognised international brands amongst its high profile client list.

Paul Stafford was instrumental in the agency's decision to move to the hosted version of Concept and explains, "We have been Concept users for more than six years and our business relies on its integrated account and finance management capabilities. However, as with all such systems we had an IT overhead and infrastructure cost to support and maintain it and keep up with new versions. Concept On-Demand changes all of that and frees us up to get on with the business of recruitment communications while the Concept people maintain, manage and host the software for us."

Ian Tomlins is Divisional Director of Concept and adds, "Stafford Long joins a long list of companies that have recognised the benefits of buying software in a hosted model and we are delighted to 'switch' this loyal customer across to this new way of accessing Concept. This is great for us because we now offer Stafford Long a way to go back to doing what they're good at, leaving us to take care of installation, management, support, software fixes, backup & recovery and all the other logistical tricks that only dedicated techies really enjoy puzzling over!."

To find out more about Concept please visit www.esg-concept.com