Partnering For Sucess
To provide the highest
value to our customers, we establish partnerships with key leaders.
ask-4 Business Solutions over the years has formed partnerships with a “carefully selected” list of organisations. Our partners have been selected to meet the growing demand for our Business strategy and to further enhance the functionality of our solution offerings.
Listed below are details of some of our key partners and their offerings.
Metastorm are the leading providers of Business Process Management software and the only company that focuses on helping organisations achieve Enterprise Process Advantage® – a heightened level of performance resulting from efficiency, agility, and control across mission critical business processes.
Metastorm’s
proven, enterprise level BPM platform, Metastorm BPM®, supports the
full roundtrip process lifecycle and enables our customers to design,
automate and manage Critical processes to achieve greater productivity,
customer service, profitability and overall business performance
improvements.
Business Process Management (BPM) software is a powerful
technology that integrates disparate systems, data
and people together 
to
form a
single cohesive system. It
forms a process layer across your organisation so that data from
various systems can be shared through a single interface to enable your
staff to work more easily, effectively and provide a better service.
Metastorm
BPM is fast gaining the reputation of being one of the most valuable IT
investments you can make because it helps you achieve your most
critical business objectives:
- Increased Productivity
- Better Customer Service
- Greater Competitive Advantage
- Stronger Financial Performance
- Regulatory Compliance
Through Metastorm BPM customers achieve Enterprise Process Advantage® – a heightened level of business performance.
To find out more email metastorm@ask-4.co.uk
or visit www.metastorm.com
Business Resource Development is a UK-based company with a worldwide reputation for supplying innovative business software solutions. Their flagship product SWiFT is designed to be both user-inclusive and compatible with Metastorm BPM.
The SWiFT module for Metastorm BPM, adds tools and additional functionality that can significantly improve both your business processes and end-user experience. It Provides an enhanced and alternative Interfaces for users to fully participate in Metastorm BPM processes.
The
Charizma Module can offer all the familiar functions and features of
the Standard Metastorm BPM Interface. The user experience is further
enhanced by offering alternative 'look and feel' interface options,
some with additional functionality, which together can greatly enhance
productivity.
The SWiFT Power Tools further enhances the
Metastorm BPM offering. The Metastorm BPM developer can choose from a
whole host of out-of-the-box extra functions and features via the
Metastorm Designer Wizard. 
This
avoids the use of external .Net technologies - shortens the development
and deployment cycle and improves cost-effectiveness.
To find out more email brd@ask-4.co.uk
or visit www.brdee.com
EPO Consulting is an emerging, internationally operating consulting company for integration solutions with SAP. EPO Consulting is the producer of the "EPO XML Connector," which enables better integrations to SAP solutions. The application area of the EPO XML Connector is unlimited.
EPO Consulting consequently does SAP integration projects and implements, often together with partners, bidirectional integration solutions from external systems to SAP solutions.
Metastorm BPM, Adobe Interactive forms, MS SharePoint portal or the connection of a complete POS system to SAP are just some of the examples.
EPO Consulting is the specialist for all SAP integration ranging from file interfaces and idocs up to SOA and Web Services.
To find out more email epo@ask-4.co.uk
or visit www.epoconsulting.com
Founded in 2002, Integris Financial Recruitment is an independent, niche consultancy specialising in the placement of senior, middle-management, part and newly qualified finance professionals on a permanent and contract basis in London and the Thames Valley.
By focusing on the client’s specific requirements, Integris has established a strong track record of helping a wide variety of companies ranging from SMEs to blue-chips in all areas of permanent, interim and contract financial recruitment. Clients include Lexmark, Electronic Arts, Symantec and D&B.
"Effective recruitment is about finding the right person for your organisation. It's not about using a scientific formula....it's about using a company who knows and understands your business and has the experience to source candidates who will bring that little extra to your team. We understand the importance of a personal approach and that’s why we have partnered ask-4 Business Solutions to developed recruitment based processes to achieve efficiency.”
Kevin Popat – Director
To find out more email integris@ask-4.co.uk
or visit www.integrisrec.co.uk
Ascot Business Solutions Limited is a leading UK Electronic Document Management company with it’s head office based centrally in mid- Staffordshire within the M1- M6 corridor. Regional offices in the South East, South West and the North of England provide nationwide support to organisations throughout the UK and Ireland.
Ascot Business Solutions are certified partners with several major “best of breed” companies including Canon, Avanquest, Formic, Form Recognition, Metastorm, Spielberg Solutions (ScanFile and FileDirector) and FILEstream providing complete solutions in the area of automated data collection from paper, the Web, PDA’s and Tablet PC’s plus electronic document management (EDM) and business process management (BPM).
Ascot Business Solutions provides the answer to dealing with your ever increasing mountain of paper, organising it in a way that creates fast and efficient retrieval, saving SPACE, TIME and MONEY.
"ask-4 Business Solutions have worked with Ascot Business Solutions Limited on the implementation of several major BPM projects. In each case our customers have been delighted with the way both companies have worked together to deliver highly successful BPM processes within their organisations, often exceeding their initial expectations.
Return on Capital (ROI) has been achieved in some instances in less than 1 year, with a high level of user acceptance and satisfaction. ask-4 Business Solutions have always conducted their consultancy and training in a thoroughly professional and timely manner with excellent interpersonal skills."
Mark Ingram
To find out more email ascot@ask-4.co.uk
or visit www.ascot-solutions.co.uk
Action Image Productions is a successful independent production company which has, for a many years, been delivering a wide range of corporate productions, both locally and nationally, across the Private and Public sectors for household names such as C&G, Lloyds TSB, Nestle and Bacardi as well as the University of Birmingham.
"AIP has worked with ask-4 on a number of occasions. We have always found ask-4 Business Solutions to be professional, understanding and insightful and have developed a very solid working relationship."
Lee Stephens – Managing
Director
To find out more email aip@ask-4.co.uk
or visit www.actionimageproductions.com
BPM Wave is a company totally dedicated to helping organisations with Business Process Management. Having helped develop BPM solutions for corporations as well as for public authorities; we offer a complete lifecycle of service from strategy and modeling to execution and monitoring of business processes.
BPM Wave delivers an industry-leading suite of BPM software and services that help organisations optimise on business performance. BPM Wave is an exclusive reseller of Metastorm and iOctane in Romania.
We partnered with ask-4 Business solutions to extend our solutions portfolio so that our clients can further benefit from automated business solutions, increased process efficiencies and a rapid return on investment.
To find out more email bpmwave@ask-4.co.uk
or visit www.bpmwave.ro