Case Studies
Barnsley College
"We have made an annual saving of £100k – 25% of our overall annual print/copy budget - and our staff are more productive because they spend less time managing supplies and maintenance."
Carolynne Thurlbeck, Head of Adminstration, MIS and Exams
MRC Transmark
"Without mstore we would need to employ around 30 people worldwide to collate all the correct documents for every product we ship."
Owen Clark, IS Manager
Quill International Group Ltd
"The new machines have not only cut our costs drastically but have also increased our efficiency whilst bringing our paperwork into the 21st Century."
Alison Campbell, administration supervisor
WWF UK
"We had a batch of 22,000 forms that we would previously have paid for a third party to process. However, we find mstore so quick and easy to use that we have saved money by processing the paperwork in-house. We are so pleased with the way mstore has helped us to address the issues surrounding our Gift Aid forms that we are now actively looking to roll it into other areas of our business, including supporter correspondence."
Peta Thompson, head of supporter care
Wabco
"Everything Arena promised to do has been delivered on time and within budget"
Colleen Bosworth, finance administrator
A4e
"The quality of the machines and responsiveness from Arena help ensure we can be the best at what we do."
Sandra Shapiro, procurement advisor
Hull and East Yorkshire Credit Union
"mstore saves us the cost of document storage and makes the set-up of new accounts more efficient. It’s quick and easy to file and retrieve documents so we can answer queries and work through processes speedily."
Eddie Hotham, Finance Manager
Morrish Solicitors LLP
"Arena has made my job easier. Now I don't have to think about the printers. I know exactly where we are."
Jaime Lockwood, IT manager
Gateways School
"We've actually got two more printers in the process but are spending around 40% less - that's a saving of £3,000 a quarter."
Jonathan Finan, IT systems manager
Leeds Building Society
"By far the biggest improvement is in customer service, exactly where we wanted the results. We are processing applications faster and customers’ waiting time has reduced. Files can be called up instantly and everyone knows where documents are on the system."
Susan Horn, senior business analyst
St Wilfrid's Catholic High School and Sixth Form College
"We've cleared our archive, scanning and shredding paper documents that were previously stored in 15 filing cabinets. Indexing documents in mstore is quick and simple."
Claire Appleby, Office Manager
151 Products Ltd
"Storing our accounts payable documents electronically has eliminated human error, is saving time and has given us more control over our processes."
Ian George, finance director
Bradford Grammar School
"We are overrun by paper. We produce it is as if it is going out of fashion and we are constantly looking at how to store it all in a logical way. Electronic storage is the only sensible option."
Ian Findlay, BursarDrydens Lawyers
"Arena came in and turned my ideas into reality. They were so practical and quickly got to know us and our business to understand what we were trying to achieve. I liked the people and we became a team, working together to get the right system for us."
Tracey Sherrard, head of business change
Reed Boardall
"We met Arena and they showed an excellent understanding of our operational techniques and processes. They were quick on the uptake and we only had to explain things once. They sorted our methodology while we were talking."
Garry Tillburn, managing director
Bolton St. Catherine's Academy
"I used Arena in a previous school and recommended them when I moved here. What impresses me about them is their customer service - they have a completely different approach to other companies."
Phil Deakin, finance director
Advatac Limited
"The managed Print Service is brilliant. Arena made all the calculations for us and pointed out the potential saving we would make each month; these savings have been realised"
Aileen Chapman, director
Leeds Trinity University College
"With the squeeze on higher education budgets all areas of the university college are looking to make savings. On our high volume black and white photocopier alone we produce 1.25 million copies a quarter and our colour copier averages about 30,000 copies per quarter."
Julie Orange, publications service supervisor
37 Park Square Chambers
"Arena are very good at what they do and how they do it. To be honest, computers are just there to make life easier and you don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about them. Arena has ensured we can just get on with our business and this is all one less worry to think about."
Linda Parker, office manager
Carnival UK
"We are very excited by a tool with the potential to give us a plethora of information we can’t get by other means, and immediately. Now we are looking at ways we could make the report more detailed and specific to each ship."
Richard Parker, systems analyst passenger services


