Longleat selected CODA’s Dream accounting solution, supplied and installed by Hexagon. As well as linking with its existing payroll system, it also integrates with the EPoS systems in use and with Hexagon’s LandMark property management solution.
Longleat Enterprises Limited manages the well-known Longleat House and Safari Park in Wiltshire and Cheddar Caves in Somerset, which are run as tourist attractions where the main income comes from admissions, retail and catering. Longleat Estate is a landed estate split into the property and land of the Marquess of Bath and that of Viscount Weymouth, his son. The main source of income is rent from properties as well as revenue generated through forestry and fishing.
Dream is designed for easy integration with other systems. Hexagon designed and wrote interfaces for the EPoS, Forestry, Payroll and banking packages, to enable the data to be easily imported. Whenever information is brought in, it is checked for integrity before any updating of the system occurs. The same automated interface can also handle bulk input during the initial setup of the system – avoiding hours of rekeying and validation.
Integration with the LandMark Property system means that information on property repairs can be analysed by property. This provides much needed control as managers can see the data on their screen for the first time and have been made more accountable for their own expenditure.
Overall, real-time performance data is more readily available to the finance department and business managers than ever before, which has enabled more and improved historical analysis.
