Transforming Charity Finance Operations with Business Central

Founded in 1985, Focus Ireland is committed to providing essential services to homeless people in Ireland, with housing projects across Dublin, Waterford, Kilkenny, Cork, Sligo and Limerick. Not only does Focus provide advice and support for finding housing, but the organisation advocates for homeless people, ensuring their rights remain on the social and political agenda. Having grown significantly in the last 3 years, the finance function had outgrown its existing ERP software with system limitations becoming increasingly apparent. Processes were quite labor-intense and involved a lot of tedious manual work, which was hard to manage at scale.

This led Focus Ireland to partner with Storm Technology to transform financial operations. By implementing Business Central, Focus Ireland created a unified finance system that consolidates important organisational data necessary to equip managers for effective decision making. The integration of Continia Document Capture has accelerated invoice approvals with automation capabilities, while Continia Expense Management now allows employees to upload expenses from the app for timely processing and approval. As well as this, corporate performance management solution, Solver, has further enhanced budget and reporting functionality.