It has been a momentous week for the AT8 team leading up to this, our last AT8 blog (the 257th!!).
On Monday, as most of our readers will know, we announced the AT8 team will be joining IRESS and forming its UK branch. IRESS is a company with whom we have been impressed over the last few years and we are all looking forward to working with the team. Its practice management software, XPLAN, is both impressive in the reach of its functionality and the ability to configure it quickly to customer needs and we are proud to be associated with it.
The launch of IRESS in the UK will cause a number of ripples within the industry especially as the first client is Sesame, the largest of the UK’s network. IRESS could not ask for a better first client and are excited to be helping them to bring a differentiated technology offering to its members.
The reception of the news of the AT8 team moving to IRESS as been heart-warming. We have had so many good wishes and emails of support all of which we are grateful for. The press has been positive here and in Australia where the financial press have picked up on the UK entrance of IRESS with feverish delight. It even made Sky News over there!
We have also been at the Sesame and Bankhall Symposiums this week, where the deal was first formally announced. The response from the Sesame members and Bankhall firms has been hugely positive and we look forward to working closely with the Sesame Bankhall team over the coming months.
Mark, Nigel and myself will continue to offer our thoughts on the market via our blogs (after a short break), twitter feeds and press activity but under the IRESS brand. We look forward to seeing many of our readers face to face to discuss our move in more detail.
Between the conference, the press calls, answering emails and phone calls and project work it has been a busy week. Now the real work at IRESS begins.
So, hopefully, its more of ‘à bientôt’ than ‘au revoir’.
