Company
Workbooks.Com provides a suite of easy-to-use business applications designed specifically for small and mid-size organisations to run their business - already fully integrated and delivered over the web Software as a Service (SaaS).
Workbooks CRM and Workbooks Business comprehensively supports your business lifecycle:
- Sales
- Marketing
- Sales Order Management
- Invoicing
- Customer Service
- Purchasing
Workbooks CRM and Workbooks Business help you to improve the performance of your organisation; with real-time visibility of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Workbooks solutions help to increase productivity through efficiency gains and provide the framework to better manage risks to your business.
Workbooks applications are built on the WorkbooksOne™ platform as a pre-integrated suite of applications. This removes the traditional requirement for small and mid-size businesses to select, purchase, implement, integrate and manage separate CRM and back-office software and associated hardware; in contrast Workbooks is ready for use as soon as you subscribe - and starts to deliver value immediately.
Founded and led by an experienced team of Software as a Service entrepreneurs, Workbooks is a SaaS solution that delivers low up-front and ongoing costs and delivers unlimited scalability and guaranteed reliability.
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Workbooks is founded by a team of entrepreneurs with a track record in creating and building successful technology companies.
John Cheney - Chief Executive Officer
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James Kay – Chief Technical Officer
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Jenny Robb – Chief Financial Officer
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Edward Berks - VP Sales
A Software-as-a-Service pioneer; John launched one of the first software as a service companies back in the late 1990s. He is a successful entrepreneur with over eighteen years experience in the IT industry; ten of which have been running IT companies in Europe and North America.
Prior to Workbooks Online, John founded two previous successful SaaS security companies. John founded BlackSpider Technologies in 2002 and successfully grew the company to become an award winning provider of in-the-cloud email and web security services to over 2,500 organisations world-wide before the company was bought by SurfControl in 2006. John then led marketing and product management at SurfControl and was a key member of the senior management team which led the Company through to its acquisition by Websense in October 2007.
Prior to BlackSpider, John was the Founder and CEO of Activis, a managed security services company which was acquired by Articon-Integralis in 1999. Activis was a leading provider of managed firewall and VPN services in North America and Europe, winning awards from SC Magazine for its services and Frost and Sullivan for its business strategy.
With twenty years' IT industry experience, James is responsible for architecting our solutions and for creating and directing the Workbooks technical team.
James took on similar roles prior to co-founding Workbooks. As a co-founder of BlackSpider Technologies and Activis he led the building of world-class infrastructures supporting millions of users with extremely high levels of service delivery and customer satisfaction. Following BlackSpider's acquisition by SurfControl and then Websense, James remained responsible for the design and delivery of their Hosted Email Security and Hosted Web Security services.
James' technical interests are the creation of very scalable and robust on-demand systems which are easy for customers to put to use.
Previously James has held development and architecture roles for IBM and Hewlett Packard and he holds a degree in Computer Science from Manchester University.
Jenny is a successful accountant with a track record in operational management and extensive experience in corporate finance.
Prior to joining Workbooks, Jenny was co-founder and CFO of BlackSpider Technologies, a leading provider of software as a service security solutions. Jenny was responsible for the financial health of the business, capital raising and investor relations.
Prior to BlackSpider Jenny was Corporate Development Director for the Articon-Integralis group. She was a key member of the management team which completed a Secondary Public Offering for the company in April 2000 and subsequently was responsible for implementing the M&A strategy for the group including the completion of 5 acquisitions and 2 strategic investments.
Jenny also worked for KPMG Corporate Finance as a key member of the Software and Computer Services team. During this period she was involved in over 25 transactions including capital raising, disposals, acquisitions and management buy-outs for both public and private companies. Jenny earned a first class honours degree from the University of Durham and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales.
Edward brings a wealth of experience to Workbooks, with nearly 20 successful years in IT sales and sales management
He joins Workbooks from Crossbeam Systems where he was Director of Sales for Northern Europe & Iberia, driving strong growth with enterprise customers and service providers.
Prior to this Edward was a founder and served as VP Sales for BlackSpider Technologies, building a base of some 2,500 customers including many well known businesses and public sector organisations in Europe and the Middle East. After BlackSpider was acquired by SurfControl in 2006, Edward led a global sales team winning new customers in the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
Previously Edward held leadership positions with Remedy Corporation, Marimba Software Inc , SAP’s middleware business SAP Portals and Oracle Corporation. Trained by Rank Xerox as a graduate, Edward holds a 2:1 Honours Degree in Engineering and Business Studies from the University of Nottingham.
The WorkbooksONE™ platform of hosted business applications - Workbooks CRM and Workbooks Business - has been developed by a team of entrepreneurs who have successfully built several UK companies. Each time having to deal with the frustrations and limitations of traditional software that did not really meet the requirements of a growing business.
Small Companies with Big Ideas
As the companies we created started small, we couldn't afford integrated business software like SAP or Oracle. We were left to implement standalone applications for each part of our business: Sage or Quickbooks for accounting, Goldmine, Salesforce.com or Act! for sales and marketing.
These standalone applications quickly became ‘islands of information’ with duplication of data and integration between systems complex and costly. We had lots of manual processes to try and ‘plug the gaps’ and found getting management information from the systems a real challenge. This left us with spreadsheet after spreadsheet where we tried to slice and dice the data to measure and manage our businesses.
Costs and Complexities
Alongside the software challenges we also had to hire IT staff, buy servers, manage databases, and worry about resilience of the systems and backing up our data. In general, we had a significant total cost of ownership to buy and maintain our IT business systems.
The Solution
Workbooks Online has been developed specifically to resolve these issues for small and growing businesses. In short, we help you to:
- Win more business.
- Provide great products and services to your customers.
- Keep cash flowing by invoicing and collecting cash on time.
In the News
Small To Medium Businesses – Missing The Big Picture? - Fresh Business Thinking 24th Feb 2010
The Independant-John Cheney CEO Workbooks "Clarity is the Key for Small and Medium-sized Enteprises". -10th Nov 2009
GT Download.com - Workbooks Online Provides Sales and Marketing Advisories for Small and Mid-Size Businesses - 04 July 2009
IT Web - Expo highlights SaaS challenges - 25 May 2009
PR.COM- Workbooks Online CEO Highlights SaaS Integration Challenges at Cloud Expo Europe - 21 May 2009
Get Reading - Business profile - Workbooks Online - 15 May 2009
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Computing News - Workbooks Online Enters into the UK Market - May 2009
CRN - Workbooks Online Hits UK - 01 May 2009
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Business Cloud 9 - Workbooks Opens the Page on Bold Ambitions for SMEs - 27 April 2009
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