Case Study: London Borough of Islington achieves £3 million in efficiency savings with Advanced Collaborative Planning

Islington Council to make £3m saving supported by Advanced’s budgeting and forecasting solution

The London Borough of Islington faced severe funding cuts and needed to cut controllable spend while maintaining frontline services, but its budgeting and forecasting relied on slow, manual spreadsheet processes that limited visibility and decision-making. Advanced provided its cloud-based budgeting and forecasting solution, Collaborative Planning, to replace those inefficient processes and support better financial control.

Advanced implemented Collaborative Planning across the council in a phased rollout, enabling managers to submit, approve, and compare forecasts in a single system with real-time data and scenario planning. The result was a more efficient, transparent finance function that eliminated many data-entry errors and helped Islington reduce core finance costs by 40%, delivering £3 million in efficiency savings.

London Borough of Islington

Alan Layton

Director of Financial Management