Testimonials

Eve Johnson, Intranet Project Team Manager, BSW Timber

We chose Interact because we recognised that it allows us to meet our objectives for Phase 1 of our intranet, whilst having enough functionality within its modules for us to grow and expand over time. It has improved communication across our seven UK sites and helped to harmonise reports and procedures.

Tony Bezuidenhout, IS Manager, Gallions Housing Association

Odyssey has created and delivered a quality product within budget and timescale, and continues to provide an outstanding after sales service and support to match. Our intranet usage has increased every month since inception. Access to the latest information is just a click away.

Lee Walsh, Lead Applications and Systems Manager, Bron Afon Community Housing

Odyssey's consultative approach was driven through gaining a deep understanding of our intranet requirements. Their understanding and knowledge of the housing intranet market was then applied to this enabling them to provide meaningful advice right for our needs. We are confident that Interact will meet our needs in the short medium and long term and are looking forward to a great business relationship

Carl Harris, Website Manager, BCS

Interact is intuitive, simple and non-technical both to use and administrate. It is a solution for users, not just for web and IT experts. Odyssey has been attentive to our needs and our questions, and is keen to work with us to make their solution work for us. It feels like a partnership, a joint effort towards a united goal.

Dave Cavanagh, Head of Communication for the Institute for Animal Health

We wanted many more functions but without having to do any programming; Interact 4 provided us with an out of the box solution. It also gave us more control over style and access.

Rebecca O'Neil, Head of Communications and Marketing, Selwood Housing

Interact will improve communication across our association from all angles; downwards, upwards and sideways. This will help us share the collective intelligence of the organisation and provide a productive and collaborative platform for staff reducing the tendency people have to work in silos.

Suzanne Linnell, Intranet Project Leader, BMS World Mission

We are encouraging our staff to be proactive in building up the intranet and make use of the features to comment, update and rate individual documents. The flexibility of the homepage elements means that we can direct information to each group of users, ensuring they have quick access to their key documents.

Sarah Campion, Intranet Champion for the Youth Sport Trust

Interacts main strengths are that it's easy to manage and really user friendly, for example non technical staff can update information easily and quickly.

Ian Butterworth, Head of ICT for Midland Heart

We contacted Odyssey as we had heard of Interacts excellent reputation for providing collaborative intranet solutions specifically designed to help social housing organistions improve productivity and service delivery

Lisa Carroll, Fundraising, Marketing and Communications Manager for Mayday Trust

Mayday Trust chose Interact Intranet because it is a tried and tested product offering a good support network and a variety of applications

Ayesha Graves, Intranet Editor at Waterstone's

Interact Intranet saves us time through ease of use and our improved contacts facility has meant that Head Office individuals, in particular, are much more visible to branches and their roles are much clearer

Lucy Hargreaves, Director at Spiral Cellars Ltd

Interact Intranet provided the perfect solution. Its ease of use means that non-technical staff can upload content and we now have a secure platform for all communication and knowledge base documents and we don't need to worry about out-of-date documents and policies. We also have a central hub for all product images with the media library that our franchisees and advertising agency can access

Alison Phillips, Internal Communications Manager

Our managers are exceptionally busy and it's important that they can quickly and easily access the correct form or policy, whether they are in the office, working from home or a service base. A reliable and engaging intranet has the capability of transforming the way we communicate with each other and share knowledge and expertise

Peter Longley, Intranet Project Manager at West Ham United

Interact will help staff retrieve information quickly due to its powerful and profiled search facility. Our current set up means staff spending lots of time looking for documents such as forms, policies and procedures. This can now be done in a matter of seconds rather than minutes, sometimes hours, enabling staff to focus on more important areas of the business and increase productivity

Isabel Dove, Business Services Director, West Kent Housing Association

Odyssey's expertise and unrivalled reputation in providing successful intranet and website solutions to the social housing sector make them the natural choice for us.

Sharon Woodward, HR Manager at Mobilis

Interact's additional plug in modules were more sophisticated and feature rich than those offered by other solutions, yet still easy to use.

Helen Thomas, Web Communications Manager

We chose Interact primarily because it is so easy to use by non-technical members of our team, which is a massive advantage when it comes to rolling it out across the charity.

Mike Yarde, Director of IMS at Affinity Sutton

We were impressed with the look and feel of this 'off the shelf' product, and the apparent ease to set it up to produce a comprehensive intranet for our complex Group.

Martin Ward, Intranet Project Manager, HMV

We see Odyssey as a partner company. They have the infrastructure in place to help us roll out a successful intranet whilst providing us with ongoing future support.

Megan Simmons, Internal Communications Manager, UK&I, ADT Fire & Security

Interact is making a big difference to the way we work at ADT. It helps us share information, news and knowledge and is helping to further develop our 'One ADT' culture. The Workflow & Forms Manager is an extremely sophisticated and powerful module that is simple and intuitive to use and will dramatically reduce our process times.

Simon Went, Systems Development Manager, Calor

We were looking for a solution that would galvanise Calor's intranet, give site owners freedom to update their sites and at the same time take the IT Department out of the maintenance loop. The Odyssey Interact package looks modern and professional and we were able to quickly prove within a pilot that it delivers to all of our requirements. The package itself and the benefits it can bring proved very easy to sell to our business users and board of directors. As supplier, Odyssey has been proactive, helpful and accommodating throughout our dealing so far.

Carl Novelli, Network Analyst, TRACKER UK

Odyssey were fantastic. The intranet hasn’t even been fully rolled out yet and we can already see a decrease in the number of emails that are sent around with general company information. It’s an invaluable induction tool for new starters too – everything they need is in one place and if they have to meet someone in the company, they can just go to the contacts section and find a picture of them alongside all the info they need.

Georgie Porter, Communications Officer, Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue

Odyssey worked with us to ensure we achieved the best value solution to our requirements and within six months of initial contact with Odyssey, we had our intranet solution, I:DRIVE, successfully up and running in our organisation.

Fran Puddick, e-information Officer, North East Derbyshire District Council

We examined a number of different solutions and formally assessed three intranet providers. A group of Officers from various service areas were delegated to help write our requirement specification and to assess the various suppliers’ offerings. Overall, Interact scored highest against our key requirements. It also had the right balance between being easy to use with its intuitive interface yet offering a feature rich, flexible and powerful solution.

Richard Bevan, ICT Manager, Royal Academy of Dance

As a charity, cost is often a key concern. Interact offered great functionality and flexibility which is important to us, and all at a very reasonable price.

John C Brick, IT Manager, Carr-Gomm

Interact is an easy-to-use, visually appealing and cost-effective solution. It was important for us to find a supplier who we felt we could work with over the long term. From the outset of the project Odyssey has been prepared to ‘go the extra mile’ to achieve our requirements and their market leading position within the Housing Association Arena speaks for itself. Their approach is that of working with us as a team rather than just a software supplier.

Mark Morton, Digital Media Manager, Epilepsy Action

Interact has a proven and impressive track record of delivering major, measurable efficiency savings to organisations such as ours. We evaluated a number of solutions and Interact offered us the best solution; it is feature rich and offers exceptional functionality at a reasonable cost. We were very impressed with Odyssey’s knowledge and expertise and their consultative approach is very valuable; they focussed on our needs and gained a complete understanding of our objectives demonstrating that they are more of a partner than merely software vendors.

Peter Christian, Information and Communications Technology Manager, Optima Community Association

Interact is easy to use, has an attractive and intuitive interface and the burden on our IT team is greatly reduced as key administrators in different departments can easily update the intranet so content is valid and up to date. We are particularly impressed with features such as the Absence Manager Module which is a great addition to our intranet; our HR team can manage staff absences with all the facilities of an advanced HR system including a reporting facility to examine absence trends.

Ken Bradshaw, Head of IT Strategy and Implementation, Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust

Odyssey has helped us make our intranet a more effective business tool with elements such as the Football Challenge module, which has proved really popular with our users. Injecting a fun element into the intranet helps build staff morale and demonstrates that the intranet is more than simply a portal for corporate information.

Justian Cross, Director of IT, Loch Lomond Golf Club

We have lots of information stored in mapped drives and it’s very difficult to find and retrieve information. It was essential the new intranet was very easy to use both from an end user and administrator’s perspective. Interact’s powerful and sophisticated content management platform has been designed for users with non-IT skills – users can easily contribute content to and maintain the intranet. This will allow departments to take ownership of their areas of the intranet which is key to the success of the project.

Luke Alders, ICT Manager, Tradeteam

Interact is a fantastic fit to our intranet requirements. The modular construction gives us the ability to add functionality to suit our needs. We were very impressed with the range of sophisticated business applications available with Interact which combine ease of use with powerful and comprehensive functionality, such as the Room and Resource Manager. The ability to tailor the intranet to our corporate branding was also a big factor when opting for Interact and will help with the re-branding exercise which we are currently undertaking.

Lowri Williams, Intranet Project Manager, International Bar Association

Interact will provide us with a platform for the distribution of information and reports as a preferred medium to email, therefore reducing the strain on the email system due to the large nature of many of these reports. It will also provide us with a user-friendly platform which will make the process of obtaining information more efficient leading to a reduction in duplication of effort and protracted searches for key information.

Vikas Malhotra, Project Manager, Hoyer UK

Before Odyssey came in we had something of a vacuum in terms of internal communications – no quick means of contacting remote employees, no staff directories, no means of automating small business forms. Interact was a very sensible product for the price and the success we have seen in the UK has since convinced us to roll it out in Ireland and Finland. We estimate that we received a return on our investment in less than two years of using the intranet.

Sue Beesley, Commercial Director, Network Defence

Interact is the operational core of our business... it is delivering real business benefits to Network Defence.

Nick Smith, IMechE

We have 2-3 new starters every month and we used a big plastic file for the staff handbook, which contained over 100 pages of printed information and specially printed card inserts/separators issued to each one. Over a number of years, the savings will be considerable. In addition, we have put links to online telephone directories onto the intranet, which is saving us on average £120 a month.

Mike Bullock , Assistant Chief Executive, Fylde PCT

With more than 2,000 members of staff we were looking for a system that would reduce the time spent looking up information regarding external contacts and performance reports. The intranet now allows us to share information at the click of a button and Interact is so easy to use even the non-IT staff can keep the site up-to-date with minimal training.

Hazel Aston, Manager, Lancashire And South Cumbria Cancer Research Network

Interact provided a cost-effective solution to enable us to record trial activity whilst maintaining the security of patient data.

Marilyn Philbin, Information Systems Manager, Mosscare Housing Association

The intranet is very straightforward to use, it enables us to manage content changes ourselves, meaning the intranet can be kept up to date without additional investment.

Mike Bell (IT) Services, Pfizer Adams

We selected Interact as the core for replacing our existing intranet because it provides a consistent environment for navigation within the site. Interact allows us to pass on activities to key users in each department reducing the need for 'IT to do everything'.

Colin Arnold, South Liverpool Housing Association

We looked at various intranet solutions and chose Interact as it offered advanced functionality at a reasonable cost. This, coupled with the fact that it could be implemented quickly as well as being extremely easy to use made Interact the most judicious choice. We have not been disappointed; Interact is well used by our staff who can access up to date information quickly and find its straightforward and intuitive interface easy to use. Features such as staff birthdays encourage regular usage which is vital to the success of the intranet.

Stephen Cole, Managing Director, UPPM

Interact provides us with the perfect solution for our requirements; we needed a system that could be accessed by our staff across the world, could be deployed quickly and be easily updated by non technical users. Interact will be a critical tool in creating a collaborative working environment for our users.

Sarah Wright, Marketing Manager, ECL

Having looked at various intranet options, we felt that Interact gave us the flexibility and functionality we needed at a reasonable price. We needed a simple, easy to use system to suit all levels of IT abilities, whilst at the same time giving a professional image to company communications. The feedback we have received supports this objective and the consensus of opinion is that the system is very professional and easy to navigate. A good level of support was given when the system was introduced and any technical queries we had were resolved efficiently and speedily.

Steve Gray, Aptus Personnel

We looked at many options and decided on the Interact product and have not been disappointed. Its appeal lies in that it looks good, it’s simple to add content and it forces standards by its design. Buying an out of the box intranet saved my team of developers time and meant installation was fairly immediate.

Ian Tinsley, IT Manager, Accord Housing

Apart from the huge benefit the helpdesk module has given to the IS Team, we now have an intranet that is structured, functional and provides all staff with an unlimited resource of readily searchable information. Once we had seen the capabilities of Interact, the layout, the modular approach, and the ease with which staff can add content without extensive training, this was the product for Accord. The sales and support teams have provided a first class service during the implementation and we aim to continually to develop Interact with other additional modules.

Karl Bragg, IT Manager, Music Factory Entertainment Group

We have a skilled IT team at Music Factory and wanted a flexible software solution which we could use as a development platform and develop/manage in house. We also wanted to invest in the more traditional intranet tools in order to improve communication among our teams. Interact provided the ideal solution and its scalability is one of the key benefits that continues to position it as the central software at Music Factory.

Ken O’Donoghue, Director of IS at Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts

As a charity cost is a key decision factor; Odyssey provided us with a very flexible package within our budget requirements allowing us to implement a high specification intranet. Features such as the Knowledge Management resource, Document Management and the built in Staff directory will offer significant benefits to our organisation, improving communication and reducing administration costs.