Bringing this public sector finance software into the ADVT folder allows us to supercharge a critical system of record with our deep AI heritage. We are not just helping public bodies record their data; we are using decades of proven automation expertise to transform how they predict, manage, and optimise every single taxpayer pound.
Strategic Acquisition Rationale:
Integra (formerly IBSS and before that part of Capita) was acquired by the ADVT Group from Capita to serve as our primary mission-critical system of record for financial management software in the public sector. By combining this enterprise accounting core with Integra DXP+ (Digital Experience Platform), we have created a unified cloud environment. This integration injects our legacy AI capabilities directly into state infrastructure, allowing public bodies to bridge front-end civic interactions with automated back-office financial compliance.
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Unifying Financial Integrity with Digital Experience
This specialised public sector finance software and digital experience platform provides a robust infrastructure engineered specifically for the intricate demands of local government, healthcare providers, and public bodies across the UK and Ireland. At its core, the platform acts as an unshakeable system of record. It manages complex fund accounting, strict budgetary controls, and statutory financial reporting. By unifying this financial engine with a sophisticated digital experience platform, the software transforms how public institutions manage their financial workflows and user journeys simultaneously.
The integration of advanced user-experience capabilities ensures that internal financial teams and external suppliers interact via an intuitive, accessible interface. This reduces training overheads, eliminates data entry errors, and breaks down the legacy technology silos that traditionally separate front-line public operations from corporate finance departments. The platform scales effortlessly to support organisations through structural reorganisations, ensuring complete transparency and data continuity.
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Driving Efficiency Through Automated Workflows
Manual invoice processing, complex procurement cycles, and multi-tier supplier validations often create massive operational bottlenecks within public sector finance departments. This public sector finance software resolves these friction points by automating the end-to-end purchase-to-pay lifecycle. It handles everything from electronic ordering and e-invoicing to automated matching and secure payment processing, dramatically lowering the cost per transaction for public bodies.
By embedding intelligent automation into daily workflows, the software automatically executes complex three-way matching between purchase orders, goods received notes, and incoming invoices. It flags discrepancies, detects duplicate submissions, and mitigates compliance risks before payments are authorised. This high level of automation frees skilled public sector finance professionals from mundane, repetitive administrative tasks, allowing them to focus their energy on strategic budget forecasting, resource allocation, and cost-reduction initiatives.
Optimised Multi-Entity Accounting for Shared Services
ADVT’s specialised public sector finance software – Integra - delivers a highly advanced, battle-tested framework for shared services and consolidated public sector operations. As local authorities, healthcare trusts, and emergency services increasingly consolidate their administrative overheads to drive regional efficiencies, they require an accounting engine that naturally masters multi-entity deployment. Our platform natively meets this challenge by providing a secure, multi-tenant cloud environment that allows multiple independent public bodies to share a single, standardised financial platform while strictly safeguarding their localised data boundaries.
The software utilises a sophisticated, hierarchical ledger architecture that simplifies complex multi-entity transactions, automated inter-company cross-charges, and high-volume corporate ledger consolidations. Instead of navigating separate, disconnected software installations, a centralised shared services team can oversee procurement, accounts payable, and statutory financial reporting across several distinct public organisations from a unified dashboard. This centralised approach scales operational capability exponentially, enabling shared service centres to process vast volumes of data without a corresponding increase in clerical headcount.
To guarantee complete regulatory compliance and regional security, the platform enforces granular, role-based access control rules across all shared networks. Financial administrators can be granted single-sign-on access to specific corporate ledgers or restricted to viewing data for a single municipal entity. This absolute segregation ensures that while processing efficiencies are maximised via a shared infrastructure, statutory data boundaries, public audit trails, and strict localised governance protocols remain perfectly intact and completely uncompromised.
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Strategic Acquisition Profile
Strategic Rationale: inSTREAM (formerly known as Celaton) was acquired to establish the definitive AI foundation for the entire ADVT Group. As an enterprise-grade intelligent document processing solution with an international operational footprint, this business provides the core machine learning and cognitive computing engine that we embed across our entire software portfolio. It cements our status as a tried and tested AI pioneer rather than a recent market entrant.
By operating within our cohesive software ecosystem, the Integra financial management platform directly integrates with our group-wide intelligent document processing capabilities. Instead of relying on traditional, rigid optical character recognition systems that fail whenever an invoice format changes, the financial software utilises advanced machine learning models. It extracts, interprets, and validates unstructured financial data from any format or channel automatically.
This integration delivers true straight-through processing for public finance departments. The system reads complex documents, cross-references internal ledgers, updates compliance archives, and routes data to the correct cost centres without human intervention. When a low-confidence threshold requires human insight, a public finance clerk teaches the system, permanently increasing its future accuracy. This collaborative loop ensures public sector organisations achieve unparalleled operational speed while maintaining flawless audit trails.
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