# Help the Hospices chooses Ascent from CIBER UK for relationship management

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/09/13/help-hospices-chooses-ascent-ciber-uk-relationship-management/
- Published: 2005-09-13T12:34:21+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

National hospice charity Help the Hospices has selected the Ascent Relationship 
Management Solution from CIBER UK to provide a single, centralised view of all their
contact data to help ensure consistent, targeted communications with their supporters
and stakeholders.

Over time the charity has developed a number of different contact databases designed
for different purposes such as communicating with supporters, with palliative care
staff, and for training hospice staff. Help the Hospices staff realised however 
that the organisation needed to ensure that information was shared across the organisation
in order to be more effective. As a result, Simon Brasch, Database and Website manager,
launched a project to consolidate the range of existing databases onto one platform.

The charity received approaches from 11 suppliers, of which it chose CIBER UK’s 
product. Simon Eady, IT Support Manager at [Help the Hospices](http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk),
said: “The technical architecture of the Ascent Solution was an important consideration
in our decision making process. The .NET Framework will enable us to support remote
users and deliver a full range of functionality to them via the internet.”

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