Styles and Wood, the UK's leading retail and Property Services Company and winner of the Queens award for innovation in 2000, have gone live with Union Square Software's Enterprise Knowledge Portal.

Styles & Wood provides a broad range of property services to many of Britain's leading service organisations and retailers, including Marks and Spencer, Boots and Barclays. The company's services are fully integrated and span the entire store development process from design through all aspects of project implementation and a broad range of after sales services. 

Martin Ward IT Director at Styles and Wood explains what lead to the decision to work with Union Square: "I believe Styles & Wood have a reputation for pushing the boundaries. As a business we are constantly striving to do things better, leveraging internal knowledge offers huge potential.  Combined with this, we have a strategic requirement to integrate all project related data. Traditionally we have struggled to provide a seamlessly integrated environment for our employees and have relied upon a number of disparate systems that have held related but unconnected information on our projects.  Union Square's Workspace product provides us with a single environment through which we can manage everything that we know.  The rollout includes everyone who uses a PC in the business and delivers a consolidated environment for enquiry management, project data management and document control."

Will Yandell Commercial director at Union Square commented: " We are absolutely delighted to be working with Styles and Wood. They are recognised as leaders in their particular field and are the second £100m+ organisation to commit to Workspace in as many months.  We have moved from a position just a year ago of being relative unknowns to leaders in the Enterprise Portal market within the sector." www.union2.co.uk