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Business development: When you click

A new online management system is greatly enhancing operational efficiencies at a nursery in south east London. Karen Faux finds out how it benefits staff and parents.

Nursery owners who are hands-on in the day-to-day running of their business have a big advantage when it comes to being innovative about how to take that business forward.

This certainly holds true for Tariq Ayyub who opened Rainbow Smiles Nursery in Dulwich in 2008. Since then, the 50-place nursery, which operates out of a three-story Victorian house, has gone from strength to strength.

Mr Ayyub also heads his own software company, Astec Solutions, and, in association with Rainbow Smiles, has developed a business software solution called Prism which he is now preparing to launch.

He calls the system an Enterprise Resource Planning solution (ERP), which will provide a nursery with an integrated real-time view of its core business processes.

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