The Alnwick Garden is one of Northumberland's most visited attractions. A magical landscape on a grand scale, where novel architectural forms and ingenious landscaping unite with meticulous planting and spectacular water displays - the centrepiece being the Grand Cascade, the largest water feature of its kind in the UK.
Europe's largest treehouse - an enormous complex of turret-topped cottages linked by suspended walkways - lies outside the garden walls, and is home to a truly unique restaurant.
The implementation of Dream by Hexagon has significantly increased the efficiency of the Trust's accounting, administrative and reporting processes and perhaps more importantly, the visibility and availability of key management information.
Hexagon has integrated Dream with The Garden's specialist ticketing, retail and catering systems; automatically deriving and posting complex accounting entries, which previously involved re-keying data from various reports into spreadsheets and then in summary form into the finance system.
The Dream system now acts as a central repository for both financial and statistical values providing the basis for key management reports which are now produced automatically and are available daily on a real-time basis.
