@UK plc
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@UK plc is an e-procurement
E-procurement
E-procurement is the business-to-business or business-to-consumer or Business-to-government purchase and sale of supplies, Work and services through the Internet as well as other informations and networking systems, such as Electronic Data Interchange and Enterprise Resource Planning.E-procurement...

 company specialising in spend analysis
Spend Analysis
Spend analysis is the process of collecting, cleansing, classifying and analyzing expenditure data with the purpose of reducing procurement costs, improving efficiency and monitoring compliance...

 and company formation
Company formation
Company formation is the term for the process of incorporation of a business in the UK. It is also sometimes referred to as company registration. Under UK company law and most international law a company or corporation is considered a separate entity to the people who own or operate the...

, headquartered in Aldermaston, England. It provides integration, purchase-to-pay
Purchase-to-pay
Purchase-to-pay, often abbreviated to P2P and also called req to check, refers to the business processes that cover activities of requesting , purchasing, receiving, paying for and accounting for goods and services.-Automation:...

 and spend analysis
Spend Analysis
Spend analysis is the process of collecting, cleansing, classifying and analyzing expenditure data with the purpose of reducing procurement costs, improving efficiency and monitoring compliance...

 to a number of British public sector organisations. @UK plc has formed over 200,000 companies, for many of which it provides hosting and generated websites.

@UK plc is the only company in the UK to provide automated spend analysis at item-level detail. This came about through a three-year research collaboration with the University of Reading
University of Reading
The University of Reading is a university in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. The University was established in 1892 as University College, Reading and received its Royal Charter in 1926. It is based on several campuses in, and around, the town of Reading.The University has a long tradition...

 and Goldsmiths College, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

.

In May, 2006, @UK plc acquired Coding International, a coding provider that has developed the National Supplier Vocabulary (NSV) for identifying functionally unique purchases.

On October 7, 2010, Richard Benyon
Richard Benyon
Richard Henry Ronald Benyon MRICS is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament for Newbury since 2005 and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since May 2010.-Early life:Benyon was born in...

, the Minister for the Natural Environment and Fisheries
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom...

 launched its green marketplace. This is a B2B
Business-to-business
Business-to-business describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer...

 marketplace, whose products have carbon footprint
Carbon footprint
A carbon footprint has historically been defined as "the total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused by an organization, event, product or person.". However, calculating a carbon footprint which conforms to this definition is often impracticable due to the large amount of data required, which is...

s, allowing for purchasers to offset
Carbon offset
A carbon offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for or to offset an emission made elsewhere....

 their carbon. It is the largest B2B marketplace in the UK, with over a million users.

Overview of business

@UK plc provides the following to customers
  1. Cloud Generator cloud platform
  2. SpendInsight spend analysis
    Spend Analysis
    Spend analysis is the process of collecting, cleansing, classifying and analyzing expenditure data with the purpose of reducing procurement costs, improving efficiency and monitoring compliance...

  3. GreenInsight and e2class green analysis
  4. e-procurement
    E-procurement
    E-procurement is the business-to-business or business-to-consumer or Business-to-government purchase and sale of supplies, Work and services through the Internet as well as other informations and networking systems, such as Electronic Data Interchange and Enterprise Resource Planning.E-procurement...

  5. SiteGenerator eCommerce
  6. email
    Email
    Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...

     services
  7. company formation
    Company formation
    Company formation is the term for the process of incorporation of a business in the UK. It is also sometimes referred to as company registration. Under UK company law and most international law a company or corporation is considered a separate entity to the people who own or operate the...

  8. domain name
    Domain name
    A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System ....

     registration
  9. green marketplace

PlatformGenerator/CloudGenerator

PlatformGenerator provides rapid application development of cloud software running on the @UK PLC cloud. The cloud is PCI/DSS compliant. @UK PLC claim it is the no1 cloud platform in the UK.

Source2Pay - eprocurement

Source2pay integrates the source to payment cycle from spend analysis
Spend Analysis
Spend analysis is the process of collecting, cleansing, classifying and analyzing expenditure data with the purpose of reducing procurement costs, improving efficiency and monitoring compliance...

 through to e-invoice.

GreenInsight

GreenInsight provides automated environmental analysis based on the output from SpendInsight. SpendInsight was created with work from University of Reading
University of Reading
The University of Reading is a university in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. The University was established in 1892 as University College, Reading and received its Royal Charter in 1926. It is based on several campuses in, and around, the town of Reading.The University has a long tradition...

 and Goldsmiths College, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. GreenInsight was created by combining this work with research by the Stockholm Environment Institute at York and its commercial offshoot CenSA (Centre for Sustainable Accounting).

GreenMarketplace

GreenMarketplace which uses @UK's automated and manual classification e2class to identify all the products on the @UK marketplace. Combined with CenSA's Input-Output models GreenMarketplace provides carbon footprints for all the individual products being purchased through the marketplace.

Ronald Duncan Chairman

Ronald Duncan co-founded @UK in 1999. Prior to @UK, he spent ten years running his own computer software consultancy, servicing projects using a range of languages and platforms. Ronald studied Physics at Cambridge and is a Chartered Physicist and Member of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers. He is a former UK downhill ski champion who competed internationally for ten years, including at two Olympics.

Lyn Duncan CEO

Lyn Duncan co-founded @UK in 1999, having gained a particular interest in the procurement field and has been actively working in this area since the late 1980s when she worked with Henley Management Consultants on a product which integrated purchasing and marketing processes. Her wider interest in technology developed when working for BT as a manager of emerging technologies such as shared computing and email into BT's corporate client base through a series of flagship business centres. Prior to founding @UK, she worked as a management consultant (both at Oasis and as an independent consultant leading on national initiatives within the NHS) gaining over ten years' experience of leading technology-driven change initiatives in the public and private sector.

David Holloway Non-Executive Director

David Holloway has over 20 years experience in IT, including working in successful start-ups. Most recently David was Chief Executive and co-founder of Codian Limited, which was set up in 2003 and sold to Tandberg in 2007 for $270M. David is now Senior Vice President of Network Products at TANDBERG ASA listed as TAA on the Oslo stock market.

Alice Morwood-Leyland Company Secretary

Alice Morwood-Leyland is a member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives. In this capacity under the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 she is a Commissioner for Oaths. She joined @UK PLC in 2002 from a local firm of solicitors and had previously worked for NatWest International Trust Corporation in the Cayman Islands.
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