History

M4 Systems was formed in July 2000 by Gary Clarke, Dave Saunders, Darren Channon and Carl Ray. Gary Clarke had previously been a finance director of a company where he had selected and implemented one of the first Great Plains (Dynamics GP) systems in the UK. All of the founders had already acquired several years' Great Plains experience at another company this was the initial focus of the company - selling implementing and supporting ERP systems based upon Great Plains (now Dynamics).

Even during a severe IT recession (2001 to 2004) the company grew significantly, adding prestigious clients, such as The London Stock Exchange, Helphire Group plc and South Wales Fire and Rescue Service (over 50 fire stations)

In June 2004 M4 achieved accreditation for Microsoft CRM and shortly after this sold and implemented a CRM system at Manx Telecom, a division of O2.

In September 2004 M4 Systems were extremely proud and delighted to receive Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status

In April 2005 M4 Systems signed a contract to replace a JD Edwards system at South East Water with Great Plains - to include Accounting, Business Intelligence, eProcurement and Document Management. This major win against Oracle, SAP and Axapta demonstrated the scalability of Great Plains and the compelling value in comparison to Tier 1 products. It also clearly demonstrated the ability of M4 Systems to implement and support business critical applications for a major organisation.

In November 2005 M4 Systems opened a Support and Development Centre in Belgrade, Serbia. This was done to improve customer support to the highest possible standard and to provide further development capability.  We are extremely pleased with the European culture in Belgrade and with the large availability of high calibre, English-speaking IT professionals. We have now built up a team which enables us to take on very significant .NET development projects. This team works very well collaborating with and complementing our UK support and development teams.

In May 2006 M4 Systems started the project of implementing a 130 user CRM system at CACHE -  Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education. We helped them to rapidly implement this system, configure it to match their requirements and go live in August 2006.