London, July 3, 2023: Praesto Consulting UK Ltd has completed the acquisition of Emprisia Limited, a leading UK based Salesforce implementation consultancy. The acquisition represents Praesto’s 3rd in the last 15 months, as the consulting group continues its growth trajectory and enhancement of service offerings for customers. Founded in 2017 by Pip Dudrah, Gareth Antcliff and David Cairns, Emprisia are Salesforce Implementation experts that have delivered projects for nearly 100 organisations. Their impressive roster of clients includes BAFTA, Hive, The Royal Photographic Society, as well as Fauna & Flora International. Growing its Salesforce practice has been a strategic goal for Praesto to become the leading specialist CRM/CX consultancy in the UK; as Salesforce and its ecosystem of partners are estimated to generate $1.6 trillion in new global corporate revenues by 2026. ​​​Jem Ranson, CEO, Praesto Consulting Group, said; ‘I am delighted to welcome Pip, David and Gareth and the rest of the Emprisia team into the Praesto family. Emprisia are an extremely strong team with a laser focus on delivering the best solutions possible for their customers, which has cultivated an enviable reputation for delivering complex Salesforce projects and the status of being a key Salesforce partner.’ Ranson continued, ‘Their deep platform experience adds a host of new capabilities to our existing Salesforce team which will help drive new growth in this important market for us. Praesto have long been a leading Tableau partner, since Salesforce acquired Tableau, we are in a fantastic position to deliver across multiple technologies for our growing customer base.’​​ The three Emprisia founders said of the acquisition: ‘We are incredibly proud of what we have built and together with the wider team, we are thrilled to be taking this forward with Praesto. We are looking forward to continuing our commitment to customers, partners and Salesforce and also incredibly excited to be exploring the additional scale and broader services that this will open up for them. Both Emprisia and Praesto have a strong heritage of working with nonprofit customers and membership organisations and we are excited to continue this as part of Praesto’s Salesforce Practice, whilst also being focussed on other key industries.’ The acquisition expands Praesto Consulting Group’s team to 145+ delivery specialists. Emprisia will join the Praesto UK business ​with the existing management team running its Salesforce Practice alongside​ Paul Sexton as the UK Managing Director. The acquisition of Emprisia by Praesto Consulting UK Ltd is effective immediately. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. About Praesto Consulting: Praesto Consulting delivers IT consultancy to global clients with offices in London, New York, San Diego, Paris, Dublin, Rotterdam, and Lisbon. They specialise in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer Experience (CX), Data Strategy, Data Insights, and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). Clients come to Praesto for their heritage and expertise; they stay because of their commitment to successful project delivery and the reputation for being the trusted experts. 

The Charity Times Awards are taking place this week and it's great to see Emprisia customers are involved! Film and TV Charity have been nominated in the 'Best Use of Technology' category. We collaborated on Film + TV Charity's entry to the awards for its 'Covid-19 Emergency Relief Fund'. The technology provided helped the Charity process and distribute much needed funds to help freelancers and individuals within the Film and TV industry who had been effected by Covid-19. Our customer Career Ready recently went live with their revamped solution. We helped the team improve their use of Salesforce, Communities and Pardot solution last month. Career Ready aim to help young individuals have the skills and knowledge when entering the world of work. We're thrilled to see them in the shortlist for the "Charity of the Year" category as well as a nomination in the 'Corporate National Partnership of the Year with a Financial Institution' category. Dogs Trust is also shortlisted in the "Campaign of the Year" category. The Charity is the UK’s largest dog welfare charity which aims to rehome and rescue dogs, whilst educating and campaigning for animal rights. The Charity has previously won awards for its political campaigns against dog smuggling. The Charity Times Awards aim to recognise the work, dedication and contribution of charities. We're super-excited for the awards ceremony on Thursday evening and can't wait to find out the results! Best of luck to all charities involved! Full shortlist details for the awards can be found here .

Congratulations to one of our founder team, David Cairns, who has been invited to take a role on the Salesforce.org Partner Advisory Board for EMEA. We look forward to participating in this exciting initiative via his membership. The Partner Advisory Board is a council of Salesforce.org Partners and Staff dedicated to address and work on the biggest challenges we face in serving Nonprofit and Education organisations across EMEA. Membership facilitates feedback and alignment to the work Salesforce.org are doing now and developments for the future.

The Covid-19 Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund launches today to provide much-needed support to the many thousands of active workers and freelancers who have been hit hardest by the closure of productions across the UK. Created by The Film and TV Charity in close partnership with the BFI, the fund opens for applications supported by initial donations totaling £2.5 million from Netflix, the BFI, BBC Studios, BBC Content, WarnerMedia and several generous individuals. Alan de Sousa Caires, the charity's Director of Finance and Operations said "Emprisia’s support has been amazing and enabled us to go from idea to live system in under 3 weeks, to rapidly deliver this much needed Fund to those in the industry impacted by the Coronavirus crisis." For more information about the Fund, please visit: https://filmtvcharity.org.uk/news-event/covid-19-relief-fund-launches/ The work completed on this project won 'The Best Use of Technology Award' at the Charity Times Awards 2020. Congratulations to all involved! (Republished September 2020)

We are excited to share that Emprisia is sponsoring the Salesforce.org DOT org conference in London on Wednesday, 2nd October! The DOT org conference is conceived for one reason: to bring together nonprofit changemakers to accelerate their missions and drive impact. We hope you will join us for a full day of thought leadership, opportunities to connect and inspirational speakers. The keynote speaker is media phenomenon and Sky News' The Pledge panelist, June Sarpong. Participate in additional sessions including: A session on “Impacting Responsibly” with New Philanthropy Capital, Centre of Nonprofits & Philanthropy, Candid & New Tech Fest Trends and best practices as we approach the key year-end fundraising period. Lots more on the the rest of the agenda here . Register today and we hope to see you there!

We are delighted and proud to be selected by Salesforce.org to feature as their Partner of the Month for August 2019. Thank you to all our team, our clients, and partners for making this happen! Please help us spread the word by liking and sharing the posts below, on your favourite social media...

We are delighted to be sponsoring chase live (4th July, The Brewery, London) – and it’s free to attend!

Having supported Not-For-Profit organisations for over 5 years, Emprisia is pleased to announce that we can now make it official! We are honoured to be part of the few in the industry to have gained the first ever Nonprofit certification by Salesforce. The Nonprofit Cloud Consultant certification covers the fundamental building bricks of any implementation in the not-for-profit space: Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) settings and administration Nonprofit cloud data management Nonprofit cloud analytics Domain expertise Nonprofit cloud solution design Nonprofit implementation strategies and best practices Salesforce says: “A Salesforce Certified Nonprofit Cloud Consultant designs and deploys solutions that support customer business processes and requirements using Salesforce applications. The consultant has experience designing solutions using the Nonprofit Cloud functionality and can lead the implementation of these solutions within a customer organisation. The consultant has both experience working with nonprofit organisations and expertise in Salesforce applications including the knowledge needed to implement multiple applications in common customer scenarios. The Salesforce Certified Nonprofit Cloud Consultant is able to successfully design and implement Nonprofit Cloud solutions that meet customer business requirements, are maintainable and scalable, and contribute to long-term customer success.” Well done to David, one of our Managing Partners, for acing this one! He has has over 8 years of experience as a senior business analyst and expertise as cloud computing implementation consultant with a specialty in the not-for-profit space. In gaining the Nonprofit Cloud Consultant qualification, David has proven he has a very particular set of skills: Experience managing implementation projects Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Working knowledge of Salesforce product lines Solid understanding of internet technologies and cloud computing Solid understanding of data management and database concepts Familiarity with the software development lifecycle Nonprofit Domain expertise How salesforce solutions interact with the nonprofit success pack If you would like to hear more about our Nonprofit experience, speak to our clients about how we have helped them or want to talk to us about your CRM implementation needs then please book a FREE 30-min consultation call below.

Into Film's journey to defining its CRM Roadmap and its approach to managing Governance, Delivery & User Adoption. This has re-defined how the charity relates to CRM and drives its expanding use of Salesforce to achieve success.