{"id":50892,"date":"2025-07-31T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alistar.net\/?post_type=referentie&p=50892"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:36:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:36:45","slug":"zuyd-university-of-applied-sciences","status":"publish","type":"referentie","link":"https:\/\/alistar.net\/en\/referentie\/zuyd-hogeschool\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuyd University of Applied Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last year, we collaborated with Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. With campuses in Heerlen, Sittard, and Maastricht, and more than 14,000 students and 1,850 staff members, it is one of the medium-sized universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. Through a competitive bidding process, they sought a new implementation partner for their financial accounting software and for a simple time-tracking solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was an exciting process, at the end of which Alistar was ultimately chosen as a partner. We discuss how this process unfolded and what made the collaboration so enjoyable with Raymond Slijpen, an information professional at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Flexible from the start<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Raymond has been working at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences for 12.5 years now and has been involved in the bidding process and implementation from the very beginning. Raymond explains: \u201cWe were using Microsoft Dynamics, a 2009 version. It was no longer supported and no longer met our needs, so we put the project out to bid. We received a number of proposals, and then you choose the partner that seems best at that moment. It\u2019s quite a task to weigh all the pros and cons against each other. I deliberately say \u2018at that time,\u2019 because a demo can sound so promising, but only practice will show whether it\u2019s actually any good. So we chose Exact with Alistar as our implementation partner. The Alistar team was involved from the start and was very flexible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe demo team was also the implementation team, which was really nice.\u201d<\/p>\nRaymond Slijpen<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Flexible implementation <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
When asked what factors played a role in choosing Alistar, Raymond is clear: \u201cThe team\u2019s flexibility and willingness to collaborate, right from the start. And, of course, the first impression made by the people who gave the demo. It felt right away, and they ended up handling the implementation as well; that was a nice bonus. Their proactive involvement started right away, too. For example, we don\u2019t use projects in the way the project module is actually intended\u2014with the ultimate goal of sending invoices; we use it purely to track costs and hours associated with a grant. That, of course, depends on many conditions, and Alistar really thought through those with us. They were also well-versed in the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Exact Financials and the Hours Module<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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