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Leading extranet provider UNIT4 Collaboration Software Limited (formally Business Collaborator Limited) is a pioneer in collaboration software having developed our flagship product, Business Collaborator (BC), since 1994. We have years of experience delivering successful collaboration solutions to the construction industry and related sectors and can boast customers across all disciplines - from architects and consultants through to large contractors, developers, fit-out and facilities management. BC delivers value to both small and large projects and has been applied in areas as diverse as transport, utilities, finance and retail.

Customer care is paramount in everything we do and through our consultative led approach we are able to guide our customers through the minefield of decisions in order to bring about both tangible and intangible business benefits.

UNIT4 Collaboration Software Limited is based in Reading, Berkshire, UK and is part of UNIT4, which is headquartered in the Netherlands and listed on both the Dutch and Norwegian stock exchanges. The UNIT4 group is an international developer and distributor of integrated business information and management systems and security solutions, providing secure e-business solutions to its customers. It has around 3300 staff in 19 countries and 5200 client organisations.

Company Registered No. 4408739, VAT Registered No. 567554796
Registered Office: Methuen Park, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN14 0GB.

Did you know?

• BC has over 200 man-years of development and is based on the research into team working which encompassed IT, psychology and anthropology on an award winning European collaboration project.
• BC was first established as an independent commercial product in 1997, selling our first enterprise licence to Nationwide Building Society in 1998.
• UNIT4 Collaboration Software Limited is part of Unit 4 Agresso NV, which is headquartered in the Netherlands and is an international developer and distributor of integrated business information and management systems and security solutions, providing secure e-business solutions to its customers.
• We constantly strive for improvement in both collaborative products and culture. With this in mind, we are active members of the NCCTP (Network of Construction Collaboration Technology Providers), developing standards and promoting collaboration throughout the construction industry.
• UNIT4 Collaboration Software Limited were participants in the 3 year pan-European ECOSPACE project, which aimed to ensure that by 2012 every e-Professional in Europe will be empowered for real-time dynamic collaboration.