Focus Group Holdings (Focus), is a £70 million turnover company that holds the UK license for such sportswear brands as Converse, Ecko, Le Coq Sportif, Head, and Hummel. Focus has two offices in the UK and operations in Hong Kong and Indonesia.

Focus required a software solution that could link all of their offices and merge all systems onto one platform. Before installing Aria, the company's old systems were a mixture of standalone packages, such as Varnet and Sage, and numerous Access databases and spreadsheets.

After almost a year of carefully evaluating alternatives, Focus chose Aria over several other apparel systems providers. The impetus behind their decision was the end-to-end functionality and ease of use of the Aria product suite, as well as the ability to hold all information in a central database and present it in a comprehensive view, accessible by any member of the group with sufficient user privileges.

An initial 40-user system, installed at the company's UK headquarters, went live in June, while the remaining locations are scheduled to go live in the next few months.