Athlon Car Lease Portugal was the first to go live with the system, following successful implementations in the company’s divisions in Spain and Italy earlier this year, ahead of a wider European roll-out over the next 24 months.

The second implementation was at McMillan Shakespeare, a leading provider of salary packaging and vehicle leasing administration in Australia, following the company’s decision to migrate to Miles from Sofico’s first-generation software, Leasebase.

The Miles solution includes a pre-configured Reference Implementation setup that reflects common processes and best practices within the leasing and fleet management industry. In combination with the Miles implementation methodology, this considerably reduces the time taken to implement the system, and is said to be typically significantly faster than many standard system implementations.

As a result, the implementation at Athlon’s Portuguese operation in the capital, Lisbon, was completed in the record time of a little over four months, further helped by a specific configuration process developed with Athlon and based on joint workshops held in Italy and Spain prior to the Portugal project.

‘These two new successful implementations show the real benefit of the Miles pre-configured Reference Implementation setup, which not only reflects common processes and best practices within the leasing and fleet management industry but is also highly configurable and flexible,’ said Jan Bouckaert, head of business development at Sofico.