Industry experience
Financial Services
IT Infrastructure Re-engineering
- Client
- Barclays Bank PLC
- Sector
- Financial Services
Project description
As part of a continuing drive to improve service and reduce costs Barclays Bank launched the ‘Data Centre Transformation (DCT)’ programme in late 1998.
DCT was a large-scale change programme (approximately 120 full time equivalent staff) which managed a complex series of changes to the Bank’s operational infrastructure.
The programme:
Directly reduced costs through consolidation of live operations into a single data centre (releasing two centres).
- Used a third party to provide capacity for development and for disaster recovery.
- Improved service through provision of an enhanced (’2 hour’) DR service for all S/390 applications.
- Simplified the underlying IT infrastructure as a base for further cost reduction and service improvement.
Chaucer Consulting supported the programme manager and the programme team through all programme stages from launch to completion.
The Chaucer support included: programme management, stakeholder communications, planning, business case and financial management, and technical support with a focus on end-to-end design and performance analysis.
