Case Studies
Provident Financial partners with Node4 for data centre outsourcing
Provident Financial specialises in home credit for private individuals, loans of typically £300 to £400 with repayments collected weekly from customers’ homes. It has some highly specific sector needs such as weekly reporting and also supports over 180 branch offices and 12,000 self employed agents across the UK and Ireland.
A year ago, Provident Financial undertook a review of its business and decided that it should consolidate and outsource its data centre operations as part of its planned move of its Bradford HQ (on the outskirts of Bradford) to a new location in the city centre. A significant factor to the move was that the cost of building a new data centre would be in excess of £7-8million which was a significant up-front investment. The company previously used four data centres located at various points across the UK and Northern Ireland but wanted a data centre supplier which was locally sited (to supply the time-critical access its staff required); provided the state-of-the-art facilities it wanted; and was focussed on excellent customer service. Additionally it had extremely tight deadlines as the move had to be completed in 12 months.
Provident_Financial_Node4.pdf
Supplier:Node4
End-User: Provident Financial
