Business challenge

With the efficient processing of new house sales dependent on IT, Crest Nicholson needs a reliable and flexible infrastructure – especially in today’s challenging housing market. Crest Nicholson’s IT environment had built up over a number of years by adding infrastructure as required. This meant that it lacked standardisation and resilience and was time-consuming to support. To address this, Crest Nicholson embarked on an IT transformation programme.

Computacenter solution

Computacenter is helping to design, procure, configure and install a new IT environment for Crest Nicholson, which the company will then manage as part of a five-year contract. The infrastructure refresh programme includes new desktops and laptops, virtualised servers and a centralised storage area network (SAN) to protect business critical data and emails. By introducing new technologies such as Microsoft SharePoint, Crest Nicholson intends to increase collaboration and enhance its document management capabilities.

Results

The partnership with Computacenter has helped Crest Nicholson simplify IT management and will free up staff for strategic enablement. The new IT infrastructure will reduce business risk, increase productivity and speed up the provisioning of IT at new housing development sites.