CAT has an extremely successful and long-term relationship with Prudential and more recently PruTech. CAT personnel have been involved with all aspects of the technical design and architecture of the standard PC and server infrastructure and builds deployed by PruTech to the various businesss units within Prudential.

Below we highlight some of the roles and responsibilities that CAT has performed on behalf of Prudential and PruTech.

Technical Architecture: Responsible for the design, management and overall governance of all aspects of the development of the standard desktop and server builds, environments and infrastructure used within Prudential and PruTech.

More recently, CAT has been responsible for providing the technical architecture and design input for a project to replace the Prudential's Help Desk, Problem and Change Management systems. This is being upgraded from a Mainframe-based service to one hosted on a Windows NT and Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure.

In addition, CAT has been responsible for managing the development and implementation of various initiatives to reduce the cost of supporting the standard PC desktop and server environment used by the Prudential's various business units.

Development Team Leadership: Responsible for a team of 12 developers, designers and infrastructure specialists. This role involved planning, resource scheduling, project reporting to multiple, complex projects and budget management. CAT was also responsible for carrying out a complete re-design of the Prudential's Windows NT domain design looking at the location and number of domain controllers, DHCP and WINS servers and the implementation of a new Resource domain.

Responsible for the design, installation and testing of standard workstation and server builds for a deployment to the entire Prudential branch network. This involved co-ordinating and managing a team of developers and infrastructure specialists who were responsible for creating a standard, automated branch server build based on Windows NT 4.0 and deploying this to more than 90 branches throughout the United Kingdom.

Technical Project Management: Responsible for all technical aspects of migrating 1,500 users from Windows 3.1 to a Windows NT 4.0 standard build. This involved migrating all users, applications and data to a new PC desktop, server and network infrastructure, managing the design, installation, configuration and testing of the server infrastructure to support the above migration project and liaison between the business, the project team and technical resources to ensure all aspects of the technical side of the project were delivered on time.