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Abbey is now part of the Santander group.
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Milton Keynes is not so bad, when you get used to it.
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This was the logo before many changes in Abbey National ownership
Customer Technologies Projects
Abbey National
Milton Keynes
July 1997 - January 1998
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Abbey is now part of the Santander group
During the 1970s and 1980s, Abbey National gained a reputation for innovation and, sometimes disruptive, change. It was an early user of computer systems and in the late 1970s, all branches became on-line to a real-time system that maintained customer accounts. 

In 1989 the Abbey National Building Society demutualised and became a public limited company — Abbey National plc. It was the first of the UK building societies to demutualise, doing so on 12 July. Abbey floated on the London Stock Exchange at £1.30 per share, resulting in an unusually large number of small shareholders — approximately 1.8 million initially. Abbey National shares peaked at more than £14 in 2000, before the stock market began a long decline.

On 26 July 2004 Abbey National plc and Banco Santander Central Hispano, SA announced that they had reached agreement on the terms of a recommended acquisition by Banco Santander of Abbey.

 
My Role :
  • Requirement Analysis
  • Design and Specification
  • Development of  a company-wide application to provide on-line reporting and build the web interfacing
  • Data migration and data cleaning from legacy systems.
  • Writing of test plans and execution of formal UAT.
  • Devising deployment strategy and building the deployment mechanisms.
  • Training of software development personnel
  • Documentation of applications and internal procedures
  • Application Support
Microsoft Access was used for the database development.
Reports were also generated in Excel
The web elements were hosted on IIS
The reporting was available on the intranet.
External files were FTP'd, controlled by the application
The User web pages were part of an ASP website
Visual Interdev was used to write the User web pages
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Internet Information Server was used to host the MS Access Active Server Pages
Distributed Reporting System
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Visual Interdev was used with MS Access to produce Active Server Pages
Designed and built a series of phases of a complex distributed reporting application, and implemented it on the changing computer network topography. This project was controlled formally by a Project Manager.

The initial Phase was to build a runtime Access application, and distribute it as a runtime system. This succeeded and saved the company considerable potential costs in license savings.

As the customer's intranet expanded, the application was converted to run on the MS Internet Information Server. Visual Interdev was used with MS Access to produce Active Server Pages. During this period, further phases of functionality were added to the system. Some facilities ran both as rich-client deployments and as ASP web pages, whilst sharing the same back-ends.