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AXA appointed Vizone to implement the core administration platform for its Protection Account which offers a range of lifestyle protection products, including Life Cover, Critical Illness Cover and Income Protection. The stability of the platform has allowed AXA to expand its business and win several awards in the Life Insurance market, including winner of What Mortgage Magazine's award for Best Life Insurance Provider in 2007.
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One of the leading providers of water and wastewater services in the UK, Anglian Water is located in the east of England. AWG decided that radical restructuring of the business was required to gain maximum benefit for all stakeholders whilst clarifying regulatory issues in relation to the regulated and non-regulated parts of the business.
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Following a decision to transfer from equity to bond financing by the Anglian Water PLC (AWG) a new ring-fenced service organisation AWS needed to be set up to satisfy bond holders. Vizone were employed to assist in creating the new organisation serving over 6 million customers with a turnover of £750 million per annum.
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British Energy is a multi-national nuclear power generation organisation that operates all of the UK’s nuclear power stations and employs over 5,200 staff. Vizone was employed directly by British Energy to define, design and rapidly implement new mission critical business improvement systems.
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A FTSE 100 company, British Energy Group plc is the UK’s largest producer of electricity and the lowest carbon emitter of the major UK electricity generators. With a dedicated workforce of about 6,000 skilled professionals, they produce around one-sixth of the nation's electricity. British Energy had serious operating problems and their shares were suspended whilst a Business Transformation Consortia (BTC) was brought in to radically overhaul their organisation to improve dramatically their operational performance levels.
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Vizone were employed by CitiBank to ASSURE and DELIVER a two part programme involving the redesign of their Front Office FX trading systems and to deliver a new settlement system for Foreign Exchange. Opening for business in New York in 1812, CitiBank has been in the UK for over 100 years opening its first retail branch in 1995 they now have 5 UK branches in London.
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Vizone were asked to lead a major business transformation programme to enable HMCE to comply with new government initiatives on e-business. Vizone led the programme to strengthen HMCE’s financial management processes, procedures and controls.
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Vizone were approached to provide asset management consultancy for integration of the Infraco BCV and Metronet asset proposals on the national asset register including a full review of working procedures, processes and operational effectiveness. Infraco BCV Ltd / Metronet are the infrastructure management company that are now responsible for the Bakerloo, Central and Victoria lines of the London Underground. .
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Vizone were appointed to deliver the Group’s business optimisation programme to integrate twelve brands and three separate organisations into a single Target Operating Environment. Littlewoods Shop Direct Group (LSDG) is a British retail company, based in Liverpool, England.
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Due to their experience and knowledge on Acquisitions and Joint Ventures, Vizone were asked by Network Rail to supply Asset Management, technical and IS advice in support of their acquisition of Railtrack PLC.
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Vizone’s relationship with Vodafone started with a project to undertake a full Healthcheck of their major strategic business optimisation Voice Over Protocol (VOP) programme.
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Vodafone made the UK’s first mobile call on the 1st January 1985. Today Vodafone is the world’s leading international mobile telecommunications group with equity interests in 27 countries across 5 continents, 186.8 million proportionate customers and around 33 partner networks.
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Vizone has a long history of working with Vodafone, first being appointed to work on the company’s Voice Over Protocol (VOP) Project. The success of this project encouraged Vodafone to recommend Vizone to one of its competitors, Orange, for the implementation of the two company’s SharedRan Joint Venture.
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Vizone were appointed by 24seven to act as the consultancy responsible for the ‘embedding’ of 24seven’s corporate asset register for Eastern (TXU) and London Electricity distribution networks. 24seven Utility Services Ltd (Work and Asset Management) was created in 2000 to manage the electricity distribution networks in London and Eastern areas of the United Kingdom, by its parent companies, London Electricity and TXU Europe. Formed to bring the management of power networks under a single organisation to yield economies the two shareholders, the company was subsumed into the London Electricity Group in 2004 and then became part of EDF Energy during a takeover from the French utility EDF.
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Vizone were asked by Severn Trent Utility Services (STUS) to programme manage their contract to outsource the front and back office services of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council. A leading FTSE 100 company, Severn Trent Services is a leading supplier of water and wastewater treatment solutions.
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Kevan Mossman led the Southern Water to business change programme following their acquisition by Scottish Power. Southern water supply drinking water to more than one million households and treat and recycle wastewater from nearly two million households across Sussex, Kent, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
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Vizone were employed by Macquarie to be the lead advisor and asset manager for the ultimately successful consortium greensands (comprising UBS, Challenger Group, Access Capital, Hermes and JP Morgan) bidding to purchase Southern Water after they were put up for sale by their owners Royal Bank Finance in September 2007.
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Vizone was employed by Royal Bank of Scotland to develop and implement the IT integration change plan after the takeover of NatWest and Coutts. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group has grown from small beginnings nearly 300 years ago to become one of the largest financial services groups in the world. Their brands operate around the globe to provide banking services for individuals, businesses and institutions. In more than 50 countries around the world RBS provide a range of retail and corporate banking, consumer finance, insurance and wealth management services.
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Vizone were employed by Scottish Widows to implement an ALIS Policy Administration Solution to support the underwriting of the Virgin Money range of protection covers. The new protection proposition offered customers a range of affordable, simple to understand protection covers directly through the internet.
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Thames Water is the UK's largest water and wastewater services company. Every day they supply 2,600 million litres of tap water to 8.5 million customers across London and the Thames Valley and remove and treat 2,800 million litres of sewage for an area covering 13.5 million customers.
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Vizone was appointed by UNUM to implement a performance improvement programme around its policy administration platform, whilst also improving the delivery capability of UNUM’s administration solution provider.
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