Bacs website migration

31 May 2009

Bacs (Bacs Payment Schemes Limited), the organisation behind Direct Debit and Bacs Direct Credit, is a not for profit, membership based, industry body, which in 2008 was responsible for processing more than 5.6 billion UK payments, with a total value of £3.85 trillion.

Recent completion of a successful migration project has resulted in the Bacs corporate website, (www.bacs.co.uk), now being powered by Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and .NET. For this complex migration project, Method4 successfully moved the site to the new platform, away from Microsoft Content Management Server which is now reaching the end of its support life with Microsoft. The new Bacs website was rebuilt from scratch in SharePoint 2007 and leverages the power of .NET integration to provide flexible new features, and further enhancing in-house control by Bacs over the daily management of website content.

The new environment increases the speed of content deployment whilst providing a controlled release process for content managers.

"Working with Method4, the transition process was very smooth and well organised. Method4 are a competent and reliable trusted partner who were very reassuring in their ability to deliver a highly technical project in a timely manner, according to plan." Gill Hughes, Marketing Communications Manager, Bacs

The Bacs corporate website features multiple tiered levels of user access, online subscriptions and comprehensive FAQ sections. It covers over four hundred pages of content and hundreds of documents, both public facing and secure, for the use of member and agency banks, organisations which are users of the Bacs service, approved software suppliers and affiliates.

"The Bacs website is an essential resource for all of the key Bacs stakeholders as well as the wider payment services sector. It is essential that the site is highly available with content delivered quickly and in an informative manner. It has been highly gratifying to have been involved in successfully delivering this new platform for Bacs." Christian Coates, Managing Director, Method4