The National Trust is a conservation charity established in 1894 to preserve and protect countryside and buildings of significance in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. A well-respected British institution, it has grown to become one of the UK’s largest charities and Europe’s largest conservation organisation.
They look after 780 miles of coastline, more than 250,000 hectares of land, over 500 historic houses, castles, parks, and gardens and nearly one million works of art.
The National Trust (NT) utilises Oracle E-Business Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Modules to manage its direct debit collection for its extensive membership base of 5.6 million members, as well as the management of donations from the wider public. These memberships and donations equate to two-thirds of NT’s annual revenue, making this CRM system business-critical.
Their in-house functional and technical delivery development team were finding it difficult to manage the amount of support and change work on their CRM System that was being directed at them.
Looking to the long-term future, the National Trust undertook a formal procurement process in order to select a new partner for the delivery of DBA and Hosting for the CRM System.