Bass taverns goes for NT on Cisco net

Bass Taverns has chosen Unisys Aquanta Pentium NT servers to run on its Cisco-based router network, announced earlier this month.

The deal, worth #9m, will see one Windows NT server and one printer installed at each of the 2,800 sites owned by Bass Taverns.

They will be accompanied by a Cisco 765 router in each site which will be linked using ISDN. The network will allow managers to access the central site as well as other pubs and locations in the Bass Tavern group.

"We already have a long standing relationship with Bass Taverns, but won the PC business against the likes of Compaq," said Phil Heath, Unisys relationship executive for Bass.

The PCs will be used for Microsoft Office and email, but have also been loaded with Bass Taverns' specific business applications.

The company will go live with the second phase of a data-mining project in January which will be used for applications including a predictive network.

The system is part of a centrally-based corporate data warehousing project which the company began implementing in July 1995.