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April 13, 2006

New Business

Accenture has signed a seven-year contract to provide IT application development, implementation and support for Unilever across Europe. Financial terms of the contracts were not disclosed.

Cognizant Technology Solutions has expanded its strategic customer partnership with Dow Corning Corporation. Cognizant will implement a large-scale mySAP CRM 5.0 system, which will be tightly integrated with SAP's next generation NetWeaver platform.

CitiStreet is providing full defined contribution and defined benefit administration, along with health and welfare services to American Family Insurance, the nation's third-largest mutual property and casualty insurer. The agreement marks an expansion of the companies' long-standing business partnership; CitiStreet has provided defined contribution benefits outsourcing services to American Family Insurance since 1994.

Hewitt Associates will provide HR business process outsourcing (BPO) services to Catholic Health Initiatives, a national nonprofit health corporation. Hewitt has provided defined benefit outsourcing services to Catholic Health Initiatives since 2001 and benefits consulting services since 1989.

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. has been awarded a renewed business process outsourcing (BPO) contract with PepsiAmericas. The three-year contract is valued at just under $5 million. PepsiAmericas is the second largest Pepsi bottler in the world with operations in the United States, Central Europe, and the Caribbean.

Equant has signed an outsourcing contract with Universal Music Group (UMG), the world's leading music company, to transform its current network into a fully managed IP solution. The five-year deal, spanning 48 countries, covers all elements of UMG's communications infrastructure, including global WAN and LAN, managed voice and IP Telephony, mobility, web hosting and vendor management.

Posted by jbowles at April 13, 2006 05:49 PM