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March 01, 2007

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CSC SIGNS $275 MILLION DEAL WITH UKVISAS...Computer Sciences Corporation has signed a business process outsourcing contract with UKvisas, a joint UK Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office directorate which operates as the overseas arm of the United Kingdom's integrated border management. CSC estimates the value of the agreement, which has a five-year base period and two one-year options, to be approximately $275 million (140 million pounds sterling) if all options are exercised.

ADP TO ACQUIRE INTUIT'S FULLY OUTSOURCED PAYROLL BUSINESS...ADP Employer Services, a division of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. has have entered into a definitive agreement whereby Intuit will transition its Premier customers and a portion of its Complete Payroll customers to ADP, representing up to 25,000 customers in total. These are business customers who prefer to completely outsource their payroll-related tasks to a third-party provider.

MANPOWER NAMES HEAD OF FRENCH UNIT...Manpower Inc. named Francoise Gri as president of its French operating unit, which accounted for $6 billion, or 34 percent, of its total revenues in 2006. Gri, 49, joins Manpower in March, coming from IBM where she was president and director general of its France and North Africa division. In both 2005 and 2006, she was named to Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business - International.

ACCENTURE MAKES GRANT TO ADMATRIX...Accenture announced a $1.5 million grant from the Accenture Foundations to Aidmatrix to further the non-profit organization’s innovative Global Relief Network. Aidmatrix leverages the power of technology and relationships with more than 35,000 charitable organizations to deliver critical aid – food, clothing, building supplies, medical and educational supplies – to people in need more quickly and efficiently.

DEMAND FOR GLOBAL RPO GROWS...Increased demand from multi-national companies and a greater emphasis on recruiting and staffing will generate the biggest buzz in the recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) industry in 2007 and beyond, according to The RightThing, Inc., an end-to-end RPO provider. The move toward worldwide RPO is expected to build momentum in late 2007 then hit the industry to stay in 2008, according to Terry Terhark, president and founder.

Posted by jbowles at March 1, 2007 05:19 PM