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December 05, 2007

International News

Computer Sciences Corporation announced that its operations in Denmark have signed a five-year, $76 million (390 million Danish Kroner) information technology (IT) outsourcing agreement with Det Berlingske Officin, a major newspaper publisher in Denmark. Berlingske, which produces 14 daily newspapers and nearly 50 regional papers, is a part of the Mecom Group, a leading European regional publisher with operations in Denmark, Norway, Holland, Germany and Poland. Under the contract, CSC will provide help desk services, server management, project development and management, and applications development, maintenance and support. As a part of the outsourcing arrangement, approximately 70 employees will transition from Berlingske’s IT group to CSC.

Argentina's third largest private financial institution Banco Patagonia has signed an IT services agreement valued at $5.7-million with IBM. Under the agreement signed last month, IBM will manage consolidation, virtualization, technology updates, implementation of a backup datacenter, and all administration and support services for the bank's servers. The new contract also will provide external storage for the bank's main datacenter, backup datacenter and for all critical services provided by IBM. This agreement is an expansion of a 10-year, $15-million technology outsourcing agreement Banco Patagonia signed with IBM in 2005.

Care Management International, Inc. announced an alliance with WNS (Holdings) Limited, a leading provider of offshore business process outsourcing (BPO) services. Care Management International and WNS jointly will offer a comprehensive suite of smart sourcing medical management and care management solutions, such as transaction-based care services, health risk assessments, data analysis and member outreach programs.


Posted by jbowles at December 5, 2007 08:35 PM