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March 11, 2008
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COGNIZANT WINS $95 MILLION ASTRAZENECA DEAL...Cognizant announced an agreement with AstraZeneca to support the company’s drive for greater efficiencies in Clinical Data Management. AstraZeneca is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, widely recognized for its life-changing medicines. The contract is for a period of five years with anticipated revenues of approximately $95 million. Cognizant will provide a broad spectrum of centralized data management services for AstraZeneca’s global clinical development programs, including data management planning, clinical study set-up for electronic data capture, medical coding, adverse event reconciliation, clinical data management, and training for the clinical sites and investigators.
EDS TO OFFER MICROSOFT CRM...EDS will offer Microsoft Dynamics CRM as an EDS enterprise application solution to its clients globally. With this announcement, EDS becomes Microsoft’s enterprise partner to deliver Microsoft Dynamics CRM consulting and solutions that will reduce time-to-market, lower total cost of ownership and give clients a competitive edge. EDS’ services, which include consulting, implementation, integration, management hosting, contact center outsourcing and managed services, will allow clients to confidently purchase and deploy Microsoft Dynamics CRM in enterprise scenarios, such as contact centers and sales force automation.
BANCTEC ACQUIRES BPO SERVICES PROVIDER...BancTec has acquired DocuData Solutions, an imaging, content management and media storage business process outsourcing (BPO) services provider with operations centers throughout Texas. The acquisition supports BancTec’s strategy to expand its BPO business worldwide, adding 3 Texas processing centers to its 4 existing U.S. sites and 11 European sites.
MERCER NAMES HEAD OF US OPERATIONS...Jocelyn Purtell has joined Mercer’s outsourcing business as Head of US Operations, effective April 1, 2008. In this role, she will be responsible for running all of Mercer’s US operations, with a primary focus on transforming Mercer’s operational platform and processes in order to optimize service delivery and efficiencies for clients. She will be based in Mercer’s Deerfield, Illinois office. Purtell has more than 22 years of experience in the human resources outsourcing industry. Prior to joining Mercer, she spent her career at Hewitt Associates, which she joined in 1985 and where she rose to Senior Vice President, North America Operations Outsourcing Leader, managing Hewitt’s 10,000+ employee North American Operations group and responsible for servicing more than 400 large-market clients.
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