CSC today announced that it has received nine insurance industry recognitions from three separate groups during the 2008 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum. The awards, which were determined by property and casualty (P&C) insurance carriers, include first-place rankings in integrated systems, information technology (IT) services and IT outsourcing. The company also received an early adopter award for its leading administration system for life and annuity products, CyberLife.

"With one of the industry's broadest portfolios of insurance software and consulting services, CSC continues to deliver practical yet inventive solutions that answer immediate mission-critical client needs," said Ray August, president of CSC's P&C Insurance Division. "These industry acknowledgments validate CSC's ongoing commitment to helping insurance companies achieve business results."

Five of the industry awards were determined by the results of the second annual Vanguards in Insurance Practices survey conducted by Insurance Networking News and research firm Celent. The survey, which assesses the opinions of insurance carriers in the United States and Canada, ranked the top insurance technology providers across several categories.

Insurers were asked to name the technology firms that represented the "best of the best" in terms of delivering value. CSC was the only firm to receive two first-place rankings -- one for integrated systems and another for IT services -- as well as a second place in point solutions. In addition, CSC and its client, Accident Fund, shared first-place Best Practice Case Study honors for Accident Fund's use of CSC's POINT IN Agency Link software. CSC also received an honorable mention in this category.

"There is nothing decision-makers appreciate more than insight from their peers," said Craig Weber, senior vice president of Celent, which led the survey analysis. "That's why we base the Vanguards in Insurance Program on data gleaned purely from surveying insurance carriers and brokers."

At the conference, CSC was also selected as an Insurer's Choice 2008 technology firm. CSC ranked first in IT outsourcing for P&C insurers and in the top three in both operations and workflow. Insurer's Choice is an annual survey of the insurance industry co-sponsored by Tech Decisions and Financial Insights, an IDC company. This year's results reflect responses from more than 600 insurance professionals.

ACORD, a nonprofit insurance standards organization, also presented awards recognizing achievements in ACORD data standards implementations. CSC received an Early Adopter award for adding three more ACORD XMLife standards to CyberLife.

About CSC

CSC is a leading IT services company. CSC's mission is to be a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services.

With approximately 90,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC's own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC reported revenue of $16.5 billion for the 12 months ended March 28, 2008. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.csc.com. 

Consulting Magazine has revealed the annual list of the Top 25 Consultants of 2008.

This year's most successful consultants come from 23 companies, have very different backgrounds and current responsibilities in their firms.

 

They are:

• Shumeet Banerji, Booz & Company
• Peter Cheese, Accenture
• Kathryn Hayley, Aon Consulting
  
• Daniel Mahler, A.T. Kearney
• Charles Farkas, Bain & Company
• Antonella Mei-Pochtler, The Boston Consulting Group
• Jacquie Walker, Buck Consultants
• John Sarnese, CSC
• Jocelyn Conningham, Deloitte Consulting
• Michael Fucci, Deloitte Consulting
• Raju Lal, Ernst & Young
• Richard Schroth, Executive Insights
• Stephen Brant, Hitachi Consulting
• David Shade, Huron Consulting Group
• Peter Korsten, IBM
• Raj Joshi, Infosys Consulting
• Hugo Van Nispen, KEMA
• Cari Bunch, Kurt Salmon Associates
• Mark Goodburn, KPMG
• John Merkovsky, March Risk Consulting
• Adrian Slywotsky, Oliver Wyman
• Michael Dunn, Prophet
• Miles Everson, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
• Karen Vander Linde, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
• Alan Wexler, Sapient

 

 

The consultants' brief profiles can be found on the Consulting Magazine website.

CSC has announced its plans to work with Dell Inc. to design and deploy strategic solutions that enable clients to drive excess cost and complexity out of their information technology (IT) environment and deliver more computing capacity.

The solutions will be designed to help clients simplify processes associated with IT and enhance innovation while leveraging technology to more effectively meet business needs. Dell and CSC have worked together for more than six years, providing desktop and data center solutions to many of the world's leading public and private institutions.

The companies have jointly developed and delivered integrated data center solutions for financial and healthcare institutions; high-performance computing environments for government agencies and Fortune 50 companies; and managed infrastructure services for several Fortune 500 companies.

CSC and Dell bring complementary capabilities to the solution offering. Dell delivers customized technology and services that speed deployment and simplify infrastructure management, such as factory integration of company applications and images, and asset tracking, management, and asset recovery. Dell also provides a full range of support services for end-users. CSC brings global IT services consulting and support, as well as expertise with a range of large vertical markets such as manufacturing; healthcare; chemical, energy and natural resources; and the public sector.

Based on these complementary capabilities, Dell has been named to CSC's recently formed Premier Partnership Program.

"By combining Dell's 'Simplify IT' initiative with CSC's expertise, we will deliver superior value for our enterprise clients," said Paul Rector, vice president of Dell Global Alliances. "Our proven methodologies will help organizations reclaim time, money and personnel needed to drive true innovation into their daily business processes."

"This effort expands a great relationship and will provide our joint and future customers with enterprise innovation essential for differentiation, market recognition and new revenue growth," said David Booth, CSC president of Global Sales and Marketing. "Further leveraging our strengths and enhancing vertical-industry service delivery aligns with CSC's Project Accelerate strategic growth initiative and is a natural progression toward higher levels of client satisfaction."

About CSC

CSC is a leading IT services company. CSC's mission is to be a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. With approximately 90,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC's own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting.

Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC reported revenue of $16.5 billion for the 12 months ended March 28, 2008. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.csc.com.

Information technology consulting company Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has won a contract for information technology and information management services from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). CSC has been awarded a Software Engineering and Specialized Scientific Support blanket purchase agreement to provide information technology to the EPA’s Office of Research and Development.

Thomas P. Anderson, president of CSC's North American Public Sector Civil Division, said:

"This award demonstrates the confidence the EPA has in CSC to provide information technology, science and engineering support to environmental programs. Our government and commercial experience in providing flexible, innovative and cost-effective solutions will support the ORD's mission to perform research and development activities that identify and solve current and future environmental problems."

The work CSC has been hired to do for a year (with six additional one-year options) includes systems design, development and integration. The IT and information management contract is worth up to $110 million.

The information technology services provider has also signed an IT services contract with Eaton Corp. to provide the company's offices worldwide with the CSC Enterprise Service Desk solutions.

Eaton vice-president and chief information officer William W. Blausey Jr. said:

"We are excited about utilizing CSC to support the role of our Information Technology team as a strategic partner in Eaton's continuing growth. CSC's leadership in responding to and resolving incidents, reducing call volumes and providing global service desk support for our expanding worldwide locations were key contributors to CSC winning our business."

The consultancy has also announced that it is one of companies chosen by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to compete to provide federal government agencies with contact centre management solutions. The value of the contract for all the nine companies that were selected to provide services to the federal agencies is $2.5 billion. CSC's estimated share could potentially rise to $100 million.