Inside CSC World, Summer 2010 Edition

With Asia now owning some of the world’s largest economies, multinational firms are hoping to capitalize on its diversity and growth potential. One area of growth is the insurance sector, where consumers increasingly prefer to do business online, forcing insurers to modernize their business processes.

CSC has been supporting insurance providers in Asia for more than 25 years. Today, we’re working with both large, established companies as well as newer firms trying to gain market share. In our cover story, we look at Asia’s developing insurance market and then spotlight two, diverse clients.

MetLife, the No. 1 life insurer in the U.S., is fighting its way out of the middle of the pack in India using our LIFE/Asia software. In Japan, Lifenet Insurance Vice President Daisuke Iwase explains how recent deregulations in the Japanese insurance market led to the creation of that country’s first independent life insurance company in 74 years.

Mobile phones vastly outnumber personal computers in Asia, and mobile devices are experiencing rapid enterprise adoption worldwide. Our focus on mobility in this issue begins with csc.com Site Architect Chris Marin, who has been actively taking our corporate site into the mobile domain, creating mobile apps for various devices. “Defining Your Mobile Strategy: A Guide to Developing Mobile Apps” provides insights and recommendations for those just starting down the mobile path. An article from our Mobility Practice discusses the Apple iPad’s potential usefulness in the enterprise and a case study explains how a BlackBerry Mobile App will help transform the hotel experience for Starwood Hotels’ guests.

We do amazing things at CSC, and this year our Chairman’s Award for Excellence once again celebrates the very best. We profile each of the 2010 winning projects, which are improving the timeliness of trains, repairing space telescopes, creating eco-friendly business models, transforming retail, helping offices go paperless and moving data centers into the cloud.

This issue’s Green Corner focuses on our feature-rich product lifecycle management solutions for engineering and manufacturing clients. With our global alliance partners IBM, Dassault Systèmes and Siemens, we are providing cutting-edge and power-cutting data centers.

Two examples of another key alliance relationship are presented in this issue’s In Practice section. We profile transformative projects completed for telecoms company iBasis and printing giant Agfa Graphics using SAP.

Lastly, the Summer 2010 issue of CSC World is proudly our first 100-percent digital issue of the publication. For your convenience, we invite you to download this issue to your Amazon Kindle or Apple iPad or sign up to receive every issue automatically via email at www.csc.com/subscribe.

As always, you can find us at www.csc.com/cscworld.

Theresa Nozick, Editor CSC World