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Presidential Quality Award Honors CSC Company
DynMcDermott, a CSC-managed federal contractor, weathered two hurricanes this year to win the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest presidential honor for quality and organizational performance excellence.
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CSC Exec Sees Accelerating Need for Integrated Healthcare IT Systems
CSC Executive Daniel Garrett Sees Accelerating Need for Integrated Healthcare IT Systems
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2005 A&D Survey: IT Being Overlooked as Strategic Function
The 2005 Aerospace and Defense (A&D) Industry Survey identifies trends in the areas of labor, strategic compliance, IT value and compliance.
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CSC’s IRS and NASA Projects Win GCN Industry Awards
CSC was honored with a GCN Industry Leader award, which is granted to companies with the largest revenue from government contracts. As the IRS's prime contractor for their $5 billion modernization contract, CSC was proud to see two IRS modernization projects—e-services and Modernized e-File (MeF)—recognized with awards.
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Leading Edge Forum Report 2005, Extreme Data: Meaning
An era of extreme data is on the rise, driven by an explosion of new types of data generated by new devices and used in completely new ways, says the 2005 Leading Edge Forum Report, Extreme Data: Rethinking the "I" in IT.
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CSC Gives Insurance Company New Home After Katrina
After Hurricane Katrina forced Pan-American Life Insurance to abandon its home office in New Orleans, CSC gave the company's data-and its employees-a new home.
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CSC Employees Caught in Katrina's Path Rebuild
CSC and its employees hit by Hurricane Katrina are already rebuilding. Even though many CSC people are victims of storm damage, they also continue to assist CSC customers with recovery operations at their facilities.
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From Beach Front to Just Beach
Hundreds of CSC employees were caught in the path of Hurricane Katrina, whether that meant swimming to safety or evacuating only to find their homes destroyed. Many CSC employees are still picking up the pieces.
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Hurricane Doesn't Get in the Way of Job
Terri Baker, acquisitions manager and small business liaison officer for CSC's Mississippi Space Services in Stennis, Miss., refused to give Hurricane Katrina even the slightest upper hand when she had a job to perform.
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Survey: Companies Break Through Supply Chain Barrier
Companies are breaking into the advanced stages of supply chain management at last and are starting to reap the benefits, CSC and Supply Chain Management Review report in their Third Annual Global Survey of Supply Chain Progress.
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Project BraveHeart Answers Call for Hurricane Relief—Again
When CSC's Bill Pedersen founded Project BraveHeart to provide financial assistance for employees affected by 2004's Hurricane Ivan, he pledged that it would be there when the next natural disaster strikes. The call to fulfill that pledge came less than a year later, when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the same U.S. gulf coast devastated by Ivan.
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CSC Unit Braves Disaster to Deliver Emergency Oil Reserves
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush authorized the drawdown and sale of oil from the government's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Despite being in the path of the destruction, the SPR, operated and managed by a CSC unit, has delivered emergency oil supplies without disruption.
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A CSC White Paper: Howard Smith on BPM
The prediction that the CIO's job will evolve into managing business processes—not just technology—is not new. What is new is the state of process technology. It has reached a point where it's about to go mainstream. Learn how, when and why in the insightful white paper, "From CIO to CPO via BPM: The Next Generation of Enterprise Automation," written by Howard Smith, CSC's European CTO.
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CSC Teaches Educators How to Keep Students Safe, Schools Secure
CSC's Safe Schools program helps schools develop and maintain comprehensive safe school plans to prepare for and prevent violence and disasters on school grounds.
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Leading Edge Forum Report 2005, Extreme Data: Social Connections
An era of extreme data is on the rise, driven by an explosion of new types of data generated by new devices and used in completely new ways, says the 2005 Leading Edge Forum Report, Extreme Data: Rethinking the "I" in IT.
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Supply Chain Evolution
CSC Book Excerpt: The Networked Supply Chain
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CSC Helps Sun Microsystems Transform Applications Business
Sun Microsystems is currently undergoing a major transformation that is changing the way it does business. To remain competitive globally, Sun is handing much of the responsibility for its application development and support to CSC. Sun will also build on CSC's contract base and industry experience to go to market more effectively.
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CSC Clients, Employees Weather Hurricane Katrina
Hundreds of CSC employees and their clients were in the path of Hurricane Katrina as it swept through the southern U.S. Gulf Coast, destroying lives, livelihoods and homes. All CSC employees survived the storm. They emerged to repair their country, communities and workplaces through dedication and volunteer efforts.
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Leading Edge Forum Report 2005, Extreme Data: Time and Place
An era of extreme data is on the rise, driven by an explosion of new types of data generated by new devices and used in completely new ways, says the 2005 Leading Edge Forum Report, Extreme Data: Rethinking the "I" in IT.
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Innovative CSC Network Brings Data Together
CSC's Fully Converged Network, one of six recipients of the 2005 Award for Technical Excellence, can help enterprises reduce costs in the areas of networking and business telephony.
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New CSC Offering Delivers Network Convergence
CSC Converged Networks enables unprecedented levels of management information and control to enable businesses to manage their cost and service profiles appropriate to their business requirements. Within the Converged Networks framework, CSC provides five services: Network Business Services, WAN, LAN, Converged Voice and remote CSC Connect.
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Interview With Ingvar Soderlund, Chief Information Officer of the SAS Group
Interview with Ingvar Soderlund, chief information officer of the SAS Group.
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Leading Edge Forum Report 2005, Extreme Data: Rethinking the "I" in IT
An era of extreme data is on the rise, driven by an explosion of new types of data generated by new devices and used in completely new ways, says the 2005 Leading Edge Forum Report, Extreme Data: Rethinking the "I" in IT.
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Industry Perspective: Professor Vijay Gurbaxani on Offshore Outsourcing and Value Measurement
In a two-part interview, University of California at Irvine Professor Vijay Gurbaxani discusses his views on various information topics such as offshore outsourcing, return on technology investments, utility computing, and the evolution of the IT services industry.
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Video: CSC Security Expert Explores Google Hacking Threat
In a video interview, CSC security researcher Johnny Long describes how hackers can find personal data and passwords through the Google search engine, then use that data against individuals and organizations.
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CSC Supports NASA's Successful Return to Flight
Among the many NASA programs CSC supports is the Columbia supercomputer, which is housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.
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Renault: Focusing Global IT on Automotive Expertise
In an interview with CSC, Renault CIO Jean-Pierre Corniou details Renault's original approach to IT.
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Industry Perspective: Vijay Gurbaxani on Achieving Flexibility in Today's IT Climate
In a two-part interview, University of California at Irvine Professor Vijay Gurbaxani discusses his views on various information topics such as offshore outsourcing, return on technology investments, utility computing, and the evolution of the IT services industry.
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CSC's Grid Computing Solution Provides Flexibility, Cost Savings
CSC's Results-Driven Computing (RDC) Grid service lets organizations perform supercomputing-level tasks without making large up-front capital investments in equipment or data center infrastructure, or usage commitments.
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CSC Dimensions: New Offering Blends Applications Experience, Industry Knowledge
CSC's newest integrated service offering, CSC Dimensions, provides a powerful framework that can help organizations leverage CSC's industry knowledge to enable sustainable business transformation and application excellence.">
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Small Island Plays Big Role in CSC's Space Work
Ascension Island has held a strategic importance for more than two centuries and serves today as an important base for CSC operations.
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CSC Security Expert Explores Google Hacking Threat in New Book
As a security researcher for CSC, Johnny Long spends his days breaking into clients' networks to find and repair vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can wreak havoc. In this line of work, he constantly comes across new and evolving threats, and in his book, Google Hacking for Penetration Testers, Long brings to light a potentially destructive hacking method that targets everyday Internet users.
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Survey: CFOs Want Relevant and More Timely Analytical Information
The seventh annual survey, Technology Issues for Financial Executives, by CSC and the Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF), the research arm of Financial Executives International (FEI) identifies the IT issues and trends deemed most critical for CFOs and other senior finance executives.
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Digitization Project Transforms TV Channel's Business of News Broadcasting
France 2, France's largest state-owned television channel, partnered with CSC to digitize the process of creating its four daily television news programs. CSC assisted the general management at the channel in creating a framework for and managing the entire project.
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Empowered Mortgage Counselors Keep Borrowers in Their Homes
With CSC's expanded version of EarlyResolution, National City Mortgage is keeping borrowers in their homes.
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CSC's Hogan Systems Takes Banking Into the Future
CSC is better known for its information technology services than for its software. But for more than 50 U.S. banks using CSC's Hogan Systems® products, CSC provides the software that is helping shape the future of retail banking.
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CSC Exec: Experience, Trust, Openness Key to Outsourcing Relationships
The increasing importance of choosing an outsourcing partner with a strong background in information technology (IT) security and compliance monitoring was a key message delivered by Russ Owen, president of CSC's Global Infrastructure Services.
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New Office Strengthens CSC's Focus on Results-Driven Innovation
Uniting several of CSC's hallmark technology leadership programs and groups, the Office of Innovation brings a sharper focus to CSC’s innovative agenda and solution delivery for clients.
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CSC Voices: One Man's Standards Make a Difference for CSC
An information technology services deal often comes down to the skills and knowledge of one person. Fortunately for CSC's federal sector, it has Paul Croll, a leading member of the IT industry's most important standards bodies.
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Improving the Performance of Your Program Management Office
While 70 percent of leading enterprises have program management offices in an effort to improve project success rates, the benefits of an effective PMO tend to remain elusive.
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Business Process Outsourcing: The Vendor's Perspective
Vendors, intermediaries, and customers are wrongly assuming that business process outsourcing is little different from IT outsourcing. As they pursue short-term goals through BPO and shared services, they are ignoring crucial long-term strategy issues.
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Datamonitor Names CSC Leader in Insurance Technology
CSC is a leader in global insurance technology due to its domain expertise, process coverage and business issue awareness, say two recent reports from industry analyst firm Datamonitor.
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Prism Alliance Delivers "Red-Hot IT" to Royal Mail
The Royal Mail board has set an ambitious strategic vision for the company: to be the best postal operator in the world. Royal Mail has signed a landmark outsourcing deal with the CSC-led Prism Alliance. The contract, valued at £1.5 billion, is one of the largest ever signed in the UK. "It is," said Royal Mail CEO Adam Crozier, "a vital component in our renewal plan.
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Tech Summit Explores Innovative Solutions to Fight Narcoterrorism
CSC and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Museum Foundation co-hosted a blue-ribbon panel discussion that examined how technology can help break the link between drug trafficking and terrorism.
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CSC Study: Consumer Technology Will Drive Corporate IT Agenda
The blurring of lines between corporate IT and consumer technology will allow employees to drive IT innovation in the future, and this "consumerization" will lower costs and improve functionality, says a study by CSC's Research & Advisory Services.
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Financial Executive Survey: Most Businesses Lack IT Plan
Businesses that align their IT strategies with their business strategies are more likely to achieve a high return on IT investment, according to a survey of senior financial officers.
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Vertical Forté Gives CSC an Edge as a BTO
Analyst firm Summit Strategies credits vertical depth and alignment for CSC’s strength as a business transformation outsourcer (BTO) in CSC’s Twenty-Year Journey: Emergence of a Vertical Business Transformation Outsourcer.
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