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CSC POSITIONED IN ‘LEADERS’ QUADRANT FOR MANAGED AND PROFESSIONAL NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS, NORTH AMERICA REPORT
News Release -- May 30, 2008
FALLS CHURCH, Va., May 30 -- CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that it is positioned in the “leaders” quadrant of the Gartner report Magic Quadrant for Managed and Professional Network Service Providers, North America. The report evaluates vendors that deliver information technology (IT) services in support of connectivity and communications infrastructure.According to Gartner, “Vendors in the leaders quadrant are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are building competencies to sustain their leadership positions in the market.”
Authored by Eric Goodness, Christine Tenneson, Ted Chamberlin and Daniel O’Connell, and published May 14, 2008, the report covers vendors of IT services for business communications systems in North America. To be included, service providers had to directly provide IT management services in support of wide-area-network environments, develop and maintain their own remote management platform for the provisioning of a variety of remote IT services across WAN, LAN and premises-based voice infrastructure, and have generated annual network IT service revenue of $150 million or more in North America, among other criteria.
“As our clients’ businesses become more global, their network requirements are becoming even more complex,” said Richard Ricks, president of CSC’s Global Outsourcing Services organization. “We view our placement in the leaders quadrant as an indicator of the quality, in-depth integrated network transformation and management services our clients need and have come to expect.”
About the Gartner Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against certain criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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 www.csc.com.
