COGNICASE Announces Strategic Partnership With Hewlett-Packard and Outsourcing Contract From Atlantic Blue Cross Care.MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 1999-- (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :COGI COGI Coalition on Government Information (also known as the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information, or MNCOGI; promotes open access to public records) ) (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :COG.) (ME:COG.) COGNICASE Inc (NASDAQ: COGI) today announced a strategic partnership with Hewlett-Packard Company, a global technology leader, allowing COGNICASE to leverage its world-class expertise in technological migration projects. Under the agreement, COGNICASE will assist Hewlett-Packard customers in their migration from mainframe to HP platforms in a UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). environment. "This strategic partnership is a strong endorsement of our world-class expertise in platform migration, the original core competency A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
"Our decision to partner with COGNICASE is based on their customer focus and strong track record of applications migrations to UNIX systems, including several projects successfully implemented for HP customers in Canada," said Mike Janssen, US Workforce Partner Manager for Hewlett-Packard consulting. COGNICASE also announced that it has entered into an agreement-in-principle with Atlantic Blue Cross Care to provide support and evolution maintenance for application software. Up to ten IT professionals in COGNICASE's Montreal development center will be assigned to serve the healthcare benefit provider, based in Moncton, New Brunswick New Brunswick, province, Canada New Brunswick, province (2001 pop. 729,498), 28,345 sq mi (73,433 sq km), including 519 sq mi (1,345 sq km) of water surface, E Canada. and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Dartmouth (2001 pop.: 65,741[0]), founded in 1750, is a community and planning area of the Halifax Regional Municipality, a provincially designated Metropolitan Area, and a former city in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. . The outsourcing agreement to be entered into follows a major platform migration and Year 2000 compliance project concluded earlier this year by COGNICASE for the same customer. This mission-critical project, involving the migration of application systems to a UNIX open environment, was successfully carried out over a one-year period in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard using the capabilities of the COGNICASE development center in Montreal. Said Lorne Blanche, Vice-President Informations Systems of Atlantic Blue Cross Care: "The awarding of this contract flows directly from our satisfaction with the platform migration completed previously by COGNICASE. They have a comprehensive understanding of our systems and we are delighted to count on their continued support." About Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of electronic services. HP has 123,500 employees worldwide and had total revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. About Atlantic Blue Cross Care Atlantic Blue Cross Care is a leading healthcare benefits provider in the Atlantic region. The company offers individual and group products, including health, travel, life and disability benefits, to more than half-a-million people. In addition, Atlantic Blue Cross Care administers various federal and provincial government administered programs. Atlantic Blue Cross Care's reputation as an innovator, focused on the delivery of quality healthcare coverage and superior customer service is augmented by its use of state-of-the-art technology. Atlantic Blue Cross Care operates in two major locations in Moncton, New Brunswick and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, as well as seven branch offices located throughout the four Atlantic provinces Atlantic Provinces, term used since 1949 to designate the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. . About COGNICASE COGNICASE, one of the largest Canadian information technology (IT) companies, is an international provider of value-added business solutions and specialized software. The Corporation has more than 2,700 professionals serving customers from business offices in 20 cities in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Australia. COGNICASE offers a full range of global IT solutions, including complete and partial outsourcing, Web/E-commerce development, platform migration, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. implementation, client/server application development, network architecture and management, and software for automated Internet application development and conversion. |
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