CSC, SDT announce IT alliance in support of hospitality industry.NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 1996--Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CSC) and SDT SDT Soldat SDT Sigma Delta Tau (sorority) SDT Signal Detection Theory (cognitive science) SDT Service Description Table (Digital Video Broadcast data) (SABRE Decision Technologies) have announced The Alliance, a new initiative to bring more focused and concentrated information technology (IT) solutions to the hospitality industry. The announcement was made today during the 24th annual Hospitality Industry Technology Exhibition and Conference at the Opryland Hotel Convention Center in Nashville. Through The Alliance, CSC and SDT will deliver a broad range of services, including management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects , systems integration, packaged software See software package. solutions, outsourcing and call-center operations. The Alliance will develop and market its outsourcing services from a newly created Center of Excellence, which will serve as the focal point focal point n. See focus. for The Alliance's worldwide development, marketing and industry best practices research activities. "The formation of The Alliance comes when the hospitality industry is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. newer and more innovative methods, including the better application of IT solutions, to reduce costs and increase profitability," said Thomas R. Madison Jr., president, CSC Integrated Business Services, Falls Church, Va. "Together, we will be able to concentrate on bringing the right IT solutions targeted directly to the needs and concerns of the hospitality industry." "The Alliance is introducing a complete portfolio of best-of-breed hospitality solutions," said Thomas M. Cook, president of SDT, Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, Texas. "In so doing, we will be able to leverage our complementary capabilities to become the leading provider of business and IT solutions to the hospitality industry." CSC will provide management and strategic consulting, IT infrastructure and implementation, network management and help-desk support to The Alliance. SDT will add application development, integration, legacy systems maintenance and its existing suite of hospitality industry solutions. SDT, a unit of AMR (1) (Adaptive Multi-Rate) A variable rate speech codec selected by the 3GPP for the 3G evolution of the GSM cellphone system (WCDMA). Using the Algebraic CELP (ACELP) compression technology, AMR provides toll quality sound at transmission rates from 4.75 to 12. Corp.'s The SABRE Group, is the world's leading provider of business solutions for the travel and transportation industry. From eight worldwide offices, SDT serves 250 clients in more than 50 countries. CSC had $4.2 billion in revenues for the 12 months ended March 29, 1996. The company has headquarters in El Segundo, Calif., and has 34,000 employees in 575 offices worldwide providing clients with a wide range of professional services including management consulting, business reengineering, information systems consulting and integration, and outsourcing. CONTACT: Computer Sciences Corp. John F. Gulick, 703/641-2588 or McKone Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most (For SDT) Becky Rudolph, 214/550-7433 |
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