CSC signs new three-year contract with Ford of Europe.EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 1994--Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CSC) Monday announced a three-year contract with Ford of Europe to develop a system that gives Ford dealers up-to-the-minute data on car buyers and the automobiles they purchase. The contract, which includes two additional one-year extensions, marks CSC's entry into a new division of Ford of Europe: sales and marketing. Currently, CSC is supporting the company's Customer Service Division (formerly Ford Parts and Services Operations), which last January outsourced its information technology functions to CSC. Under the new contract, CSC will develop and support a new Dealer Computer Applications System slated to serve 7,000 dealers spanning 15 European countries. Work will be performed by a team of 60 CSC specialists who will continually enhance the system and also provide help-desk support. The system will give dealers instant access to information spanning sales, financing and servicing of a car, linking into an inventory of parts for needed repairs. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Nick Bartolini, vice president of Ford Customer Service Division, "This contract reconfirms our satisfaction with CSC's ability to add considerable value to the wider Ford organization." Computer Sciences has $2.9 billion in annual revenues, about 55% of which comes from commercial clients and the rest from the U.S. government. The company has headquarters in El Segundo, and has 30,000 employees in 450 offices, primarily in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe and Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. countries. CSC provides clients with a wide range of professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. including management consulting; business reengineering; and information systems consulting, integration, and outsourcing. CONTACT: Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo Bruce Plowman or Mary Rhodes, 310/615-0311 |
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