CSC signs outsourcing pact with San Diego Gas & Electric.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. 7, 1994--Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CSC) has entered into a 10-year outsourcing agreement with San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Gas & Electric (SDG&E), a leading West Coast utility. 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. William R. Hoover, CSC chairman and chief executive officer, SDG&E -- with $1.8 billion in revenues and more than 1 million customers -- is one of the largest utilities 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. to outsource a major part of its information technology operations Information technology operations, or IT operations, are the superset of all processes and services that are both provisioned by an IT staff to their internal or external and used by themselves, to run themselves as a business. . In addition, the company is one of the most progressive in the nation in setting strict performance measures to control costs. "SDG&E is an industry leader in its use of performance measures and efficiencies to better serve its customers," said Hoover. "We're pleased to be their technology partner, allowing them to focus on their core business and find new ways to compete in today's fast-changing free marketplace." CSC's agreement with SDG&E calls for it to provide mainframe processing and operations support. Other utilities supported by CSC include United Illuminating Co., a New Haven, Conn.-based utility that signed a 10-year outsourcing pact with the company in 1993. CSC's contract with SDG&E marks the third major outsourcing agreement announced by the company in the past month. Other clients include Mutual of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , which is negotiating a seven-year contract; and Scott Paper, which signed a one-year contract with two additional one-year options and provisions for the negotiation of a full 10-year agreement. 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, Europe and Pacific Rim countries. CSC provides clients with a wide range of professional services 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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