Complete Business Solutions, Inc. Awarded Contract For Dunfermline Building Society's Year 2000 Project.FARMINGTON HILLS Far·ming·ton Hills A city of southeast Michigan, an industrial suburb of Detroit. Population: 81,400. , Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 2, 1997-- 1.7-MILLION LINES OF CODE The statements and instructions that a programmer writes when creating a program. One line of this "source code" may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the programming language. A line of code in assembly language is typically turned into one machine instruction. SLATED FOR CONVERSION Complete Business Solutions, Inc. (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 : CBSL CBSL Central Bank of Sri Lanka CBSL Coordinated Baseline Status List ) announced that it has been awarded a Year 2000 services contract from Dunfermline Building Society The Dunfermline Building Society is a building society based in Dunfermline, Scotland. It is the largest building society in Scotland and the 17th largest in the United Kingdom based on total assets of £2,318 million at 31 December 2005. . The project involves the conversion and testing of 1.7 million lines of code jointly with internal staff. Dunfermline is Scotland's largest building society, the U.K. equivalent of a U.S. savings and loan association savings and loan association, type of financial institution that was originally created to accept savings from private investors and to provide home mortgage services for the public. The first U.S. savings and loan association was founded in 1831. . The award follows an impact assessment that was carried out at CBSI's Year 2000 factory in Madras, India. The reason for taking the assessment offshore, 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. Dave Ferris, General Manager of Information Technology, was that "CBSI CBSI CUNA Brokerage Services, Inc. CBSI Cambodian Buddhist Society, Inc. (Silver Springs, Maryland) CBSI Certified Bridge Safety Inspector CBSI Custom Business Solutions, Inc. had all the tools and human resources conveniently there in one place." As part of the project, CBSI project managers in Madras were able to analyze both 1-million lines of COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. code and 700,000 lines of Unisys LINC code. Now CBSI will assist with the actual conversion work onsite at Dunfermline's headquarters in Dunfermline, Scotland. "Our arrangement with Dunfermline is a good example of how flexible CBSI can be with clients willing to work as long term partners," says Shashank Joshi, CBSI business unit director for Europe. "This approach enables Dunfermline to make optimal use of skills of both CBSI and its internal staff, while meeting its business goals in a timely manner." Dunfermline has been a CBSI client for over five years. Dunfermline Building Society is an independent, mutual organization providing finance for house purchase and offering comprehensive investment and insurance services. It was formed in 1869 and has a network of 34 branches throughout Scotland. The assets currently stand at #1.16 billion (U.S. $1.85 billion) and the society is one of the top 20 in the United Kingdom. CBSI has an extensive infrastructure that includes two fully functional 'software factories' dedicated to Year 2000 work and development centers in Michigan, Illinois, and California as well as off-shore facilities in Madras and Bangalore, India. CBSI utilizes proprietary methodologies including The Time Machine 2000 (sm) and COSMO (sm), the CBSI Offsite Success Management Methodology. CBSI is a worldwide provider of a broad range of information technology services offering Year 2000 end-to-end solutions, legacy maintenance, reengineering services from legacy to client/server, large systems and client/server applications development, internet/intranet expertise and packaged software implementation. Founded in 1985, CBSI's outstanding performance record has enabled the company to grow to 1996 revenues of $83 million through its project sites around the world. To learn more about CBSI, visit its website at www.cbsinc.com CONTACT: Editorial Contact: Tom Gibson 216-881-9376 <73503.1370@compuserve.com> or CBSI Company Contact: Kris Liebold 248-848-2284 <kliebold@cbsinc.com> |
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