Control Data Announces New Email Hosting Business Unit.ARDEN HILLS, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1999-- For "Mission Critical" E-Commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. Outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. Needs Control Data Systems, Inc., today announced the formation of a separate business unit that is completely dedicated to addressing the rapidly growing enterprise/Internet messaging and electronic commerce application outsourcing needs of industry. Over the last several years, Control Data has developed a comprehensive set of enterprise/Internet messaging outsourcing services ranging from email audits and Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the message hosting to global messaging infrastructure management and electronic commerce delivery services. By managing more than 400,000 corporate mailboxes and delivering more than 20 million messages a month, Control Data has established itself as the market leader in the outsourcing of mission-critical email services See Internet e-mail service. for major global clients and community of interest groups. The company is rapidly leveraging these service offerings into Internet hosting and electronic commerce application delivery service offerings. Some of the world's most prominent global companies are reducing IT administrative and network costs, adding value-added electronic commerce services and eliminating security risk and system blackouts by using Control Data's messaging/ Internet outsourcing services. Clients include leaders in their industries, such as Sprint, Deloitte & Touche, Fort James, J&H Marsh & McLennan, and Ernst & Young. "We are seeing tremendous value from the range of messaging outsourcing services that Control Data is providing for our member firms around the world," said Malcolm Collingwood, Director of Global Solutions and Applications at Ernst & Young, a leading global tax, accounting and consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a . Control Data, along with its owner, the leading IT investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson Anderson, river, Canada Anderson, river, c.465 mi (750 km) long, rising in several lakes in N central Northwest Territories, Canada. It meanders north and west before receiving the Carnwath River and flowing north to Liverpool Bay, an arm of the Arctic & Stowe, plan to expand this outsourcing business dramatically in scale, service offerings, brand identity and global reach. The company's outsourcing capabilities are already unique to the messaging/Internet industry because of the company's extensive experience integrating legacy infrastructures and its proven ability to design, implement and deliver secure, scalable and cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. messaging/Internet solutions. "Corporate email and Web systems have become mission critical to industries, employees, customers and partners. But in many cases these systems operate in a much less than mission-critical mode, just waiting for a disaster to happen, and it often does," said James Ousley, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Control Data. "Compounding the problem is the fact that most organizations typically underestimate the cost and complexity of delivering quality, reliable email and electronic commerce services by a factor of 2 to 10 times, when all costs are considered. That's why many of the world's leading companies have turned to outsourcing, and specifically to Control Data, for help." 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. an estimate by the Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. , between 10 and 15 percent of all U.S. businesses now outsource part of their e-mail system. That percentage could grow to 65 percent by 2001, Gartner predicts. Control Data Systems, Inc., is a global IT consulting and services company that delivers enterprise-strength Internet/EC consulting, systems integration and outsourcing solutions. For more information, call 1-888-742-5864 (U.S. and Canada) or 1-651-415-2999 (worldwide). Visit our Web site at http://www.cdc.com. |
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