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CSC announced today that New Mexico Technology Group (NewTec) has been awarded a contract to provide mission support services to the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) and the 46th Test Group High Speed Test Track at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. NewTec is a joint venture owned by CSC, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and TRAX International. CSC estimates the value of the contract, which has a two-year base period and four two-year options, to be $422 million if all options are exercised.

CSC holds 47 percent of the voting shares of NewTec, and will therefore recognize that portion of the joint venture’s profits, but will not consolidate the joint venture’s revenues.

This contract follows and is separate from a contract signed in 1997 to provide mission support services at the WSMR.

Under the terms of the agreement, NewTec will provide operation and maintenance of major test facilities, development of instrumentation, support for field and laboratory testing and other developmental engineering services to support the facilities, systems and equipment at WSMR.

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Intelligroup launched today its Testing Practice with a focus on ERP testing. The firm has also recently signed a partnership agreement with Compuware which includes becoming a Reseller of Compuware Testing products.

Intelligroup Testing services build upon the ERP best practices and tools that Intelligroup has perfected in the SAP and Oracle arena. The focus is on more effective requirements and impact analysis; preventing defects from moving through the development life cycle; and a metrics program that is useful to both the project manager and senior management. Intelligroup already provides Testing services in ERP, as well as, web and other applications.

Intelligroup currently provides both manual and automated Testing services for clients in Life Sciences, Consumer Products, and High Tech industry verticals. Capabilities include Functional, Regression, Stress, and User Acceptance testing for both ERP and web applications built on Java and .Net.

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Tata Consultancy Services and its Chinese partners, supported by the National Development and Reforms Commission (NDRC) announced that Microsoft Corporation had signed a tripartite investment agreement to be a strategic investor in TCS China, with the TCS and the and Chinese Parties, which are national software export bases located in Beijing and Tianjin and nominees of the NDRC. Microsoft will hold a minority stake in TCS China.

The agreement was signed at an Indo-Chinese business forum which had been addressed by President Hu Jintao earlier.The entry of Microsoft follows the granting of the business operating license to TCS China. It also signals the culmination of the process to get the joint venture operational after an MoU was signed between the three parties (TCS, Chinese parties and Microsoft) in June 2005.

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Informationweek on TCS’ deal with Lilly:

TCS’s deal with Lilly is the latest indication that India’s top outsourcers are poised to move well beyond the basic tech and business services for which they are mostly known. Other countries are also stepping up to attract high-level life sciences work. Last week, drug giant Novartis disclosed plans to build a $100 million research and development facility in China.

TCS to establish Medical Information Sciences Center in India to support the relationship with Lilly

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced today that it has established a relationship with Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) to advance Lilly’s clinical research and development. Lilly is a leading, innovation-driven U.S. corporation committed to developing a growing portfolio of best-in-class and first-in-class pharmaceutical products.

For this multi-year engagement, Tata Consultancy Services has established a new facility, the ‘Lilly-TCS Medical Information Sciences Center’, at its Noida site near New Delhi, to house the staff working on Lilly projects. Through this new center, TCS will work with Lilly’s Medical Information Sciences disciplines to provide a wide range of services in clinical data management, statistical analysis and medical writing.

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The Vontobel Group will in future offer transaction bank services to other banks in Switzerland and in Liechtenstein. These sourcing services under the name VONSYS Vontobel Solutions for Your Sourcing will include securities execution, settlement and administration. Vontobel is thus addressing a growing need of many banks to outsource a significant part of their securities processes so as to benefit from advantages in terms of quality and costs. Vontobel is already successfully providing these services for Raiffeisen Switzerland. To further expand its range of sourcing services, the Vontobel Group is entering into a strategic IT partnership with T-Systems Schweiz AG, under which Vontobel will continue to cover the actual banking processes (execution and custody) while T-Systems will be responsible for project implementation, the running of the IT infrastructure and application management. As specialists, the two partners bring their own respective core competencies to the range of insourcing services, to the benefit of their clients.

Increasing complexity due to ever shorter innovation cycles, changes in the regulatory environment, growing product diversity, a lack of opportunities for differentiation and the increasing focus on core competencies are prompting banks to fundamentally rethink their vertical integration depth. In this regard, those parts of the value chain with clear economies of scale in securities execution, settlement and administration in particular offer significant advantages for possible outsourcing.

Vontobel already has well-founded experience in providing transaction bank services. Back in autumn 2005, Raiffeisen Switzerland outsourced execution and global custody to Vontobel. At the beginning of October 2006, Vontobel also took over client custody for Raiffeisen Switzerland. In terms of the level of operations that are outsourced, the combined execution, global custody and client custody services from a single source cover the most important, most complex and most resource-intensive areas of securities settlement and securities administration. At present, there is no other cooperation agreement of this depth and scale in the securities business in the Swiss banking  market − particularly in terms of the number of client portfolios, transactions and securities positions involved.

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LogicaCMG has renewed and broadened the contract with SAP AG to provide managed Human Resources (HR) and Payroll services to its customers based on SAP’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. LogicaCMG’s SAP based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services for HR and Payroll will be charged to customers on a transaction based monthly fee covering both the initial start-up cost and the on-going operational cost for the services delivered.

The contract will extend LogicaCMG’s offerings to include the full Human Capital Management (HCM) suite of SAP products, including employee self-service, employee portals, workflows and the international SAP payroll engine. This broadened transactional services model will give LogicaCMG and its customers greater flexibility regarding the set-up of BPO contracts and offer customers greater control and understanding of the breakdown of costs which in turn will help their entire budgeting and cost control processes.

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Keane, Inc. (USA),a business process and information technology (IT) services firm, today announced that it has enhanced its enterprise application offerings by forging an alliance with Intelligroup (India), a provider of consulting, business process optimization, and outsourcing services.

Keane is strengthening its Enterprise Application Services (EAS) to help clients gain maximum value from their enterprise application investments. Industry analyst firm Gartner forecasts 15.9% growth of this market between 2005 and 2008, with the market reaching $36.3 billion in 2008. Keane’s alliance with Intelligroup will broaden Keane’s services portfolio with expanded capabilities for enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), business intelligence, financials, and human resource management (HRM) implementations and support.

The Keane/Intelligroup alliance provides clients with a best-of-breed approach, synthesizing the strengths of the two companies. Clients will benefit from Keane’s proven expertise in business process and application outsourcing, project management, and legacy platform integration combined with Intelligroup’s Enterprise Application Services (EAS) experience and deep industry domain knowledge. Additionally, clients will have access to a global pool of talent, which can be leveraged both onshore and offshore.

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