Corporate Information

Computer Sciences Corporation
2100 East Grand Ave.
El Segundo, CA

www.csc.com

Contact Information

Jeff Budge
jbudge@csc.com
Main: (865) 742-0993

Computer Sciences Corporation helps clients achieve strategic goals and profit from the use of information technology.

With the broadest range of capabilities, CSC offers clients the solutions they need to manage complexity, focus on core businesses, collaborate with partners and clients, and improve operations.

CSC makes a special point of understanding its clients and provides experts with real-world experience to work with them. CSC is vendor independent, delivering solutions that best meet each client’s unique requirements
For more than 48 years, clients in industries and governments worldwide have trusted CSC with their business process and information systems outsourcing, systems integration and consulting needs.

Business-Driven Application Modernization is a programmatic approach that enables organizations to transform existing business system processes, applications and services to improve their business performance. 

At the business level, application modernization focuses on aligning an organization’s IT strategy with their business strategy. 

At the technical level, application modernization focuses on the establishment of new environments such as a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that are grounded on the Oracle Modernization Framework (OMF).   Providing an enterprise class target environment, the OMF delivers the needed support for the modernized applications including the design, development and deployment of reusable business services as well as the management and governance of the resulting architecture and infrastructure. 

Business-Driven Application Modernization provides the offerings, methodology and tools that support the multiple phases that may occur in any modernization project. These project phases include Business Insight and Industry Context, Current State Analysis, Future Architecture Direction, Modernization Approach Choices, use of Reusable Services, Infrastructure Definition, Governance and Management, and Change Management.  Depending on the modernization approach or approaches used during the modernization project, some or all of the life cycle phases will be applied.

CSC and Oracle are working together to make modernization a realistic alternative for all organizations.  Whether your goal is to reduce costs, increase agility in reacting to business requirements, streamline reliance on legacy skill sets, or improve compliance, the CSC/ Oracle business-driven application modernization approach can help you achieve your goals.

Benefits of this Implementation are

1. Technology
• Will retire LASER (Legacy Mainframe Subsystem) and 8 other ancillary systems.
• Implemented a new, contemporary system based on Oracle technologies.
  
  
2. Customers
• Enhanced data integrity by facilitating the comparison of loan data.
• Created a flexible reporting cycle for summary loan-level reporting.
• Provided an improved set of analytical tools and reports.
  
  
3. Controller’s and Control Environment
• Improved Audit and SOX controls.
• Implemented new account types (clearing, suspense, etc) for better control and visibility.
• Enhanced financial reporting and data marts.
• Improved cash management, cash control and account reconciliation
  
  
4. Single Family Operations
• Provided the ability to produce more accurate and timely disclosures.
• Eliminated the need for multiple operations teams via the ability to handle multiple amortization types in a single servicing platform.
• Implemented a workflow manager to provide an audit trail and allow status verification of transactions received, processed and failed.

Zak Designs
If you see children's dinnerware featuring the likeness of SpongeBob, Scooby-Doo or a popular Disney character, chances are it is a product of Zak Designs, a fast-growing privately held company based in Spokane, Wash. When Zak Designs was looking to replace its legacy applications with an Oracle software suite, they relied upon the experience and expertise of CSC's Global Oracle Practice to get the job done.

"It was a collaborative implementation," says Gavin Roberts, a principal consultant with CSC's Global Oracle Practice, who served as the project's manager. "The key thing is that we helped transition them off of their legacy applications onto a more mature and integrated platform that can facilitate their fast growth," Roberts says.

Prior to the Oracle 11i implementation, Zak Designs' order management and financial systems were fairly inefficient and disjointed. The project scope involved implementing a system that could unify and manage supply chain aspects such as ordering, distribution, packing and shipping, along with a wide range of financial components.

Roberts cites a key client benefit derived from the project: "They were able to greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to pack and ship things out. It used to take them three or four hours to put together a specific report that they use on a daily basis to manage their open orders, and we were able to shave that down to a few minutes."

"We couldn't be more pleased with the results of our project," Shill concludes. "We hit the ground running the day we went live with minimal interruption to our business, and now have a solid foundation to build on going forward."