Mr Keats is running that first calculation free of charge, "in the interest of attracting a larger data-processing contract".
If a company did contract data processing, he'd visit a customer.
To date, 24 hospitals and 7 inpatient rehabilitation centres have signed contracts for commissioned data processing (orders for disclosure of data according to § 11 Federal Data Protection Act, BDSG), which already covers 75% of the eligible facilities in the federal state (figure 1).
Back in December 2002, when J.P. Morgan Chase announced a seven-year, $5 billion deal to outsource much of its data processing to I.B.M., both companies bragged that the contract -- the largest of its kind for I.B.M. -- would reduce costs, create value and propel innovation at J.P. Morgan.
By cutting costs the company is landing big service contracts, such as one to do data processing for Procter & Gamble, at $3 billion over ten years.
Typical deal in that genre is the $500 million contract IBM landed this month to run the data processing operations of Nestlé.
In January, the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved a five-year, $65.2 million contract with the I.B.M. Corporation to take over a data processing center used by New York City Transit and by other parts of the authority.
Applications deployed in these architectures specify QoS preferences (SLA contracts) that include execution and processing time, data pertinence and provenance, economic cost, and data processing energy consumption cost.
Data processing into electronic versions was also done by trained data clerks who had signed terms of reference contracts with clear stipulation of expected standards of confidentiality.
Computing started, after all, as "data processing".
