It reckons it makes net cost savings of about 40% on activities there including telephone sales, claims management, data processing and invoicing.
These services include marketing, sales, legal, accounting, finance, data processing, materials management, procurement, labor relations, and staff support for various network operations.
The company bought the computer maker Sun Microsystems two years ago and has been emphasizing sales of large systems for data processing at the expense of Sun's less expensive gear.
Mr. DeNardo took a sales job with Sandata Inc., a data processing and custom programming company in Port Washington.
With a shrug of the shoulders and a facial expression that says, "Okay, so I was naive," Lynn Blodgett, 53, chief executive officer of data processing company ACS (sales $5.8 billion), recalls his first attempt to photograph the homeless.
Senate President Mitch Carmichael, a Republican, had called for lowering the income tax while expanding the reach of the sales tax to include things like data processing and telecommunications services.
The credit card issuer MBNA plans to more than double the size of its sales and data-processing operations in Ireland, opening a center employing 300 people in the rural western part of the country.
Cognizant, based in Teaneck, N.J., said rising demand for its lower-cost data processing and software work in India would cause sales to rise by at least 44percentthis yearar, more than analysts expected.
Although sales and engineering departments in the capital plant industry are equipped with data processing systems, evidence shows that much information processing is carried out manually, that computer systems are not integrated and that data has to be entered repeatedly at various stages of the bidding, design and manufacturing process.
Computing started, after all, as "data processing".
