26 July 2010

AMP, one of Australia’s leading wealth management companies, has selected a cloud computing service from CSC.

CSC will provide the company with Collaborative Online Services (COS), its private cloud-based e-mail and collaboration solution providing feature-rich e-mail, instant messaging and team collaboration, based on the Microsoft product set (Exchange, Office Communication Server and SharePoint).

COS is hosted onshore in an Australian data centre, reducing concerns over data sovereignty and assuring compliance to the country’s privacy regulations, while also avoiding performance latency issues and the high network costs associated with using offshore cloud computing services.

AMP’s IT director, service management Sharmini Sivathas said: “For the past 18 months, we have been exploring strategies to increase the use of cloud-based services. Starting with low-risk services, we embarked upon a multi-vendor pilot for e-mail and collaboration services as our first production services to move to the cloud.”

“Financial benefits were a key consideration for us, along with interoperability with our current environment, and confidence in our chosen service partner. The Microsoft product suite, the COS solution and delivery by our long-standing IT partner CSC are key components of our technology roadmap,” Sivathas concluded.

"AMP has chosen e-mail and collaboration tools as the first production system to progress on its roadmap,” said Matthew Day, vice president, Financial Services, Health and Public Sector for CSC in Australia.

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