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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Computer Sciences
Corporation (NYSE: CSC) today announced that it has signed a five-year
business process outsourcing (BPO) contract with Bermuda-based Northstar
Financial Services Ltd. to support Northstar's rapid expansion strategy.
Under the agreement, CSC's life insurance and annuity BPO services team
will administer Northstar's new investment products, providing full
back-office services and technical support, including end-to-end policy
administration, a bilingual English-Spanish customer call center, new business
and payment processing, and commission processing for Northstar's investment
advisors. CSC's BPO team will use the company's Wealth Management Accelerator
software, which CSC developed to provide a single comprehensive administration
system for both asset accumulation and disbursement. The team will also use
CSC's Performance Plus software to help manage and measure commission
processing for Northstar.
"We're confident CSC's experience and flexibility can support our rapid
growth plans," said Nik Malvania, Northstar chief executive officer. "With
CSC's technology and business process expertise, we can achieve our strategic
objectives faster and with less risk."
"By combining our BPO services with our leading-edge wealth-management
technology, we can deliver operational results that will help Northstar
successfully expand," said Michael W. Risley, president of the Life and
Annuity division of CSC's Financial Services Group. "CSC's scalable BPO
operations deliver high-quality, cost-effective administration of insurance
and investment products."
CSC has been providing life insurance and annuity BPO services for more
than 20 years. Currently, the company provides end-to-end administration for
approximately 3.8 million life insurance policies and annuity contracts
representing nearly $3 billion in annual premium income.
About Northstar Financial Services
Northstar Financial Services (Bermuda) Ltd. is a Bermuda-based insurance
company with more than U.S. $1 billion in assets. As a wholly owned subsidiary
of Northstar Financial Services Ltd., its senior management team comprises
experts in insurance, money management and related industries, and the company
currently offers both fixed income and equity investment products to non-U.S.
persons that are specifically designed to grow client assets while providing
principal protection strategies, regardless of how markets perform.
About CSC
Computer Sciences Corporation is a leading global information technology
(IT) services company. CSC's mission is to provide customers in industry and
government with solutions crafted to meet their specific challenges and enable
them to profit from the advanced use of technology.

With approximately 77,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for
customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC's own
advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and
business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and
application hosting; and management consulting. Headquartered in El Segundo,
Calif., CSC reported revenue of $14.7 billion for the 12 months ended Dec. 29,
2006. For more information, visit the company's Web site at
http://www.csc.com.
SOURCE Computer Sciences Corporation
CONTACT: Jackie VanErp, Vice President, Marketing, Financial Services Group, +1-512-275-5844, jvanerp@csc.com, or Janet Herin, Manager, Media Relations, Corporate +1-310-615-1693, jherin@csc.com, both of Computer Sciences Corporation