CSC's FirstDoc Recognized by EMC as a Preferred Regulatory Compliance Application...

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CSC's FirstDoc Recognized by EMC as a Preferred Regulatory Compliance
Application for Life Sciences Industry
CSC Solutions Built on EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management Platform





FALLS CHURCH, Va., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced an
agreement with EMC Corporation to offer advanced compliance solutions to the
life sciences industry. As part of the agreement, EMC will now offer CSC's
FirstDoc as a preferred regulatory compliance application. FirstDoc, based on
the EMC((R)) Documentum((R)) enterprise content management platform, has more
than 100,000 users worldwide. 

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"Over the last decade, FirstDoc has consistently met the highest level of
certification standards set by EMC, validating the design, performance and
scalability of the application," said Jay DeWalt, vice president of Indirect &
Solution Sales, Content Management and Archiving Division at EMC. "The latest
release of FirstDoc, based on the Documentum 6.5 platform, demonstrates CSC's
continued focus on innovation and on improving the end user's experience and
productivity."

"We're delighted that EMC recognizes FirstDoc as a preferred regulatory
compliance application for the life sciences industry," said Nigel Whitehead,
managing director of Life Sciences in CSC's Healthcare Group. "Documentum is
an enterprise content management platform of choice for CSC's large and mid
market customers, and we continue to design FirstDoc to take advantage of the
platform's most robust features that now include access to FirstDoc and
Documentum through SharePoint. We are committed to integrating FirstDoc with
other complementary EMC products such as EMC Documentum Retention Policy
Services, EMC Captiva InputAccel and EMC Documentum Content Transformation
Services."

FirstDoc is designed to help life sciences companies with the enormous
challenge and expense of meeting increased regulatory scrutiny and quality
procedures. Specifically, it helps companies meet Part 11 of Title 21 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR Part 11) to ensure that electronic records
and signatures are equivalent to those based on traditional paper based
methods. 

Earlier this year, CSC introduced new releases of its FirstDoc SharePoint
Experience (SPX) and FirstDoc Collaborative Review Experience (CRX) content
management solutions. In addition to being a cost-effective way to increase
user access in a controlled SharePoint setting, SPX includes CSC's Secure
Clinical Collaboration, which enhances controlled and cost effective
collaboration between partner and sponsor. CRX offers controlled real-time
co-authoring and edit capabilities with tools that augment the authoring
process such as Microsoft Word, discussion threads, calendars, broadcast
announcements and external Web site links. Other features include the ability
to personalize SharePoint Web parts, or the building blocks of a SharePoint
page, according to user role and content access privilege. 

CSC's Healthcare Group, which serves healthcare providers, health plans,
pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, and allied industries around
the world, is a global leader in transforming the healthcare industry through
the effective use of information to improve healthcare outcomes,
decision-making and operating efficiency.

About CSC
CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services
through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions and
Services, the Managed Services Sector and the North American Public Sector.
CSC's advanced capabilities include systems design and integration,
information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software
development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management
consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 92,000
employees and reported revenue of $16.74 billion for the 12 months ended April
3, 2009. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.csc.com.

Footnote:
EMC and Documentum are registered trademarks of EMC Corporation and its
subsidiaries.





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Rich Venn, Manager, Media Relations, Corporate, +1-310-615-3926,
rvenn@csc.com, or Janet Herin, Senior Manager, Media Relations, Corporate,
+1-310-615-1693, jherin@csc.com, both of CSC
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