RNS Number:9997V
Xansa PLC
02 March 2004
Press Release
2 March 2004
BARCLAYCARD EXTENDS XANSA PARTNERSHIP WITH
JOINT BUSINESS PROCESS & IT SERVICES #10 MILLION CONTRACT
Xansa, the international business process and IT services company, and
Barclaycard are pleased to announce that Xansa has won a significant extension
to the Xansa Barclaycard Partnership. The contract for over #10m covers business
process and IT services extending over a three-year period.
This order reflects Xansa's ability to deliver considerable benefits to clients
through integrated business process and IT services. It will be delivered
through a new business process contract with Barclays in addition to an
extension of the existing Xansa Barclaycard Partnership.
The new contract follows the success of the Barclaycard Fraud Chargeback
programme which Xansa has been delivering for over two years. Xansa has
implemented a new Issuer and Debit Card Chargeback service in just eight weeks,
whilst tripling the size of the team to 100, delivering business process
services for Barclaycard.
In addition, the IT services provided will be an extension of the Xansa
Barclaycard Partnership and will include:Programme and Project Development,
Implementation, Application Support and Maintenance and Consultancy Services to
support key business platforms.
Commenting on the announcement, David Curd, Barclaycard IT and Operations
Director said,
"We chose Xansa because of its flexible, responsive approach, coupled with its
track record of providing complex back-office processes that deliver real value
to the bottom line beyond simple cost reduction."
Alistair Cox, Chief Executive Xansa said,
"This extension of our Partnership shows that by providing responsive,
innovative proposals that leverage both business process and IT services, we can
consistently deliver real benefits. Increasingly, our clients are realising the
additional benefits of addressing business process and IT services together,
rather than regarding them as separate requirements."
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Contact:
Steve Stratton Ian Barber
Investor Relations Director, Xansa Senior PR Manager, Barclays
Tel : + 44 (0)8702 416181 Tel : +44 (0)1604 251229
Email : steve.stratton@xansa.com
Giles Sanderson / James Melville-Ross
Financial Dynamics
Tel : + 44 (0)20 7831 3113
About Xansa
Xansa is an international business process and IT services company creating and
delivering process and technology solutions that significantly improve its
clients' business performance. Throughstrong relationships, commercial
innovation and its integrated Indian delivery capability, Xansa drives real and
long-term cost reductions, performance improvements and new ways of working
tailored to each client. Its services are Business and Technology Consulting, IT
Implementation, IT Outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing.
About Barclaycard
Barclaycard is Europe's leading issuer of credit cards with 11.4 million
customers and 13.6 million cards in circulation worldwide. Barclaycard launched
in Portugal and Ireland in 2004 following the launch in South Africa in 2003.
Also operates in Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, France and Africa.
Barclaycard can be used to pay for goods and services in more than 30 million
placesin over 200 countries and to withdraw cash from over 850,000 ATMs and
banks worldwide.
Barclaycard was set up in 1966 and was the UK's first credit card. Barclaycard
was the first and is the UK's leading card services provider on the Internet.
More than 1million customers regularly use Barclaycard's online account
services.
About Xansa Barclaycard Partnership
Xansa's partnership with Barclaycard follows more than 15 years of working
successfully with Barclays group. In 2002 the Xansa Barclaycard Partnership was
established, a joint business venture that transferred some 450 Barclays people
to Xansa. This five-year contract is committed to producing 26% savings, worth
#58 million, through productivity gains and the integrated delivery of IT
services from the UK and India.
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