LogicaCMG Appoints John Dettori to Lead Managed Testing Practice in North America

Business Wire, August 15, 2006

BURLINGTON, Mass. -- LogicaCMG announced today that veteran information technology executive John M. Dettori Jr. has joined the company as director of its managed testing practice in North America. Mr. Dettori will be responsible for the rollout of LogicaCMG's collaborative, integrated software testing and validation processes that have been used by more than 50 large firms in over 1,000 testing projects worldwide.

Mr. Dettori joined LogicaCMG from ABN AMRO Bank, where he created a centralized user-acceptance testing program. He has designed and delivered technical solutions and projects for financial services firms including Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, GE Capital, and Harris Bank and Trust during his career.

"In North America, testing has tended to be reactive and ad hoc, performed at the end of the software development life cycle. That approach often results in long lead times to market for new applications and infrastructure improvements. Changes and error fixes require companies to go back to the beginning and re-develop," said Dettori.

"Quality frequently takes a back seat with such methods. You can spend up to 70 percent of your application development budget on testing. The LogicaCMG method is different. It is a framework that integrates testing within the overall IT development process. Problems and bugs get discovered earlier. Our way brings tremendous cost savings, competitive advantage from getting to market quicker, and an information system that is tightly in sync and fully supportive of the client's business objectives," he continued.

Pioneering tradition, marquee clientele

LogicaCMG has been a leader in applications testing and development for three decades. The company employs approximately 4,500 people in its testing business worldwide and has testing factories in Bangalore, India; Rabat, Morocco; and Brno, Czech Republic. LogicaCMG publications on the subject include Integrated Test Design and Automation: Using the TestFrame Method and Successful Test Management: An Integrated Approach.

On April 26, 2006 the Netherlands-based ING Banking Group announced that LogicaCMG would take on approximately 350 of its IT staff as part of a six-year, 200 million Euro outsourcing contract for testing, maintenance, and application development. Other prominent firms that have benefited from LogicaCMG's testing solutions include ABN AMRO Bank, Tokyo Mitsubishi Bank, Vodafone, Deutsche Bank, Shell, Philips, and Lloyds TSB.

"Our company was one of the first major providers of IT services to recognize that testing is so important to our clients' success that we established it as a separate line of business. The global testing initiative that we launched in June of this year aims to reduce our clients' costs of testing products and applications by up to 30 percent," noted Karen A. Roche, president of LogicaCMG's financial services business in North America and former head of the business solutions and consulting unit at Wang Global.

"The North American market has a crying need to improve its methods of testing and validating changes to the processes, products, and systems that are critical to business operations. The Department of Commerce has reported that software bugs cost the U.S. economy more than 60 billion dollars a year. Our own research shows that almost ninety percent of IT projects experience problems within 48 hours after launch. That can be very costly, and it is due in large part to incomplete or inaccurate testing. Organizations are taking a hard look at what they are investing in this area, and they are coming to realize that the best course of action is to tap the expertise of a globally capable firm like LogicaCMG.

"We are very pleased that John Dettori has joined our North America team to spearhead the rollout of our managed testing initiative," she concluded.

About LogicaCMG

LogicaCMG is a major international force in IT services. It employs 30,000 people across 36 countries. LogicaCMG's focus is on enabling its customers to build and maintain leadership positions using LogicaCMG's deep industry knowledge and its track record for successful delivery. The company provides business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business process outsourcing across diverse markets including telecommunications, financial services, energy and utilities, industry, distribution and transport and the public sector. Headquartered in Europe, LogicaCMG is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information is available at www.logicacmg.com.