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CSC's subsidiary is listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited under the name Automated Systems Holdings Limited (The ASL Group, Stock Code: 771). Below is the company profile of ASL.
Automated Systems (HK) Limited was founded in Hong Kong in 1973 and was listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited under the name Automated Systems Holdings Limited (The ASL Group, Stock Code: 771) in November 1997. The ASL Group is a major subsidiary of CSA Holdings Ltd. (The CSA Group) in Singapore, whose ultimate controlling shareholder is the U.S.-listed Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).
CSC, a Fortune 500 company with over 800 locations worldwide, is a leading global information technology services company with an established 48-year track record of delivering business results to hundreds of clients across industries worldwide. The ASL Group, consists of Automated Systems (HK) Limited (Hong Kong head office and Taiwan Automated Systems Ltd.), ELM Computer Technologies Limited, CSA Automated (Macau) Ltd., Guangzhou Automated Systems Limited and ASL Automated (Thailand) Ltd.
The ASL Group offers professional information technology services to corporate clients in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, South China and Thailand. After 35 years of success, the ASL Group has established its reputation as a leading systems integrator and total solutions provider in the region. The Group, in Hong Kong and Macau alone, has over 1,300 employees dedicated to delivering a comprehensive one-stop service. With its strong commitment to quality services, the ASL Group has worked with well-known clients such as government agencies, prestigious universities, telecommunications giants, transportation enterprises, major financial institutions and leading international corporations.
Business Services
The ASL Group provides a complete range of information technology services including:
- Application development is tailored to each customer's special needs and IT environment with individual unique features. There is development of turnkey solutions or software customization for various operating platforms.
- Consultancy provides independent assessment and implementation advice to a company's internal applications, systems and networks, and proposes suitable solutions with market proven methods and tools to enable better management of all applications, systems and networks.
- Data center managed service provides a suite of 7 x 24 customized services in a customer's offices or in ASL data center to ensure business continuity and effective management of mission-critical computing resources and business operations.
- Digital imaging converts documents of all kinds from hardcopies into electronic files by using advanced imaging technologies and equipment. Systematic operation processes are undertaken for the conversion, including warehousing, classification, scanning, quality control, re-assembly, indexing, filing, storage and retrieval.
- Help desk serves as a centralized service-call operation with advanced monitoring system to effectively handle customers' enquiries on all technical issues.
- Maintenance support is provided to enterprises of every type and size by certified and experienced engineers with guaranteed fast response time, flexible service coverage, ample supply of spare parts, broad level of service and remedial software support.
- Multi-vendor support helps manage customer's wide range of IT systems of hardware and software products in different brands, from personal computers to high-end servers, and from operating systems to application software.
- Outsourcing provides cost-effective programs that help customers manage business issues and achieve optimal business results. It offers updated technologies, advanced computing tools, flexible service package, prompt replacement of absent outsourcing staff and temporary headcount fulfillment for unplanned projects.
- Regional support is available to customers by leveraging resources of the regional service centers and offices which provide a full geographical coverage of standardized services, IT resources, and localized maintenance support.
- Systems integration comprises building architecture, testing and implementing a full application-ready distributed computing platform and integrating it into the customers' existing IT infrastructure. The process also involves project evaluation and planning, systems design and development, as well as integration and deployment.
- Systems relocation relocates a company's computing resources from the current site to a new site within a scheduled time frame while ensuring minimal system downtime. The complete process involves relocation planning, site audit, rack design, systems disconnection, connection, testing and implementation, transportation and insurance arrangement, contingency plan, and liaison with third-party vendors.
- Training service offers a full range of on-site and off-site IT courses for customers to choose, including customized courses on various technology areas. The programs provide skill-building training for enterprise-wide personnel and system administrators to manage their IT infrastructure.
Company Offices
The ASL Group has offices and service centers in Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, Thailand and Taiwan. Through its association with CSC, the Group possesses a network of offices that spans Asia, including countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, PRC, and Indonesia.
Customers
The ASL Group has grown to become the leading systems integrator and total IT solutions provider, offering IT services to many industries.
- The ASL Group has serviced more than 100 government departments since the 1970s and has provided and installed thousands of computer systems, networks, and software applications for various government departments. It has also offered IT outsourcing service to the government, including data conversion of over 3.5 million plans for the Land Registry; and application maintenance and related support services for the information systems of Customs and Excise Department, Department of Health and Highways Department.
- The ASL Group maintains a strong customer base in the education sector in Hong Kong. Comprehensive administrative and academic computing solutions and services provided by the Group are deployed in many leading Asian universities and most local primary and secondary schools. These include the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the City University of Hong Kong, the University of Macau, Salesian English School, and True Light Primary School.
- The ASL Group has provided numerous computer systems to various public organizations including the Hong Kong Housing Society, CLP Power HK Ltd., China Gas Company and Hong Kong Jockey Club. ASL implemented systems, such as the Electronic Data Interchange System for Hospital Authority, have facilitated inter-departmental information exchange in various hospitals and raised the quality of medical service to the community.
- The ASL Group plays a major role in providing sophisticated IT systems to the telecommunications and transportation industries which require timely and cost-effective solutions. Customers in the telecommunications industry include PCCW, SUNDAY, AT&T, Hutchison and Nortel Networks. Transportation organizations served by the Group include Cathay Pacific Airways, Maersk Hong Kong, Logistics Information Network Enterprise, Modern Terminal and MTR Corporation.
- The ASL Group has provided reliable IT solutions, particularly security, data storage and stock trading solutions, to many leading banking and financial institutions. Some of these institutions are Standard Chartered Bank, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, BOCI Online Trading Limited, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, and the Bank of East Asia, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Reuters (HK) Limited and Goldman Sachs.
- The ASL Group offers superior-quality services, including the supply and installation of computer systems and maintenance support, to cater to the needs of customers in the commercial sector. Well-known commercial corporations include Cafe de Coral, Midland Realty, Sealed Air Hong Kong Limited and Colby International Limited. ASL also serves local newspaper and publishing companies in this sector, including SCMP.com, Apple Daily News and Oriental Press Group, as well as international publishing firms such as Asian Wall Street Journal.
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