When X was created it was decided that it would continue to take services from the local operating companies including IT (00164). In the UK this meant XUK, XI, and ISD from Group Head Office. The projected cost for 1992 was £2.2 million (00182) but nevertheless they found they had very little influence on the UK systems (00315). At the start of the Multinational system the IT group in XI and ISD merged to form Group Information Services (GIS) who were commissioned to develop the system (00184). GIS tended to specialise in mini computers and PC LAN solutions (00250) and so had a lot more expertise in this area than XUK which was predominately Cobol/IMS on a mainframe (00249).
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