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Xchanging

Xchanging is a business process and technology services provider and integrator, owned by DXC Technology, providing business services to the commercial insurance industry. In outsourcing, Xchanging will typically take over a customer's business process, or back office function, and incorporate them into an existing platform. Xchanging employs over 7,000 people worldwide. Xchanging offers IT outsourcing, infrastructure including network managed services, software products and application management. It also sells procurement services. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by CSC in May 2016. On 3 April 2017, DXC Technology announced that Xchanging was now part of the new company formed by the merger of CSC and HPE Enterprise Services.

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Xchanging is a business process and technology services provider and integrator, owned by DXC Technology, providing business services to the commercial insurance industry. In outsourcing, Xchanging will typically take over a customer's business process, or back office function, and incorporate them into an existing platform. Xchanging employs over 7,000 people worldwide. Xchanging offers IT outsourcing, infrastructure including network managed services, software products and application management. It also sells procurement services. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by CSC in May 2016. On 3 April 2017, DXC Technology announced that Xchanging was now part of the new company formed by the merger of CSC and HPE Enterprise Services.

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 1999 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "1999". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359645233

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