Second Managed Services Customer

XL Capital Ltd., a financial services company based in Bermuda, has signed a managed services contract with Microsoft, the second such contract since Microsoft began offering managed desktop services in 2005. XL Capital becomes the company’s second managed services customer, after Energizer Holdings.

As with Energizer Holdings, Microsoft will manage the company’s desktop PCs using Group Policy, remote administration, and other Microsoft technologies, some of which the company has developed or refined specifically for its managed services offering. Microsoft will also host Exchange and SharePoint servers for XL Capital in Microsoft data centers. Financial terms have not been disclosed.

XL Capital has about 4,000 PCs and 3,600 employees in 78 offices in 29 countries, according to information on the company’s Web site (xlcapital.com). Traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol XL) and included in the S&P 500, the company was founded in 1986 and specializes in insurance for industrial, commercial, and professional services companies, and reinsurance for other insurance companies.