Electronic Data Systems (EDS) ( . General Motors acquired the company in 1984. EDS became an independent company again in 1996. In as of 2004, it employed 117,000 people located in 60 countries, and reported revenues of US$20.7 billion. EDS is ranked as one of the largest services companies on the FORTUNE 500 list.

For 2004, 56% of revenue came from the Americas (Canada, Latin America, and the United States); 27% from Europe, Middle East, and Africa; 5% from Asia-Pacific; 4% from A.T. Kearney (EDS management consulting subsidiary); and 8% from other , such as currency exchange, asset sales, etc. Services revenue was: Infrastructure 52%, Applications software 24%, Business process outsourcing 12%, A.T. Kearney (management consulting) 4%, and other 8%.

=Services=

EDS catalogs its services into three service portfolios which are [http://www.eds.com/services/infrastructure/ Infrastructure], [http://www.eds.com/services/apps/ Applications], Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) [http://www.eds.com/services/bpo/]. Infrastructure services provides operating of part or all of a client s computer and communications infrastructure, such as networks, mainframes, midrange and Web servers, desktops/laptops, and printers. Applications services involve developing, integrating, and/or maintaining applications software for clients. Business process outsourcing is performing a business function for a client, like payroll, call centers, insurance claims processing, and so forth.

EDS has four (HR) outsourcing services jointly owned by Towers Perrin. SOLCORP provides software solutions and services for the life insurance and wealth management industries. Wendover supports consumer lending products.

EDS establishes a number of business alliances with other companies in the EDS Global Alliance program. The alliances are grouped into three which are the [http://www.eds.com/services/alliances/agility/ EDS Agility Alliance], [http://www.eds.com/services/alliances/solution/ Solution Alliances] and [http://www.eds.com/services/alliances/technology/ Technology Alliances].

EDS services a wide range of industries [http://www.eds.com/industries/] including communications, consumer, retail, energy, financial, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation.

==Agile Enterprise==

EDS in 2004 began promoting its [http://www.eds.com/services/agileenterprise/ Agile Enterprise] architecture, which it has developed with partners in the [http://www.eds.com/services/alliances/agility/ EDS Agility Alliance]. Members include Cisco Systems, Dell, Inc., EMC Corporation, Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, SAP AG, Siebel Systems, Sun Microsystems, Towers Perrin, and Xerox. The architecture is intended to help clients move from a legacy of 40 years of patchwork systems development to a modern architecture, which EDS claims will be both cheaper to operate and more adaptable to business change.

=Locations=

EDS operates in 60 counties. In the US, EDS largest locations are in the metropolitan areas of Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; and Northern Virginia. There are hundreds of sites throughout the US, in almost every state. In the UK, large sites are in London, Derby, Newcastle, Milton Keynes, Hook, Blackpool and Telford. In Canada, major offices are in Ottawa, Oshawa, Toronto, and Calgary. Brazil, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand also have major facilities.

EDS Plano, Texas, campus is located about 20 miles (30 km) north of downtown Dallas. The campus consists of 3,521,000 square feet (327,000 m²) of office and data center space on 270 acres (1.1 km²) of land. It is the center of the 2,665 acre (11 km²) [http://www.legacyinplano.com/ Legacy in Plano] real estate development, which EDS built.

=Clients=

Most of EDS clients are very large companies and governments that need services from a company of EDS scale. EDS largest client is General Motors (General Motors), which accounts for 9.7% of EDS revenue. Since GM has plants in 32 countries, EDS is one of a few IT services companies that can handle that kind of a client.

The current contract between General Motors and EDS expires in July of 2006. GM has said that they intend to contract with a variety of vendors, spreading more of the work to vendors beyond EDS. GM s IT spending has been declining for many years.

Another large EDS client is the U.S. Navy. In 2000, they won a contract for the creation of a US$9 billion Intranet linking the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. This initiative is known as the Navy Marine Corps Intranet, or simply NMCI. In 2004, NMCI accounted for about 4% of EDS revenue. NMCI has been called the largest private network in the world, with approximately 400,000 seats . EDS is providing the network, desktops, laptops, servers, telephones, video-conferencing, satellite transceivers, and overall management of the intranet.

Following on to the NMCI type of services, EDS in March 2005 won a US$4 billion contract with the U.K. Ministry of Defense to consolidate numerous existing information networks into a single next-generation infrastructure.... The network will provide seamless interaction between headquarters, battlefield support and the front line, linking about 150,000 desktop terminals and 340,000 users in approximately 2,000 locations....

Other major clients include American Airlines, Department for Work and Pensions, Bank of America, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mass., Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Freddie Mac, J.Crew, Nextel, Phoenix Life, Primedia, Rolls-Royce, Sabre Holdings, ThyssenKrupp Budd, Telecom New Zealand, Telefônica S.A. (Brazil), La Caixa, USPS, and Xerox.

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