Electronic Information Systems (EDS) (LSE: [http://www.londonstockexchange.com/en-gb/pricesnews/prices/system/detailedprices.htm?sym=US2856611049USGBXIRSQ2310655EDC EDC]) is a controversial, spherical IT consulting company that defined the outsourcing business when it was established within 1962 by Ross Perot. These are headquartered around Plano, Texas. General Motors acquired the company within 1984. EDS became an independent company once agaaround in 1996. Around 2004, it employed 117,000 humans located in Lx countries, & reported revenues of Me$20.7 billion. EDS is ranked when one of a big services corporations on the FORTUNE 500 names.

For 2004, 56% of revenue came from either either either either The Americas (Canada, Latin United states of america, & a United States); 27% from Europe, Middle East, & Africa; 5% from Asia-Pacific; 4% from A.T. Kearney (EDS' management consulting subsidiary); & 8% from either "other", like currency exchange, plus sales, etc. Services' revenue was: Infrastructure 52%, Applications software package 24%, Business run outsourcing 12%, The.T. Kearney (management consulting) 4%, & more 8%.

Services

EDS catalogs its services into tercet service portfolios which are then [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 will bring operating of section or even completely of the client's computer & communications infrastructure, like networks, mainframes, "midrange" & Web servers, desktops/laptops, & printers. Applications services require getting, integrating, and/or maintaining applications software system for clients. Business run outsourcing is performing the business work for the client, prefer payroll, call centre, insurance claims processing, so forth.

EDS has 4 subsidiaries which are A.T. Kearney [http://www.atkearney.com/], [http://www.excelleratehro.com/ ExcellerateHRO], [http://www.solcorp.com/ SOLCORP] and [http://www.wendover.com/ Wendover]. The.T. Kearney occurs as management consulting firm that provides strategy, organization, operations, & technology advice to businesses. ExcellerateHRO offers human resources (HR) outsourcing services jointly owned by Towers Perrin. SOLCORP will bring software program solutions & services for the life assurance & wealth management industries. Wendover supports consumer loaning products.

EDS establishes the total of business alliances with other corporations in the EDS Spherical Alliance program. A alliances come grouped into triplet which are then a [http://www.eds.com/services/alliances/agility/ EDS Agility Alliance], [http://www.eds.com/services/alliances/solution/ Solution Alliances] & [http://www.eds.com/services/alliances/technology/ Technology Alliances].

EDS services the wide range of industries [http://www.eds.com/industries/] including communications, consumer, retail, energy, fiscal, government, health care, manufacturing, & transport.

Agile Enterprise

EDS within 2004 began promoting its [http://www.eds.com/services/agileenterprise/ Agile Enterprise] architecture, which it has developed using 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 meant to help clients move from either the bequest of Xl years of patchwork systems development to a modern architecture, which EDS claims is two cheaper to work & thomas more reaffiliation to business vary.

Locations

EDS operates within Lx counties. In the America, EDS' big locations come in the metropolitan areas of Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; and Northern Virginia. There are hundreds of web sites throughout a United states of america, within virtually each state. inside the UK, big web sites come in London, Bowler hat, Newcastle, Milton Keynes, Hook, Blackpool & Telford. Around Canada, major agents come within Ottawa, Oshawa, Toronto, and Calgary. Brazil, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand also have major facilities.

EDS' Plano, Texas, campus is located astir Twenty miles (Xxx kilometer) northward of downtown Dallas. A campus consists of 3,521,000 square feet (327,000 m²) of professional & informatiin center space on 270 land (Single.I kilometre²) of land. These are a center of the 2,665 acre (Xi kilometer²) [http://www.legacyinplano.com/ Legacy in Plano] real-estate development, which EDS built.

Clients

Virtually all of EDS' clients may be big corporations & governments that require services from either the company of EDS' shell. EDS' big client is GM (General Motors), which accounts for 9.7% of EDS' revenue. Since Gramme has plants inside 32 countries, EDS is one of two or three IT services corporations that might treat that rather the client.

A todays contract between General Motors & EDS expires within July of 2006. Gram has said that it intend to locate the kind of marketer, spreading extra of the function to vender beyond EDS. Gramme's IT disbursal has been declining for numbers of years.

A second big EDS client is the U.S. Navy. Around 2000, they won the contract for the creation of the America$9 billion intranet linking the Navy and the Marine Corps. This initiative is referred to as a Navy Marine Corps Intranet, or only NMCI. Inside 2004, NMCI accounted for just about 4% of EDS' revenue. NMCI has been known as a big personal network in the globe, by using just about 400,000 "seats". EDS is providing a network, desktops, laptop computer, servers, telephones, streaming videos-conferencing, satellite transceivers, & overall management of the intranet.

As punishment within to a NMCI nature and severity of services, EDS in March 2005 won the America$4 billion locate 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...."

More 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), USPS, and Xerox.