EDS

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EDS (or Electronic Data Systems) (NYSE: EDS) (LSE: EDC) is a global IT services company based in the US.

In 2004, EDS employed about 117,000 people located in 60 countries, and reported revenues of US$20.7 billion. EDS is ranked as one of the largest 100 companies on the FORTUNE 500 list.

Financials

For the 2004 year, 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.

The 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 four service portfolio's:

• Infrastructure (ITO)
• Applications
• Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
• A.T. Kearney - Management consulting company

Infrastructure services means operating 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 means developing, integrating, and/or maintaining applications software for clients.

Business process outsourcing means performing a business function for a client, like payroll, call centers, insurance claims processing, and so forth.

A.T. Kearney is a management consulting firm that operates as a fairly independent subsidiary of EDS. Kearney provides strategy, organization, operations, and technology advice to businesses.

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, including Central Kentucky, Montana, Iowa, Alabama, and many others.

In the UK, large sites are in London, Newcastle, Milton Keynes, Hook and Blackpool.

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) Legacy in Plano real estate development, which EDS built.

History

The company was established in 1962 by Ross Perot.

General Motors acquired the company in 1984.

EDS became an independent company again in 1996.

More about EDS, can be read in the Wikipedia article. (search). This article uses material from that article.