EDS
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| EDS | |
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| Web: | http://www.eds.com |
| Email: | |
| Phone: | +1-800-566-9337 |
| Fax: | +1 972 604 6000 |
| Address: | 5400 Legacy Drive, Plano, Texas 75024, United States |
| Geocode: | 33.073778;-96.81087 |
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| Founding: | 1962 |
| Employees: | 117000 |
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| Parents: | |
| Subsidiaries: | A.T. Kearney, SOLCORP |
| Affiliates: | |
| Partners: | Cisco, Dell, EMC, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Siebel, Sun Microsystems, Xerox |
| Customers: | General Motors, Carrefour, American Airlines, 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, Telefonica, USPS, Xerox |
| Competitors: | IBM, Getronics, CMG, Atos Origin, Capgemini |
Web | |
| Web: | google, yahoo |
| News: | google, yahoo |
| Blogs: | google, technorati |
| Articles: | g-scholar, g-books, worldcat, bookfinder, del.icio.us |
| Financial: | google, yahoo, hoovers, bloomberg |
| Images: | google, yahoo, flickr |
| Audio: | odeo, podscope |
| Video: | google, youtube |
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.
News
- Sarah Palin Tea Party Speech at a National Convention in Nashville - Associated Content
- Wind farm system excels at remote monitoring and control - HazardEx
- 3 Eds, 3 QBs, 1 Super Bowl winner | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/04/2010 - Philadelphia Inquirer
- British Sky Broad: Wins Legal Action Against EDS - Wall Street Journal
- My favorite Super Bowl ad - TechFlash (blog)
- EDS to pay interim damages of £200m (US$317 million) to BSkyB - Customer Think (blog)
- Will Oracle-Sun deal restore order to galaxy? - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
- NEW DATA TO GIVE PUBLIC BETTER INFO ON EDS - My Sunshine Coast (press release)
- Banks need to workaround new VAT law - ComputerWeekly.com (blog)
- Top Ten Super Bowl Tech Ads - Hard OCP
- ... more news
Blogs
- New Op-Eds on Special Education Funding Reform – Reform Special ...
- Monday's Op/Eds: Worker's Rights, Race to the Top, & More ...
- Super Bowl Sunday's Op/Eds: The Baldacci Budget, Special Education ...
- EDS court defeat puts vendors on their guard - 02 Feb 2010 - Computing
- Roll out the Barrel: 2010 Topps Needs List
- Today's Op-Eds: Obama's Budget, Gingrich On Bipartisanship ...
- Fallout from EDS-BSkyB: higher prices, more red tape - CIO News ...
- Key EDS witness in BSkyB case discredited for buying internet ...
- EDS loses vital court case against BSkyB - V3.co.uk - formerly ...
- Will BSkyB's victory over HP-EDS change outsourcing? - Page 1 ...
- ... more blog news
Video
- EDS "Airplane"
- EDS, an HP Company 'Cat Herders'
- Airplane - EDS Commercial
- The Eds Adventures of Atlantis the lost Empire
- EDS - Cat Herding
- Study: In Afghan Debate, Few Antiwar Op-Eds in Nation's Two Leading ...
- SKODA SAFETY SYSTEMS: EDS + ASR
- EDS Cat Herder
- interview Alfred - Congo EDS
- Boys Will Be Eds
Jobs
- EDS Analyst - Zebra Corp - Vernon Hills, IL
- Senior EDS Analyst - Zebra Corp - Lincolnshire, IL
- Psls EDS Cons V - HP - Plano, TX
- EDS Analyst - Zebra Technologies - Vernon Hills, IL
- Sls Consult IV, EDS - HP - Plano, TX
- Consultant, E-Discovery Services (EDS) - Clearwell Systems - Washington, DC
- Senior EDS Analyst - Zebra Technologies - Lincolnshire, IL
- Psls EDS Cons V - HP - Herndon, VA
- Rehabilitation Job Developer (EDS) - ServiceSource - Alexandria, VA
- DMS-II/EDS Part time DBA (Amelia, OH) - Trasys, Inc. - Amelia, OH
- Product Engineer - MSXI - Allen Park, MI
- Manager, Business Planning II - HP - Palo Alto, CA
- Exp. NP's / PA's - Emergency Medicine - *New Mexico *Arizona *Texas - Hospital Dream Jobs - Arizona, TX
- Training Specialist - General Physics Corporation - Bourbonnais, IL
- Information Management Principal - SunGard - New York, NY
- Director Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness - U.S. Chamber of Commerce - Washington, DC
- Pricing Senior Specialist - CompuCom - Dallas, TX
- Training Administrator/Customer Service Specialist - General Physics Corporation - Orlando, FL
- Executive Director in Training - Atria Senior Living Group - Louisville, KY
- Operations Coordinator - General Physics Corporation - Columbia, MD
- ... more jobs
EDS properties
RDF feed| Address | 5400 Legacy Drive, Plano, Texas 75024, United States +address lookup |
| Competitor | IBM +, Getronics +, CMG +, Atos Origin +, and Capgemini + |
| Coordinates | 33°4′25.601″N, 96°48′39.132″W +online maps, Google maps |
| Customer | General Motors +, Carrefour +, American Airlines +, 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 +, Telefonica +, USPS +, and Xerox + |
| Employees | 117,000 + |
| Exchange | NYSE +, and LSE + |
| Fax | +1 972 604 6000 + |
| Founding | 1962 + |
| Fullname | EDS + |
| Homepage | http://www.eds.com + |
| Partner | Cisco +, Dell +, EMC +, Microsoft +, Oracle +, SAP +, Siebel +, Sun Microsystems +, and Xerox + |
| Phone | +1-800-566-9337 + |
| Region | Plano +, Texas +, United States +, and World + |
| Sector | IT +, system +, software +, hardware +, consulting +, and services + |
| Sub | A.T. Kearney +, and SOLCORP + |



