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EDS
This snapshot deals with Electronic Data Services (EDS),
a US IT services giant.
It covers -
introduction
[under development]
the enterprise
Electronic Data Systems (EDS) was established by Ross
Perot, a former US navy officer who scored a lucrative
data processing contract from the Texas government and
subsequently expanded into services for the US federal
government and major businesses before establishing operations
in the UK, Australia and elsewhere to serve local clients
and offshoots of US corporations. Perot sold EDS to General
Motors, going on to make an unsuccessful third-party bid
for election as US President.
EDS operations currently encompass systems integration,
application development, network and systems operation
(including data center management). The group operates
globally and after substantial losses earlier this decade
has been aggressively shifting its operations to low cost
regimes such as India.
EDS targets its services as the corporate market, in particular
major government agencies (for example the Australian
Taxation Office and Australian Customs Service) and large
enterprises in the health care, manufacturing (eg General
Motors), transport and health care sectors.
It was acquired by General Motors in but spun off for
US$28 billion in 1996. EDS acquired AT Kearney for US$600
million in 1995
key figures
EDS income in 2006 was around US$21.2 billion, with income
of US$470 million. The group claimed to have some 117,000
employees.
studies
There have been no major studies of EDS.
Ross Perot featured in works such as Gerald Posner's Ross
Perot and Third-Party Politics (New York: Random
1996) and Doron Levin's Irreconcilable Differences:
Ross Perot Versus General Motors (Boston: Little
Brown 1989).
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