Market Perspectives
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Service-Oriented Architecture: The EDS Perspective
A proven source of technology expertise, answers and results, EDS stands ready to help companies analyze emerging trends in service-oriented architecture (SOA) capabilities. We understand the ramifications of the service-oriented approach, and can help guide organizations through the transformation needed to become more agile and successful.
Defining a problem can often be the most critical step in finding the solution. Once you understand the bigger issue and its connection to everyday operations, it is easier to clear a path to get there.
EDS leadership is applying this concept to our work with clients, helping them bridge the gap between conceptual market ideas and real-life answers, especially as they relate to technology. The topics are those we hear most often in conversations with our customers, so our focus is around answers that address their most common questions and concerns.
Although our definitions are unique to EDS, they are based on a deep knowledge and understanding of both the IT industry and the market as a whole, making them relevant and applicable to today's business leader.
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- Economic Downturn
- We're living in tumultous economic times. In this unstable environment, some may instinctively seek to retreat and retrench from making IT investments.
- EDS Designed for Run™
- EDS Designed for Run™ is an EDS corporate strategy that considers the function and expense of the client's IT systems and applications as a whole. It charts a complete course to meet the organization's goals and implements a measured modernization process while anticipating the client's cost of operating the final collective system over its life time.
- Enterprise Governance
- The role of governance takes on greater significance in today’s “always on” world. To stay competitive in this environment, organizations must take into account end-to-end customer experiences, longer-term objectives and corporate goals when making decisions. They must also develop effective IT strategies that align technology decisions with their business goals and objectives. EDS believes governance facilitates this process best when it is viewed at an enterprisewide level. It’s not just IT governance anymore.
- Enterprise Security
- Security should enable an organization to take calculated risks, not just minimize them. With EDS as your business ally, you'll have advanced solutions that let you confidently implement the most forward-thinking possibilities and get better results. You'll also be able to move beyond risk reduction and compliance to plans that enable your enterprise to achieve more, exceed expectations and embrace cutting edge technology. It's time to set business free.
- Enterprise Service Management (ESM)
- EDS' Enterprise Service Management (ESM) aligns the entire IT organization to common business goals and operating rules using an innovative suite of services and an industry best practice, standard ITIL-based operating environment.
- Growth
- Many enterprise technology footprints, both in the public and private sector, are outdated and weighed down by a 40-plus-year build-up of legacy systems. As a result, these systems are unable to support today’s demands, much less tomorrow’s. Business modernization and transformation help organizations respond to changing demands.
- Key To Successful Employee Transitions
- HP has learned that any employee transition relies on the success of each stage of the transition process, and each stage carries its own significance.
- Modernization
- Enterprise modernization renews and revitalizes information technology assets creating an agile, flexible IT environment that is more responsive to change, improves organization performance and maintains a leading edge.
- Multisupplier Governance and Service Integration
- Multisupplier governance helps companies achieve their business objectives through better management of complex outsourcing arrangements and improved IT transparency across the enterprise. Regardless of how IT services are delivered, a governance framework helps a company integrate multiple suppliers, better manage outcomes and assess effectiveness.
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- EDS’ Integration and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Services, backed by our 45 years of IT experience, provide you the clarity of vision to achieve SOA through manageable and measured steps.
- The Cloud
- The cloud is a dynamic addition to traditional IT capabilities. Read how HP and EDS work the cloud to deliver services and keep innovation alive.
- Virtualization
- Virtualization technologies are surfacing in every aspect of IT. Through active participation, EDS and its alliance partners are influencing the direction of virtualization to the benefit of organizations worldwide.