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- Navigating Successful Transitions (30 Jun 2009)
- In the services business, an organization’s employees are the true differentiator. EDS and HP have extensive experience bringing new employees into an organization through outsourcing relationships. Based on this expertise, we’ve developed the HP End-to-End Employee Transition process. This proven process is designed to help our client’s employees navigate through change while minimizing business disruptions.
- Tulsa Data Center Expands (25 Jun 2009)
- EDS is putting the finishing touches on a 14-month expansion project that doubles the size of its Service Management Center (SMC) in Tulsa, Okla., to 179,000 square feet, including 80,000 square feet of high density raised floor space.
- Deliver Positive Business Outcomes In a Downturn: Rethink Your Outsourcing Strategy (18 Jun 2009)
- In this economic crisis, it's time to rethink how IT delivers services to the business. EDS believes a smart outsourcing strategy is essential to thriving in a downturn. To help, we're offering a complimentary report from Forrester Research that describes how IT executives today can leverage a next-generation outsourcing strategy to generate critical business outcomes.
Download your complimentary copy of the Forrester report "New Market Pressures Will Drive Next-Generation IT Services Outsourcing" now. - NMCI Virtualization Recognized with InfoWorld's Green 15 Award (17 Jun 2009)
- NMCI's virtualization initiative, recognized with a Green 15 Award, will save the Navy more than $1.6 million annually in energy costs or about $700 per virtualized server. This level of decreased power consumption means we essentially eliminate four tons of carbon emissions per server, per year. That is the equivalent of taking 2,800 cars off the road each year.
- HP Wins 2009 Citrix Ready Solution of the Year Award (15 Jun 2009)
- On May 3, Citrix announced its selection of HP as the Citrix Ready Solution of the Year Award winner for 2009. Announced at Synergy, Citrix’s annual reseller and customer conference, the award is recognition of a long-standing collaborative partnership that has fostered an impressive array of technical solutions and outsourced service offerings.
- Accelerating Success Through Innovation (05 Jun 2009)
- EDS has a consistent and connected global approach to delivering Innovation and it starts by learning more about a client’s business. Through our Innovation Agenda, a formal client partnership, we have a continuous dialogue to focus on delivering innovation that meets their needs. We can plan with the client to anticipate future trends and implement innovative approaches that will keep the client ahead of the game.
- Three Innovation Don'ts (04 Jun 2009)
- Some efforts to drive innovation only result in driving it away. Here are some common mistakes to avoid, along with tips for finding innovation that may be hiding right under your nose.
- Why You Can’t Ignore Social Media (04 Jun 2009)
- Social media has grown far beyond 15-year-olds with smart phones. Other companies are joining the conversation. Here’s why you should, too.
- HP Oracle eNewsletter (27 May 2009)
- HP and Oracle engineers work closely to optimize the performance of Oracle applications running on HP technology to deliver the highest performance at the lowest cost.
- Transforming Healthcare Data into Knowledge (26 May 2009)
- The Knowledge Discovery Viewpoint Paper, authored by Kit Gorton, M.D. Vice President, Medical Management and Franklin Din, M.D., Director, EDS Medical Informatics Center of Excellence, addresses how organizations spend valuable resources collecting and managing terabytes of data, yet struggle to turn the data into the knowledge required to make decisions about benefit design and program investments.
- Ecological Mandates Set New Business Standards (18 May 2009)
- Earlier this year, EDS, the enterprise services business unit of HP, and Aviva, the world's fifth-largest insurance group and the biggest in the UK signed a major outsourcing agreement, worth $1 billion over 10 years that will have EDS purchasing two data centers on behalf of Aviva and running the operations of those centers for a decade.
- Rapid SAP Execution For Rapid Success (12 May 2009)
- HP Rapid Transition Services, a new offering co-developed by EDS, an HP company, HP, and SAP, help customers streamline their SAP implementations, while accelerating their return on investment and lowering their long-term support and maintenance costs.
- HP Helps Telecoms Manage the Customer Experience with New Operations Support Systems Software (07 May 2009)
- HP today introduced three software solutions to help communications service providers manage the customer experience to create greater loyalty, especially among high-value customers.
- Enterprise Cloud: A Measured Approach (17 Apr 2009)
- The cloud is an evolutionary change for IT. Enterprise cloud is a nebulous cloud which links users, information and services while reducing business costs. Learn more.
- Cloud Computing Now? (17 Apr 2009)
- The powerful potential of cloud computing is no longer on the horizon. Drive usage while driving down internal costs, improve flexibility and agility in your IT infrastructure, and create a richer customer experience. Read how cloud computing can help you.
- Top Five Things To Know About Cloud (17 Apr 2009)
- Top five things you need to know about cloud: what it is, what it is not, opportunities, benefits, and inherent issues.
- Keeping Innovation Alive (17 Apr 2009)
- You and your competitors are affected by the economic downturn. Downturns breed powerful innovations with potentially far-reaching consequences. To create the future you want, read more.
- Helping Governments Serve People Through Contact Centers (14 Apr 2009)
- Government agencies want to stay ahead of increased Citizen demand and still provide quality services quickly and accurately – without jeopardizing security and citizen privacy. EDS, an HP company, can help agencies improve service quality for citizens, deal with increased contact volumes (phone, email, web chat, fax), and reduce the cost of operations, freeing up agencies to focus on cost savings and meeting transparency and accountability requirements.
- HP Global Citizenship Report (06 Apr 2009)
- Global citizenship encompasses our commitment to hold ourselves to high standards of integrity, contribution and accountability as we balance and align our business goals with our impact on society and the planet.
- Reduce, Reclaim and Extend: The Energy Efficient Data Center (06 Apr 2009)
- With mounting pressure to meet computing demand while lowering costs, interest in improving the energy efficiency of data centers – which can represent up to 40 percent of an enterprise's energy use – is on the rise.1 HP recommends taking a holistic approach. Learn how.
- Morale Management (30 Mar 2009)
- Two certainties of management are crisis and change, and when they arrive together, it has the ability to shake an enterprise to the core. At a time when even stalwart companies are undergoing significant changes, maintaining morale is both a challenge and a mandate. Using the right approach can create a stronger leadership team and build confidence among the ranks at every level—even in the current climate.
- Five Ways to Cut Costs (30 Mar 2009)
- The current economic turmoil has battered corporate revenues with shocking swiftness. Executives are confronting tough decisions on the future of employees, departments, and facilities. The pressure to cut is significant. Yet as the Merrill Lynch case illustrates, such maneuvers entail risk.
- Partner With a Strong Ally In a Weak Economy (30 Mar 2009)
- For more than 50 years, EDS, an HP company, has helped thousands of clients reduce operating costs, keep critical projects moving forward while conserving capital and prepare for future growth. During both good economic times and bad, we’ve been there with our customers every step of the way providing innovative technology services around the globe.
- EDS Named to 2009 Global Green 100 List for Corporate Leadership in IT Energy Efficiency (24 Mar 2009)
- The Uptime Institute announced that EDS is among the corporations selected for its 2009 Global Green 100 list. The list highlights the significant energy efficiency achievements of global corporations operating major data centers.
- Synchronization, Speed and Security in Government Logistics (23 Mar 2009)
- The third issue of EDS' Government Journal, a compilation of thought leadership papers on a variety of government issues, focuses on the topic of supply chain and logistics, discussing how data visibility and fusion are beneficial to asset-intensive agencies, such as defense, ports, borders and energy agencies.
- A Strong Ally In a Tough Economic Battle (10 Mar 2009)
- EDS’ Managed Services Suite can jump-start cost reductions for your business today and increase your competitive advantage for tomorrow. This comprehensive suite of managed services offers flexible sourcing engagements with a fast ROI and predictable pricing to help you target cost savings that best align to business priorities.
- Mergers & Acquisitions (17 Feb 2009)
- Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can help organizations achieve greater operational and financial scale so that they may compete more successfully in the marketplace. A positive M&A event can produce synergies and cost savings that deliver tangible benefits in the form of earnings growth and improved cash flow.
- Preparedness Keeps Navy and Marine Corps Connectivity Operational During Inauguration (17 Feb 2009)
- To ensure minimal disruption or loss of NMCI connectivity during the National Capital Region (NCR) for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration from Jan. 20-21, an EDS-led core team prepared and activated a special crisis management plan that would kick into action should an emergency response be required to prevent disruptions or outages.
- Embracing ICD-10 In Healthcare (09 Feb 2009)
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the final rule adopting ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS as medical data code sets under HIPAA, replacing ICD-9-CM. Now, U.S. healthcare organizations – including government and commercial payers and providers – must prepare to meet the demands of ICD-10.
- Green Data Centre (02 Feb 2009)
- Currently under construction by EDS, an HP company, the Wynyard facility in North East England near Billingham incorporates a number of design considerations that are expected to make it one of the largest and most environmentally friendly data centres in Europe once fully constructed.
- The Right IT Strategies (26 Jan 2009)
- In this interview, Jeff Kelly, senior vice president of EDS' Americas region, shares his thoughts on what it takes to deliver total client value – either as a client's sole technology partner or as the prime IT integrator on a multisupplier account.
- Mobility In Real Time (20 Jan 2009)
- With the explosion of new data available to today's mobile professionals spurred by new applications, processing power and devices, proven results can be traced to one important factor: real-time decision-making. This was the consensus of a distinguished panel of experts who participated in a recent Forbes CEO Breakfast Series event held in Chicago and sponsored by EDS, an HP company.
- EDS Delivering State-of-the-Art System to South Carolina (13 Jan 2009)
- The state of South Carolina awarded EDS a contract in 2007 to deliver a new full-function child support system. Once completed, it will be the most current technology system available and provide the only focused child support application framework on the market.