For release: 05 Nov 2007
Daimler Financial Services Selects EDS to Manage IT Environment
PLANO, Texas and FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – EDS and Daimler Financial Services today announced a three-year agreement for transition and data center hosting services. EDS will relocate and then manage the financial services company’s information technology (IT) environment so that Daimler Financial Services can focus on its Mercedes-Benz Financial and Daimler Truck Financial wholesale, retail and lease core business.
“EDS presented a strong plan to transition our computing environment that is backed by significant automotive financial industry experience and gives us confidence that we’ll meet our timeline,” said Jan Brecht, Vice President of IT for Daimler Financial Services.
Under the agreement, EDS will transition then manage the Daimler Financial Services computing environment, including consolidating and hosting its approximately 150 midrange servers and its mainframe computers and data storage in EDS data centers in Auburn Hills, Mich. and Sacramento, Calif. Daimler Financial Services manages wholesale and retail loans portfolios, hosts Web sites and runs internal systems within this computing environment.
As part of the transition, EDS Agility Alliance partner EMC will provide transformation services supporting the data migration to Daimler Financial Services related to its managed storage services environments. The EDS Agility Alliance is a coalition of companies globally recognized for their quality, products and value to clients. Its mission is to innovate, develop and deliver the EDS Agile Enterprise Platform – EDS’ next-generation global delivery system. Together, EDS and its Agility Alliance partners collaborate to design, build and run a market-leading services platform and develop technology-based services to deliver tangible client results. EDS Agility Alliance partners include Cisco, EMC, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Sun Microsystems and Xerox.
“We will draw from EDS’ combined manufacturing, financial services and IT expertise to complete a smooth transition that meets Daimler Financial Services’ aggressive timeline,” said Darl Davidson, vice president and manufacturing industry leader for EDS. “We are fully committed to manage Daimler Financial Services’ systems in a secure and scalable environment that support its efforts to maintain a leadership position in the vehicle financing industry.”
The contract was signed in August and is reflected in EDS’ third quarter new business signings.
EDS has significant industry-based knowledge in the aerospace & defense, automotive—including the vehicle finance sector—high tech and industrial manufacturing segments, with more than 30 years of experience working with manufacturers. More than 20,000 EDS employees serve over 220 manufacturing clients in 40 countries.
About DCFS USA LLC (Daimler Financial Services Americas)
DCFS USA LLC (Daimler Financial Services Americas) provides brand-specific financing for Mercedes-Benz automotive dealers’ inventories and their retail customers, and conducts business in the United States luxury car market as Mercedes-Benz Financial. In the U.S. trucking industry, Daimler Financial Services Americas (Daimler Truck Financial) finances Daimler commercial vehicle products such as Freightliner, Sterling and Western Star for dealers and their customers in the fleet, vocational, municipal and owner/operator segments. Daimler Financial Services Americas serves as the headquarters for operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, and has approximately 1,600 employees. Daimler Financial Services Americas is a company of the Daimler Financial Services Group, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, which operates in nearly 40 countries with an employee base of close to 6,800. Daimler Financial Services is one of the leading financial services organizations worldwide.
About EDS
EDS is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. EDS founded the information technology outsourcing industry more than 40 years ago. Today, EDS delivers a broad portfolio of information technology and business process outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries and to governments around the world. Learn more at eds.com.
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