Workplace Server Management Services: Business Case
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To remain competitive, you must reduce information technology (IT) costs, become more efficient, improve agility and increase productivity. You can't achieve these goals if your time and money are spent keeping an inefficient, complex server environment up, running and compliant.
Your workplace servers are costly and cumbersome to manage. Plus, it's likely you're using only 20 percent of your server capacity and not optimizing its value. Security threats and regulatory compliance issues – especially in the areas of energy consumption – are only adding to the complexity.
The answer: transition your Windows infrastructure server environment to an EDS workplace server management solution that enhances performance, reduces maintenance costs and maximizes your investment. And because we can deploy servers and tools quickly – and efficiently – you're better able to keep up with changing business and regulatory requirements.
By simplifying and automating your server environment, you can:
- Improve server reliability for greater cost efficiencies
- Enhance data availability, while reducing risk, vulnerabilities and downtime
- Increase productivity through optimized performance
- Divert long-term capital and operational savings that would be spent maintaining inefficient servers to your core business initiatives
- Adapt quickly to market and regulatory changes
Our Workplace Server Management Services position your company to be more agile, efficient, productive and competitive. Consolidating and streamlining your Microsoft-based server environments means lower management costs. And with a flexible solution that's continuously improved, you can manage, monitor and expand your workplace computing resources more effectively.
EDS Can Help You Achieve Your Business Goals
EDS works with you to understand your business situation, including your goals, strategy and competitive positioning. Then we provide an integrated solution from our comprehensive portfolio of workplace server management capabilities that aligns directly to your business needs. Our solution delivers the tools to transform your IT environment into a highly responsive, highly scalable asset. Whether your business drivers are service excellence, end-to-end ownership, increased uptime and server utilization, reduced costs or managing global server complexity, we can help.
Simplify Your Server Management
Fast growth is great – except when it leads to an unwieldy number of servers in your distributed environment. Our integrated solution consolidates, unifies and, ultimately, simplifies the management and operation of your workplace server environment. Ongoing management combines efficient, proven ITIL® processes; experienced personnel; and enabling technologies deployed at one of our service management facilities, within your own data center or at remote sites.
The result: flexible and scalable services, industry-leading server environments, and standardized tools and processes that readily adapt as your business needs change. All available and delivered worldwide.
No matter how complex your environment, EDS simplifies management and optimizes server performance. From managing your file, print, messaging and networking services to building and managing your active directory, we have the tools and experience to help you succeed.
A Green Solution
Inefficient server environments consume power and release large volumes of carbon emissions, in violation of government regulations for containing or cutting these emissions. An EDS workplace server management solution reduces energy requirements by modernizing your infrastructure and reconfiguring your legacy systems to a more eco-friendly and cost-efficient environment.
A Flexible Solution, Customized To Your Needs
Your goal is to increase your agility. To that end, EDS designs the most appropriate server environment taking into account your:
- Business and technological drivers
- Requirements
- Market
- Geographic distribution
- Total cost of ownership objectives
We meet your objectives by providing:
- A standardized, leveraged and appropriate mix of onshore, near-shore and offshore outsourcing that maximizes returns and benefits
- Optimal management of your existing legacy Windows servers regardless of location
A Workplace Server Management Solution That Delivers
Take advantage of our:
- High-value IT services
- Fast access to the right technologies
- Ability to leverage your current IT investment
- Reliable and secure 24/7 management
- Regulatory compliance strategies
Gain peace of mind knowing your server environment is secure, optimized and reliable. For more information about what EDS can do for you, submit a business inquiry.

Molson Coors
EDS is behind the continued success of Molson Coors. Our Workplace Server Management Services simplified the management and operation of the brewer’s servers and provided optimal information technology (IT) management despite a complex merged environment.