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Comment The Rolls-Royce deal is said to add business integration and work-share collaboration to EDS's existing responsibility at Rolls-Royce for IT infrastructure, networks, systems, applications and end-user support. [16 Jul 2000]
EDS presses NHS for loss of contract
News EDS turned to the press, the Financial Times of course, to turn the screws on the NHS when it abruptly cancelled a 10-year £90m contract to provide email services last week. EDS claimed to be going for... [08 Mar 2004]
EDS, Cubic get new run at TfL's Oyster scheme
News Transport for London (TfL) has sealed a new deal with suppliers Cubic Transportation Systems and EDS for the "future management and development of the Oyster card system and other ticketing services". [19 Nov 2008]
EDS frozen out as Schlumberger scoops up Sema
News An unconfirmed report yesterday in UK newspaper the Observer suggested that EDS was prepared to make an offer. However, Sema and Schlumberger confirmed this morning that they have signed a deal which is expected to be... [12 Feb 2001]
EDS pulls out of 'largest ever' outsourcing deal
News EDS has pulled out of its planned contract with Procter and Gamble (P&G). EDS claimed the contract was unacceptably risky because P&G's need for IT support services would have been too expensive... [02 Jul 2002]
EDS counts cost of WorldCom woes
News EDS stands to lose three per cent of its annual revenue if a $12bn outsourcing contract with WorldCom is hit by the telco's accounting debacle. Despite reassurances from EDS last week that it had not... [01 Jul 2002]
EDS scraps ecommerce consultancy plans
News Dick Brown, CEO at EDS, said the two companies will continue to work together but ruled out integration, claiming such a venture posed too many financial risks. The services firm announced plans last October to pool... [20 Feb 2001]
EDS pledges £600m savings in MoD personnel deal
News EDS has extended a personnel deal it has with the armed forces in the UK, an announcement that may bode well for the upcoming Ministry of Defence £4bn Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) contract. [28 Oct 2004]
EDS buys Loudcloud
News US IT services giant EDS has paid $63.5m for Loudcloud which was started by Netscape pioneer Marc Andreesen. EDS is hoping to further strengthen its existing data hosting business with its plans to... [17 Jun 2002]
EDS gets A$1bn deal down under
News EDS, provider of business and technology services, has signed a deal with Australian bank Westpac under which EDS will manage the organisation's mortgage processing operations. Over a 10-year contract... [28 Sep 2001]
EDS pays $135m to buy itself out of duff IT contract
News EDS has paid $135m to pull out of a loss-making IT outsourcing contract, believed to be with US firm Dow Chemical. The termination, effective from 1 August, was revealed in EDS's results for the quarter... [29 Jul 2004]
EDS confirms action against fraudulent employees
News EDS has taken action against nine employees at the centre of a fraud scandal that cost the states of New York, Massachusetts and Delaware almost $40m. The company has confirmed that it has sacked or taken legal action... [21 Dec 1999]
EDS in line for 'largest outsourcing deal of all time'
News Procter and Gamble (P&G) is considering outsourcing its computer systems to EDS. The WSJ quoted a source inside the company who claimed P&G is planning to outsource 80 per cent of all of its back end systems,... [14 Jun 2002]
EDS claims .Net first for online banking
News EDS claims that it has built the world's first internet banking solution using .Net development architecture. According to Microsoft, the EDS team took just under four months to complete the project.... [15 Aug 2002]
EDS government contract '£50m over budget'
News EDS is at the centre of another UK government contract controversy, as it's emerged the Child Support Agency's (CSA) new computer system is running £50m over budget and at least a year late. It was developed by Affinity,... [13 Aug 2002]