In 2003, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) acquired its software business and Storage Technology acquired its services business.
Jeff Wacker, corporate futurist for Texas-based Electronic Data Systems (EDS), lectures all over the country about the evolution of American business.
Hewlett-Packard launched its biggest acquisition since its 2002 takeover of Compaq, when it agreed to buy Electronic Data Systems .
It was a humiliating turn for Electronic Data Systems, the Plano, Tex. giant founded in 1962 by tough-talking Navy veteran H.
It was a humiliating turn for Electronic Data Systems, the Plano, Texas giant founded in 1962 by tough-talking Navy veteran H.
In a statement released Monday, Hewlett-Packard acknowledged it is in "advanced discussions" with Electronic Data Systems about a possible business combination.
The original tracking stock was an "E" class of share that General Motors issued in 1984 to take over Electronic Data Systems.
People who scoff about working virtually remind me of those who laughed at Electronic Data Systems when Ross Perot started talking about outsourcing in 1962.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped up its probe of Electronic Data Systems Corp. to a formal investigation, the computer services company said on Friday.
Go even further back and Ross Perot, founder of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems, unsuccessfully ran for U.S. president as a third-party candidate in 1992 and 1996.
Brown knew Electronic Data Systems Corp. had plenty of problems when he started his new job in January as the first outsider ever to run the outsourcing giant.
The company also recently expanded its partnership with Electronic Data Systems (nyse: EDS - news - people ) to compete more effectively in the services area.
There was massive dissatisfaction among new users who had been forced to abandon the legacy networks they were accustomed to, and Electronic Data Systems made some major missteps in implementing the new system.
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People familiar with the matter say IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) was also bidding on the business, as was Electronic Data Systems (nyse: EDS - news - people ).
If Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive MarkHurdMark Hurd manages to grab technology services giant Electronic Data Systems the most interesting part won't be what the deal does for Hewlett-Packard, but what it will do to some of the Palo Alto, Calif.
The irony of this approach was that, like the original Electronic Data Systems contract, it embodied fashionable ideas at the time it was first formulated, but now that the Navy is ready to actually implement those ideas they look a bit outdated.
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That's also bad news for consultant businesses like Electronic Data Systems (nyse: EDS - news - people ) and Accenture (nyse: ACN - news - people ), which aren't used to this kind of price pressure.
Electronic Data Systems ( EDS - news - people ) and other large information technology services suppliers listened to their customers tell them why they liked their proprietary implementation methods, and why they liked having local people with expertise service their accounts.
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Besides providing food service and groundskeeping for the 900, 000 square meters of lawn space at the headquarters of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in Plano, Texas, Aramark also maintains a herd of buffalo and longhorn steers there--part of the landscape since Ross Perot founded the company in 1962.
TimeWarner 's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) AOL unit, Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ), Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and Electronic Data Systems (nyse: EDS - news - people ) all moved their Spanish-speaking call centers to Argentina, according to Jones Lang LaSalle.
Reynolds Tobacco (nyse: RJR - news - people ), Caterpillar (nyse: CAT - news - people ), Dow Chemical (nyse: DOW - news - people ), Cooper Industries (nyse: CBE - news - people ), Wells Fargo (nyse: WFC - news - people ) and Electronic Data Systems (nyse: EDS - news - people ), claims that more than two-thirds of existing plans at the biggest U.S. companies would flunk the new tests.
These data will be posted to the web, instantly enriching the data that came from traditional surveillance systems and electronic medical records.
Critical data was lost during electronic transfer of United passenger information to Continental computer systems, leading to lost reservations, long phone wait times, late and cancelled flights and angry customers.
With less than two years to go before penalties kick in from the federal government for hospitals that are not using electronic health records, new data shows just 1.8 percent have operational systems.
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Parkland was completing its implementation of electronic health records from Epic Systems, which allowed him to directly extract patient data.
During a stint at SunGuard Data Systems in the late 1990s he helped develop Brut, an early electronic communications network, or ECN, that allowed traders to bypass established exchanges and match their buy and sell orders online.
The challenges to maintaining the privacy of confidential patient data continue to grow as more and more of this information is being entered into new electronic systems, as mandated by government regulations.
Among the picks the fund still holds are Concord EFS, which processes electronic transactions, and NCR, which makes bank teller machines, cash registers and computer systems for data warehouses (see story, p. 70).
It is equipped with advanced electronic, electro-optic, infrared and laser system technologies, as well as secure radio systems with data links and munitions capacity for 130 different types of weapons configurations.
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Operations people, such as the CTO for electronic equity order flow or the operations director for fixed income, equities or market data, will want to monitor systems in real-time.
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