EDS in the UK: Regional Overview

EDS is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to help its clients improve their performance. EDS’ core portfolio comprises information technology (IT), applications and business process services, as well as IT transformation services.

What we do

As the CIO’s trusted adviser, EDS provides the best solutions for executives to maximise return on their IT investments. Our deep industry knowledge enables clients to address issues specific to their businesses, and our unmatched global infrastructure provides the capacity and capability to help ensure we serve our clients extraordinarily well.

How we do it

Our portfolio is built around innovative offerings in application maintenance and development, business process outsourcing, and infrastructure, including desktop services, hosting, storage, and networking. These services are delivered on the EDS Agile Enterprise Platform, our next generation global delivery system that allows our clients to respond quickly to changing market dynamics and increase their competitiveness.

EDS in the UK

EDS was established in the UK in 1984, we now employ more than 16,500 people at more than 200 locations nationwide and serve more than 120 clients across most industry sectors.

Commercial Operations

In the UK, EDS’ commercial operations centre around financial services, retail, manufacturing, consumer industries and retail, and the energy and utilities industries. Powering major UK financial institutions EDS processes thousands of financial transactions a day for firms such as Lloyds TSB, Liverpool Victoria and Royal Bank of Scotland.

» As one of the leading IT Services providers to the UK’s energy and utility industry, EDS helps companies such as BP and Electralink by optimizing product portfolios, improving productivity and accelerating speed to market.

» EDS and the Transys consortium have harnessed cutting edge technology to deliver Transport for London’s Oyster Card - a service that has won multiple awards from a diverse range of independent organisations.

Other commercial clients include:

» Abbey, BP, British Airways, Rolls-Royce, Thorntons

Public Sector Operations

EDS has almost 40 years of government experience and is the biggest supplier of IT services to the UK government. We support governments across the world, helping them deliver effective and efficient services to their citizens.

» As prime contractor in the ATLAS consortium EDS will be central to the successful delivery of the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) (DII(f)) for the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD). DII(f) is a major contract running over 10 years and will replace numerous individual information systems throughout the MoD with a single more efficient information infrastructure.

» The UK Department for Work and Pensions is one of EDS’ largest accounts. In the DWP Jobcentre Plus sites EDS have made 400,000 job vacancies available online at specially developed Jobpoint kiosks. These allow jobseekers to quickly find suitable job opportunities throughout the country, a major improvement on the traditional system of cards and notice boards displaying only local vacancies.

» EDS’ work with HM Prisons and the Court Service includes the successful delivery of the XHIBIT system of evidence management for the Crown Courts and the National Offender Management Information System (NOMIS) which will provide a single end to end view of an offender across the whole UK justice space.

Other public sector clients include:

» The Metropolitan Police, the Department for Constitutional Affairs,the Royal Mail.