HP Enterprise Services, is a global business and technology services company, previously known as Electronic Data Systems (EDS), headquartered in Plano, Texas that defined the outsourcing business when it was established in 1962 by Ross Perot. General Motors acquired the company in 1984, spun it off again as an independent company in 1996, and became an EDS client.
As of 23 September 2009, EDS began going to market as HP Enterprise Services, a na...
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HP Enterprise Services, is a global business and technology services company, previously known as Electronic Data Systems (EDS), headquartered in Plano, Texas that defined the outsourcing business when it was established in 1962 by Ross Perot. General Motors acquired the company in 1984, spun it off again as an independent company in 1996, and became an EDS client.
As of 23 September 2009, EDS began going to market as HP Enterprise Services, a name change which emphasizes the business unit’s global role as the enterprise technology services component of the HP portfolio. The move supports a year-long effort to transfer to HP the strong services brand equity that EDS has built over nearly 50 years and to place the global power and recognition of the HP brand behind its robust technology services portfolio.
The brand update came one year after HP announced the acquisition of EDS and was a critical milestone as the integration of EDS into HP neared completion.
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