EDS Forms EDS Agility Alliance to Drive Innovation and Cost Leadership

Strategic Insights -

EDS has announced the formation of the EDS Agility Alliance, a federation of global technology leaders, to drive industry innovation and cost leadership through the development, selling, delivery, and support of joint clients on the EDS Agile Enterprise Platform. The initial members of the EDS Agility Alliance are Cisco, Dell, EMC, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Xerox, combining the collective resources of companies with over $150 billion in total annual revenue and $13.6 billion in combined R&D spend.

Key Takeaways:

  • The EDS Agility Alliance brings together the collective market presence and leadership of the member companies to accelerate the achievement of EDS' vision and deliver the value of the EDS Agile Enterprise Platform.
  • The alliance combines the resources of companies with over $150 billion in total annual revenue and $13.6 billion in combined R&D spend.
  • The EDS Agile Enterprise Platform is a global service delivery system that provides a flexible technology foundation to help clients respond quickly to changing market dynamics and increase their competitiveness.
  • The EDS Agility Alliance members are collaborating to synchronize and align networking, infrastructure, application, and business process architectures into the EDS Agile Enterprise Platform.
  • EDS is building an initial joint development center in Plano, Texas, to be replicated in other global locations, with more than 1,000 EDS Agility Alliance dedicated technologists working with field engineers around the globe.
  • Customers are benefiting from the joint efforts, including EDS and Cisco winning new business with the Bank of America to integrate the communications infrastructure for the recently acquired FleetBoston Financial into Bank of America's state-of-the-art voice and data network.
  • Partners are working aggressively to train and certify EDS personnel in their products, capabilities, and competitive positioning.

Statistics:

  • Total annual revenue of the EDS Agility Alliance member companies: over $150 billion ($150,000,000,000)
  • Combined R&D spend of the EDS Agility Alliance member companies: $13.6 billion ($13,600,000,000)
  • Number of EDS Agility Alliance dedicated technologists working with field engineers: over 1,000

Sources:

  • EDS news release: "EDS Forms EDS Agility Alliance to Drive Innovation and Cost Leadership" (no date provided)
  • Gartner Symposium ITxpo: "EDS Forms EDS Agility Alliance" (no date provided)
  • "Leadership in the 21st Century Economy: The EDS Story" (no date provided)