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Technology is so pervasive and has advanced so rapidly that it's changed every aspect of how you do business; and it impacts your growth, productivity, quality levels and customer service. It's a consumer-driven, global marketplace so your company has to be easy to do business with; and that means you need a cost-efficient, seamless end-to-end supply chain that can respond to changes quickly. To keep ahead of your competition, your enterprise must be agile and your operations must become streamlined, utilizing emerging event-driven technologies. With today's accelerating business cycles, applications are becoming legacy within 18-24 months, and the legacy systems you have now present a barrier to your ability to compete effectively.
EDS: Vendor Profile Series for SOA Service Offerings
EDS launched a major investment program for service-oriented architecture (SOA), supported by the vision to develop a cohesive SOA approach that builds on the firm’s core competence, its Agile Application Architecture, and relationships with the Agility Alliance partners.
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To overcome these challenges you need an ally that can modernize your infrastructure and applications so you can become more agile and keep pace with the changing marketplace. And that means your technology has to be aligned with your business processes. The solution is not about replacing your legacy technology; it's about end-to-end integration and consolidation over time. The key is to leverage your current legacy information technology (IT) investments as you transition to the new environment. You can choose to simplify and renovate applications, which will change the longevity, resiliency and adaptability of your legacy systems. Renewed legacy systems and newly developed functionality can then be integrated to work together in new ways through service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA enables technology to be more responsive to the demands of the business because flexible, standards-based components can be developed, combined and deployed rapidly.
EDS: Top Rating In Applications Services In Europe
In a crowded IT services marketplace, it can be difficult for customers to distinguish between different applications outsourcing vendors. In this report, Ovum awards “top-right” rating to EDS as strong against the two key applications outsourcing buying criteria in Europe: strategy and execution. Read more.
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But modernization is not just about the applications. Modern applications require a modern infrastructure in order to provide the “always on,” secure and flexible operations framework your enterprise needs. Modernizing only the applications will lead to high overall costs and negatively impact performance and quality. The applications and the infrastructure are inseparable when it comes to quality, availability and agility of the business processes. The entire platform must support agile business processes.
With EDS you are assured that your solutions will be EDS Designed for Run™ designed with operational costs and ongoing management in mind, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership. Agile solutions also have to be rigorously tested in an environment that mimics production and 24-hour operations to ensure it runs efficiently for the long term. Disciplined testing practices mitigate the necessary risks of modernization and improve enterprise solutions. In contrast, a poorly designed, built and tested implementation could have lots of hidden costs and unnecessary risk.
Balancing costs, quality and speed is your goal – achieving that balance is our strength. With our vast experience in complex environments and legacy systems along with industry-specific knowledge, we know what works. And we have the frameworks, processes and resources to design the modernization programs and individual integration projects that you need for now and in the future. We've done it for many other successful companies, and we can do it for you.
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EDS’ Proven Methodologies For Developing and Delivering Holistic IT Solutions
EDS Designed for Run™
Based on 45 years of infrastructure awareness and operational perspective, EDS empowers enterprises to plan, build and run the IT systems they need to increase productivity, improve reliability and encourage cost savings.
Guiding Principles:
- EDS Plan for Agility™
- EDS Build for Quality™
- EDS Manage for Performance™
Applications Development Services
Have feature-rich applications built that cost you less to operate and maintain.
Applications Modernization Services
Modernize your infrastructure so it's simpler, less costly to manage and more responsive.
Applications Management Services
Gain insight and better control of your applications. Have us manage and maintain them.