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April 02, 2008
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EDS SIGNS $1 BILLION DEAL WITH ROYAL DUTCH SHELL...EDS has signed a five-year, US$1 billion IT Master Services Agreement (MSA) with Royal Dutch Shell (Shell). Today's agreement with EDS is one of three IT outsourcing agreements between Shell and three key suppliers, (AT&T and a Deutsche Telekom unit won five-year contracts worth around $1.6 billion each to provide communications and technology services)and is expected to deliver Shell a substantial business improvement over the five year initial term of the contract. Under the terms of the agreement, EDS will manage Shell's end-user computing services including desktop, service desk, on-site services, back-up and disaster recovery, mobile information protection and managed messaging services, for 150,000 users in over 100 countries across its global operations. To reduce management complexity for Shell, EDS will also act as operational integrator, collaborating closely with Shell’s other key IT suppliers.
Posted by jbowles at April 2, 2008 07:32 PM
