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  • EDS virtualises its ANZ Unix server farms

    EDS stands to save “hundreds of millions” by rolling out a massive 10,500-server rationalisation project for its clients in New Zealand and Australia.

  • EDS wins Aussie bank deal worth $689 million

    As part of its new multi-sourcing strategy, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia has signed a five-year information technology and telecommunications master agreement with EDS, valued at A$573 million (NZ$689 million). At the same time, Gen-i has lost some of the niche contracts it had with the bank, including managed mobile voice services, which have gone to Optus.

  • New EDS GM appointed

    EDS has replaced former New Zealand managing director Rick Ellis with Steve Murray, a former EDS staffer who was most recently chief executive of Tainui Holdings. Murray has also worked for Ernst & Young and Ansett.

  • Kraft, EDS sign US$1.7B IT services deal

    Kraft Foods is outsourcing its IT infrastructure — including datacentres, desktop and telco support — to Electronic Data Systems in a seven-year agreement that’s valued at US$1.7 billion.

  • Deloitte consortium wins Kiwi Saver contract

    A consortium headed by Deloitte is expected to win a multi-million-dollar contract at Inland Revenue to provide technology for the Government’s Kiwi Saver scheme. The other consortium partners are SAP and EDS.

  • EDS settles case with UK government

    EDS has agreed to pay £71.25 million (NZ$177 million) to the British government’s tax agency after trouble with an IT system that tracked tax credits.

  • EDS cuts staff in Australia

    Multinational outsourcer EDS has retrenched 106 applications development staff from its Australian operation, however the company is vehemently denying the redundancies are payback for failed wage negotiations late last month.

  • Pokies deal sours

    A subcontract between the company that won the Department of Internal Affairs’ $35 million gaming machine monitoring contract and EDS has fallen over.

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