Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS) is a global technological services company that was acquired by Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). Forty years ago, Ross Perot founded EDS and, in doing so, created the information technology outsourcing industry. Today, EDS offers a range of IT and business process outsourcing services to clients in fields as diverse as Healthcare , financial services, manufacturing, and government. For example, EDS helps businesses process credit card transactions, manages 65,000 servers around the world, and provides technical support for 3 million desktop computers. EDS also runs both the technology and staffing for Human Resources departments for 400 organizations in the western hemisphere, including payroll services and employee relations. Headquartered in Plano, TX, the company has approximately 131,000 employees located in the U.S. and around the world.

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