NEW YORK and PLANO, Texas, May 5, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) LLP today announced they are teaming with EDS to leverage PwC's business advisory services and EDS's enterprise-wide SAP application and technology services to help organizations realize greater efficiencies and increase business performance. PwC's advisory professionals will jointly work with EDS to help clients design, manage and execute lasting change through integrating leading practices and processes with SAP technologies to support business flexibility in today's dynamic economy.
"SAP users today are seeking to drive improved business performance through new implementations, upgrades or consolidations, and a critical component of success will be their ability to seamlessly connect business processes with technology to help drive transformational change," said Juan Pujadas, U.S. Advisory leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers. "EDS' Designed For Run(tm) methodologies and tools for SAP, as well as their vast experience in managing large enterprise clients will enable us to help organizations realize greater value, through a focus on the architecture, processes, security, controls, and organizational structures that support business agility."
Through this teaming relationship, PricewaterhouseCoopers will deliver to mutual clients business advisory services focused on performance improvement, industry operations, process re-design, governance, risk and compliance; human capital management; and change management. As a leading applications management provider, EDS executes large scale, enterprise-wide SAP implementations, enhanced architecture to achieve SOA, system upgrades or consolidations, reusable solutions for SAP GRC and SAP EPM/BI systems and modern applications management by leveraging its end to end integration of technology, application knowledge, industry frameworks and global delivery model.
"Our joint efforts with PwC will enable our mutual clients to leverage holistic implementation of EDS' thought leadership across the enterprise to deliver business-aligned results in a high performance computing environment and enable the benefits of integrating proven processes, methodologies and business expertise," said Charlie Feld, EVP EDS Applications. "Together, we can help our clients align their IT strategy to the business context, to deliver benefits across all layers of the IT technology stack."
About EDS
EDS (NYSE:EDS) is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. EDS founded the information technology outsourcing industry more than 45 years ago. Today, EDS delivers a broad portfolio of information technology and business process outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries and to governments around the world. Learn more at eds.com.
About PricewaterhouseCoopers' Advisory Practice
PricewaterhouseCoopers' business advisory professionals provide clients with the confidence to succeed by helping them anticipate, create and manage change. Whether clients are proactively implementing change or reacting to an unplanned event, we leverage our Firm's resources, deep industry experience, and functional acumen across the areas of operations, finance, organizational strategy and structure, process improvement, human resources optimization, technology integration and implementation, risk mitigation and crisis management to help organizations effect sustainable change. PwC has recently initiated marketplace alliances with SAP and Oracle, among others, and maintains a teaming program with selected Global System Integrators.
About PricewaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwc.com) provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders. More than 146,000 people in 150 countries across our network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice.
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