D.C. He received a bachelor of business administration degree in accounting from the University of Texas in 1968. EDS is an information services company that has been helping its customers improve business performance through the application of information technology for over 30 years. EDS has more than 95,000 employees in over 40 countries and serves more than 8,000 customers. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas. EDS serves all major industries, such as communications, energy, finance, health care, government, manufacturing, and transportation.
Customers range from small businesses to the world's largest corporations and governments.
Perhaps the value of EDS is best summed up in the book, Competing for the Future, by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad. Enhancing customers' productivity from improving quality to gaining market share is the most important service EDS offers.