EDS selected to manage Daimler’s IT environment

by PegNews wire

PLANO — EDS and Daimler Financial Services today announced a three-year agreement for transition and data center hosting services. EDS will relocate and then manage the financial services company's information technology (IT) environment, allegedly so that Daimler Financial Services can focus on its Mercedes-Benz Financial and Daimler Truck Financial wholesale, retail and lease core business.

"EDS presented a strong plan to transition our computing environment that is backed by significant automotive financial industry experience and gives us confidence that we'll meet our timeline," said Jan Brecht, Vice President of IT for Daimler Financial Services.

Under the agreement, EDS will transition then manage the Daimler Financial Services computing environment, including consolidating and hosting its approximately 150 midrange servers and its mainframe computers and data storage in EDS data centers in Auburn Hills, Mich. and Sacramento, Calif. Daimler Financial Services manages wholesale and retail loans portfolios, hosts Web sites and runs internal systems within this computing environment.

Source: EDS