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EDS, an HP Company: New Zealand's Market Leader In IT Services
As the IT outsourcing market leader, EDS offers a full portfolio of information technology (IT) infrastructure, applications, and business process outsourcing (BPO) services. EDS is also proud to be New Zealand's largest IT employer with staff located throughout the country.
Our technology services work behind the scenes to touch the lives of every New Zealander. Benefit payments, banking, immigration, taxes, telecommunications and the dairy industry are all supported by EDS, an HP company.
What We Do
As a trusted adviser and ally, EDS provides the best solutions for executives to maximise return on their IT investments. Our deep industry knowledge enables clients to address issues specific to their businesses, and our unmatched global infrastructure provides the capacity and capability to help ensure we serve our clients extraordinarily well.
How We Do It
Our portfolio is built around innovative offerings in application development and maintenance, BPO, and infrastructure – including desktop services, hosting, storage and networking delivered by leading-edge methods.
EDS works with best-of-breed partners under the EDS Agility Alliance to deliver our services on the EDS Agile Enterprise Platform. We use our next-generation global delivery system and EDS Best Shore® strategy to ensure high-quality, cost-competitive services are provided from the optimal mix of onshore, nearshore and offshore locations. This enables our clients to respond quickly to changing market dynamics and increase their competitiveness.
EDS runs a large-scale applications business, employing Project Management Professional (PMP) certified project managers, International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) certified testers and International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) certified business analysts.
The New Zealand applications business operates an EDS certified Centre of Excellence for Data Engineering and a Sun certified Java Centre of Excellence. It also has significant expertise in .NET, Java and SAP testing, and legacy migration.
EDS New Zealand is accredited to handle work for EDS clients based offshore and operates a state-of-the-art help desk based in Auckland. The company also runs one of New Zealand's largest print and mail distribution centres located in Christchurch.
Who We Work With
In New Zealand, EDS is proud to partner with businesses across many industries including:
Communications, Media & Entertainment
Telecom is the country's largest publicly listed company and dominant player in the sector. In 1999, it awarded EDS New Zealand's largest ever information technology outsourcing (ITO) contract. Today, EDS remains as the key provider of Telecom's IT infrastructure and information system services.
Commercial and Global
The world's largest dairy exporter, Fonterra, contracted EDS in 2003 to provide its IT infrastructure outsourcing. The global contract covered more than 300 offices in over 30 countries and was later extended through to 2015.
Government and Defence
EDS' Government activities in New Zealand include:
- Ministry of Social Development: Managing mission critical services for the ministry including over one million beneficiary payments each fortnight and debt services
- Inland Revenue Department: Strategic planning partner, storage, managing mainframes and part of the KiwiSaver delivery consortium
- Department of Labour: Managing IT infrastructure, applications and global immigration systems
- Land Information New Zealand: Managing corporate systems and IT infrastructure for the Land Online service
- Ministry of Justice: Providing print, mail and address validation services for a range of correspondence relating to the notification and collection of fines
- New Zealand Police: A full range of IT services including applications and infrastructure support and development services
Financial Services
EDS has played a long-standing role in the New Zealand banking sector, providing services to all of the major banks individually and to the industry as a whole.
EDS hosts, supports and enhances many critical banking systems, and processes the vast majority of New Zealand's cheques and remittances. Banks also use EDS' document processing services to create and distribute customer financial statements and other communications. Through Interchange and Settlement, EDS manages the clearing and settlement function for the sector ensuring that each day every payment reaches its destination.
Our People
EDS is an active corporate citizen. Once a year throughout the month of October, staff take part in EDS Global Volunteer Day, where employees voluntarily assist charities and community groups.
Go For Green Program
In 2007, EDS Australia and New Zealand made a commitment to reduce carbon use by 25 percent by 2010 in a wide-ranging program that will affect most areas of its business. EDS' “Go for Green” program looks at three key areas within the organisation:
- Providing mechanisms to address employee carbon usage
- Developing internal initiatives to increase productivity and efficiency while reducing EDS' ecological footprint
- Further developing service offerings that will allow EDS' customers to reduce their impact on the environment
Offices
- Auckland
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Smales Farm Technology Park
74 Taharoto Road
P.O. Box 92096
Takapuna, Auckland - phone: 64 9 487 2000
- Hamilton
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10 Aztec Place
Hamilton - Upper Hutt
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32 Lane Street
Upper Hutt - Christchurch
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10 Sir William Pickering Dve.
Burnside, P.O. Box 14166
Christchurch - phone: 64 3 358 9099
- Dunedin
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535–543 Andersons Bay Rd.
South Dunedin - phone: 64 3 455 4155