Industry Business Issues

By Industry

Customer Intimacy in the Communications Industry: Good customer experiences mean loyal consumers. In this industry, knowing your customers and delivering a powerful experience are critical components of your business strategy – especially when it can cost up to 10 times more to acquire a new customer than retain an existing one.

Transform Business, Reduce Costs and Grow Revenue in the Communications Industry: Every communications services provider (CSP) today has the same basic strategic agenda: Transform the enterprise to build top-line growth and manage costs. Several complex factors are driving that agenda.

Maximize Profitability in Consumer Packaged Goods: Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are searching for new and innovative ways to grow top-line sales in a global marketplace that seems to be more competitive every day. Like every business, they must find a way to offset the rising costs of raw materials as well as meet ever-changing consumer needs.

Advanced Metering Infrastructure Holds Potential For Enterprise Growth In Utililty Industry: Utility companies are poised at the brink of opportunity. Technological advancements are opening ways to streamline operations, find new solutions to old problems. Choosing the right solutions can be a challenge.

Challenges In the Insurance Industry: Challenges are mounting for insurers. Increased pressure for profitability translates into a hard look at cost reduction and top-line revenue growth. Profitability is linked to the ability to accurately assess risk and manage customer relationships over time to achieve financial success.

Security and Privacy for Financial Institutions: As networks and partnerships become more complex, financial institutions recognize that it is increasingly difficult and expensive to provide the same level of protection as was available with simple in-house networks. It is difficult to attract and retain the subject-matter experts needed to protect today’s complex environments. Capital expenditures required for monitoring tools and platform are also difficult to sustain.

Achieving Aggressive Growth In Financial Services: Global financial institutions are forced to improve efficiencies and customer orientation of their operations because of globalization, consolidation, regulatory changes and technology breakthroughs.

Drive Increased Military Effectiveness Through Departmental Transformation: Defense departments worldwide are seeking to deliver greater military capability at lower costs. Agencies, however, face challenges in enhancing and transforming military operations.

Justice Services: HP helps public safety, courts and offender management/corrections organizations save lives, protect citizens, and provide faster and better services. EDS services help agencies improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

Achieving Sustainability in the Aerospace and Defense Marketplace: Manufacturers want to speed new products to market while reducing development costs. While solid product economics and satisfied customers are essential, with the average commercial airplane in use for more than 20 years, the industry needs to focus on developing products that sustain and extend the product’s life. The challenge for A&D manufacturers is to create products that last longer without increasing total cost of ownership.

Healthcare Transformation: To achieve a Healthcare transformation, the HP 360-Degree Healthcare Continuum is a framework to organize and connect solutions and assets within the healthcare industry

Drive Innovation, Quality and Growth with Product Lifecycle Management: By taking advantage of the latest product lifecycle management techniques, manufacturers are finding opportunities to not only decrease their time to market but also increase revenue and profit.

Enhance Innovation, Quality and Growth With Product Lifecycle Management In Aerospace and Defense: If you’re struggling with the challenges causing slowdowns in the aerospace and defense industry, EDS can help you develop a new strategy to improve internal and external collaboration, increase profit margins and implement efficient processes.

Achieve An Agile, Integrated Information and Communication Foundation In Freight, Logistics & Rail: For transportation companies to thrive, the time to start transforming today’s logistics IT foundation is now. EDS can help you evolve your enterprise, expand market share and collaborate with customers, vendors and partners, no matter where they are.