Alliance Overview

Since the early 1980's, Sun and EDS have been working together to provide systems solutions to meet the business goals of our clients. So it was a natural fit for Sun to become a key member of the EDS Agility Alliance. The EDS Agility Alliance is a federation of market-leading infrastructure, application, and business process providers chartered with driving industry leading innovation and cost leadership through the development and delivery of EDS' Agile Enterprise Platform. Sun provides the standard compute and hosting environment hardware, software and database infrastructure enabling utility-based computing for this platform.

Our unique partnership combines technological innovation with service excellence to deliver maximum value through an unparalleled array of proven products and optimized services. From implementation to day-to-day operations, EDS and Sun provide end-to-end services that scale globally using industry-leading technology with reduced risk and lower capital costs. Sun's platform - and Java technology - combined with EDS' experience in systems implementation, integration and consulting - provide the best leading technologies, such as utility-based IT solutions, Web site management, Web service applications, data center outsourcing and application hosting, to name a few.

Working as a team, EDS and Sun are able to bring expanded global experience, thought leadership and industry know-how to any client relationship, yielding several key benefits:

• Business agility.
  EDS and Sun take the conversation beyond IT with solutions that can enable corporations to respond to shifting market conditions and customer demands quickly and efficiently.


• Efficiencies in IT.
  Lower total cost of ownership through the use of virtualization technologies and utility computing solutions.


• Innovation.
  Our business-focused technology solutions can help turn new ideas into new markets, new revenue streams and more efficient internal processes and yield better communication with customers. To do this, your business partners need to understand your customers and your business goals as well as you do.