EDS ditches PwC Consulting
by Volker Weber
EDS Corp has confirmed that it has terminated its global SAP services alliance with management consultancy PwC Consulting LLC following its $3.5bn acquisition by IBM Corp.
Plano, Texas-based EDS pulled the plug on the deal, which it set up with New York-based PwC Consulting last December to provide systems integration and consulting services around SAP tools to their joint customer base. The partnership brought together a combined total of 10,000 SAP specialists with skills in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing and support services.
The move follows Hewlett-Packard Co, which ended its global alliance with PwC Consulting last month, where the two companies had been jointly working on supply chain and procurement tools and services, as well as IT services to the airline industry since July 2001.
