Industry Business Issues
- 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.
- 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.
- Achieving Aggressive Growth in Financial Services
- Global financial institutions face an increasingly complex market – one where profitability of existing products is eroding. Market events – including globalization, a final wave of consolidation, regulatory changes and technology breakthroughs – are forcing financial institutions to shed the transactional orientation of the past and focus on improving the efficiency and customer orientation of their operations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Strategies for Achieving Aggressive Growth in Financial Services
- To meet shareholder expectations, financial services companies are projecting double-digit growth. Global institutions have committed to increasing revenue 10 percent and profits 11 percent per year. However, high inflation rates and low gross domestic profit in almost every market make this an almost unattainable goal.
- 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.