All eyes on HP-EDS services integration plan

As EDS been acquired by HP months back, all the IT folks, All eyes on HP-EDS services integration plan. HP recently announce it will lay off 26,900 staffs worldwide to provide integration of the technology consulting & services group to be run on EDS which is the No 2 ranking in IT outsourcing market.

The integration will be success or not, will still be a long way to go. As the culture and working style is the most important part to make these both giant to be success integrated. Many of you may know the way EDS and HP are dealing in term of products, services as well as customer experience, is really a big gap within each others. EDS are not bias to specify products which serve the customer with flexible products. If HP does push hard on their own products with the outsource service, they might make the thing worst after the emerging. Not very customer will go with HP. IBM and EDS is the best example to show their success in Service market for IT. they provide various of products with different brand to satisfy the customer need. HP should re-think whether they should push hard on their self brand with the outsource and services program.