Meanwhile, a spokesman for EDS customer Shell said it had already received full assurances over the merger. Shell is in the process of transferring 3,200 IT jobs to a number of outsourcing partners, including EDS. The spokesman confirmed that "we will continue with the timely transfer of services and personnel from Shell to EDS as planned".
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IT Outsourcing: Shell says it has received full assurances over HP take-over of EDS
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Shell decided to opt for multiple suppliers when it signed $4bn-worth of outsourcing contracts
A painstaking attention to detail is the key to the recent $4bn (£2bn), five-year outsourcing contracts that Royal Dutch Shell has signed with three IT suppliers.
TheRegister.co.uk: Shell signs ‘Mother of all outsourcing deals’
TheRegister.co.uk: Shell signs ‘Mother of all outsourcing deals’
By John Oates
Published Tuesday 4th May 2004
Posted 5 May 04
In what the Indian press is calling “the Mother of all outsourcing deals”, Shell has signed up IBM and Wipro to offshore parts of its IT department. Indian papers claim the deal is worth more than $1bn, which would make it India’s biggest ever single contract win.
As first revealed here, Shell plans to cut between 1,900 and 2,800 jobs from its IT department. The cuts, between 20 per cent and 30 per cent of the total IT department, are likely to be mainly focused on high-cost locations such as the UK and US.
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