A GEMS of an acquisition

EDS today announced an agreement to acquire Global Enterprise Management Solutions, LP. Based in Irving, Texas, GEMS is a provider of SAP enterprise management and customer relationship management solutions. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close before 2007.

GEMS is a certified SAP value-added partner serving clients primarily in the IT services, assembly/manufacturing, logistics and transportation industries. GEMS offers IT solution development, implementation consulting and solution reselling services for clients looking to deploy SAP.

Key elements of the acquisition include GEMS’ mService Solutions and Accelerated Data Migration tools, which are prepackaged mySAP All-in-One software solutions that can be deployed quickly at client sites. GEMS will also bring to EDS an additional employee base technically skilled at NetWeaver, as well as other business application competencies including ERP, CRM, PLM and SCM.

As part of the acquisition, approximately 150 GEMS employees in Dallas, India and Germany will transition to EDS, including development staff, SAP consultants and technology architects.

EDS is a global technology services company that stakes a claim as having “founded the information technology outsourcing industry more than forty years ago.” Today, EDS delivers a portfolio of information technology and business process outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries.