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Affiliated Computer Services (ACS)


Self Description

December 2006: "In 1988, ACS founder and Chairman of the Board Darwin Deason recruited a group of extraordinary information technology professionals and instilled a passion and energy we call hustle. We believe the impossible is possible, and that giving up is not an option.

We're Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS), a premier provider of diversified business process outsourcing (BPO) and information technology outsourcing (ITO) solutions to commercial and government clients worldwide. Based in Dallas, ACS is a FORTUNE 500 company of more than 58,000 people supporting client operations reaching nearly 100 countries.

It would be hard for you to go through a day without encountering the products or services of our many clients in communications, education, energy, financial services, government, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, retail, travel, and transportation.

We provide them with superior BPO services including administration; finance and accounting; human resources; payment services; sales, marketing, and customer care; and supply chain management. Our world-class ITO offerings include applications solutions; data center management; disaster recovery; end-user computing; network management; security services; storage solutions; technology review, assessment, and planning; and transition services for human resources."

http://www.acs-inc.com/about/index.html

Third-Party Descriptions

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Lynn R. Blodgett Person Dec 28, 2008
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Founded/Co-Founded by Darwin Deason Person Dec 11, 2006

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Nov 05, 2009 Shudder speed: Rise of the stealthy traffic camera fuels drivers' disgust

QUOTE: People get worked up. Put these cyborgs [traffic cameras] on a ballot, and the voters beat them to the pavement.

 Washington Post
Dec 26, 2008 Bits: Naughtiest and Nicest C.E.O.’s

QUOTE: Glassdoor.com, a site that lets employees anonymously review their employers and share salary information, is out with a list of the naughtiest and nicest chief executives of 2008, based on those reviews.

 New York Times
Dec 10, 2006 Poisoned by Scandal, Craving an Antidote

QUOTE: hundreds of executives are anxiously discussing how hard they should look for evidence of options backdating or other accounting problems. At companies where far lesser frauds or malfeasance emerge, executives face an even more ticklish quandary: Should they reveal everything, and then confront the hazards of bad publicity and outside investigations, or clean things up and hope that the problems will evaporate unnoticed? Rent-Way’s own journey, which came to a head last month, offers a chilling lesson: Even the most virtuous decisions have unforeseen, often damaging, consequences, and full disclosure may create as many problems as it solves.

 New York Times