The target company, which is not related to Dallas, Texas-based outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services Inc, is headquartered in London with offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Paris, and Pune. Including temporary contractors, it has more than 200 employees.
ACS focuses on providing application integration and setup services as well as consulting around virtualization, security, and Microsoft products, largely to clients in the financial services sector. The company did not disclose revenue or profitability, but Dell said it would not make a material impact on its results going forward.
Dell made $4.9bn, 9% of its $55.9bn revenue, in its most recent fiscal year ending February 3, 2006 from what it calls enhanced services, which represented growth of 33% year-on-year. The company secured a number of high-profile desktop management deals in 2004 to 2005 with clients including Honeywell and UBS, but suffered a blow in February 2006 when Philips, one of its flagship services clients, canceled a $700m contract prematurely.
