HP Enterprise Services, LLC was the enterprise IT services and outsourcing arm of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Its lineage traces to Electronic Data Systems (EDS), founded in 1962 by Ross Perot and based in Plano, Texas. HP acquired EDS in 2008 for roughly $13.9 billion and rebranded it "HP Enterprise Services" in 2009. The business became part of HPE on the November 1, 2015 HP Inc./HPE split. On April 1, 2017, HPE spun the Enterprise Services segment off and merged it with Computer Sciences Corporation to form DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC); AP reported the division had roughly 100,000 employees and contributed more than a third of HPE revenue pre-spin. The legal entity did not disappear: as "Enterprise Services LLC" it was spun out of DXC in 2018 and merged with Vencore and KeyPoint to form Perspecta Inc., which Peraton acquired in 2021.
Operations. It sold technology outsourcing and business services to enterprises and governments: IT infrastructure outsourcing, application services, business process outsourcing, data-center and mainframe hosting, workplace/mobility, cloud, and security, with a large U.S. public-sector practice. HP's FY2013 disclosures put its IT services and BPO revenue around $32 billion, with application services and BPO at roughly $8.8 billion.
Litigation posture. This is an operating company on defense, not an NPE. Case data shows one defendant appearance and one plaintiff appearance — and that single "plaintiff" entry is a defensive PTAB petition, not an infringement assertion. It never asserted its own patents in the tracked data.
Notable cases. In Realtime Data LLC d/b/a IXO v. SAP America, Inc. et al., No. 6:15-cv-00469 (E.D. Tex., filed May 2015), NPE Realtime Data sued HP Enterprise Services, Hewlett-Packard Company, SAP and Sybase over data-compression/accelerated-storage patents (e.g., U.S. 6,597,812; 7,415,530). The case was consolidated into 6:15-cv-463 and ultimately dismissed. HP Enterprise Services joined the April 1, 2016 petition SAP America, Inc. et al. v. Realtime Data LLC (IPR2016-00783), challenging the '812 patent. Realtime Data is classified as a patent assertion entity by Unified Patents and Stanford's NPE database; the suits clustered in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas.
Note: the entity's current ownership is now Peraton; employment/revenue figures reflect the business before its 2017 spin-off and are not independently verifiable today.