GE Capital Information Technology Solutions or GE ITS was the

information technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of Data (computing), data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information te ...

services subsidiary of the

General Electric General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable en ...

corporation. It was initially formed to provide information technology services to GE subsidiaries. However, it also solicited and provided services to other companies. Services offered ranged from

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support and maintenance to 24x7 I.T. operations support. It has supported companies such as Cisco Systems, Inc, IBM Global Services, GE Financial Assurance (Now Genworth Financial), and Sybase, Inc. GE ITS was acquired by

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in late 2004 and has now been absorbed into the I.T. solutions company called

CompuCom CompuCom Systems Inc. is a technology managed services provider and product reseller headquartered in Indian Land, South Carolina, a southern suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Variant Equity Advisors. In b ...

. This acquisition has resulted in a much larger customer base, so many of the personalized services previously provided by GE ITS have been lost or replaced by CompuCom's "one size fits all" business model. GECITS also had a representation within Australia from the purchase of Ferntree Computer Corporation, a national computer company based in Melbourne. GECITS in Australia was eventually sold to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)

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