Divestiture of Government IT Professional Services Business (Notes)

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]

Divestiture of Government IT Professional Services Business

Divestitures

IT Professional Services Business

On March 31, 2014, the Company completed the sale of the ITPS business of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Avaya Government Solutions Inc. for an initial sales price of $98 million, net of $2 million in costs to sell and subject to working capital and other customary price adjustments. Subsequent to the sale, positive working capital adjustments of $3 million were identified, and the final sales price of the ITPS business as adjusted is $101 million. The ITPS business, which was part of the Avaya Global Services segment, provides specialized information technology services exclusively to government customers in the U.S. The Company retained its Federal product sales and services teams and continues to sell unified communications, collaboration, contact center and networking products and services to Federal, state and municipal governments under the name Avaya Government Solutions.

Discontinued Operations

Summarized financial information relating to the Company's discontinued operations are as follows:

In millions	Three months ended March 31, 2014			Six months ended March 31, 2014
SERVICES REVENUE	$	26		$	53
OPERATING INCOME FROM DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS	$	3		$	7
Gain on sale of ITPS business	49			49
INCOME FROM DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS BEFORE INCOME TAXES	52			$	56
Provision for income taxes from discontinued operations	(25		)	(26		)
INCOME FROM DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS, NET OF INCOME TAXES	$	27		$	30

Technology Business Unit

On July 31, 2014, the Company completed the sale of assets and liabilities associated with the Technology Business Unit ("TBU") for a final sales price of $26 million. TBU, which was acquired as part of the Radvision acquisition, is a software development business that licenses technologies to developers for their use and integration into their own products and includes protocol stacks, client framework solutions, and network testing and monitoring tools.