Unisys Joins Forces with Oracle in Global Alliance for Enterprise ModernizationUsing Unisys 3D-VE approach as guiding principle, initiative aims to yield cost control and risk management advantages to enterprises modernizing IT and business assetsBLUE BELL, Pa., February 6, 2007 – Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced that it is advancing its offerings to help clients modernize their enterprise IT assets through a far-reaching expansion of its global alliance and joint programs with Oracle. This is the first joint initiative between the two companies focused specifically on standards-based modernization solutions.
The alliance and related programs focus on addressing clients’ most pressing enterprise business requirements with combinations of business process, application and infrastructure modernization services and products that leverage key industry standards.
The alliance benefits both new and existing clients by capitalizing on key elements from both Unisys and Oracle solution portfolios:
This alliance expansion also advances the Unisys strategy to help clients modernize enterprise environments, complementing the recent addition of modernization enhancements to the Unisys Open and Secure Integrated Solutions (OASIS) suite of open source software.
“This initiative demonstrates the value of Unisys singular approach in leveraging alliances, services capabilities and technology expertise to deliver substantive value to clients,” said Ali Shadman, vice president and general manager, Open Source Solutions, Systems and Technology, Unisys. “Through expanded teaming with Oracle, Unisys can offer enterprises facing the challenge of aligning their IT environments with strategic business goals the distinct advantage of modernizing their IT assets while protecting their long-term investments in critical applications.”
Unisys and Oracle are building upon Unisys capabilities as one of the world’s leading solutions integrators and outsourcing services providers to deliver a modernization portfolio focused on key scenarios covering every aspect of an enterprise-class modernization strategy. These scenarios can encompass any combination of: knowledge mining, re-factoring, translation, re-hosting, wrapping, replacement and orchestration, enabling clients to achieve benefits such as:
”We are very pleased to be working with Unisys in this Enterprise Modernization initiative,” said John Gawkowski, vice president of Platform Solutions at Oracle. “The combination of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database and Oracle Enterprise Manager provides the high-quality-of-service software environment needed when modernizing enterprise-scale applications through the Unisys 3D-VE approach. Combining this environment with Oracle Applications for application replacement and Unisys modernization delivery provides the complete modernization solution for enterprise-class customers.”
The Unisys 3D-VE Approach: You Can’t Modernize What You Can’t See
Applying the Unisys 3D-VE approach, Unisys delivers greater value compared to either green-field development or other traditional approaches to IT asset modernization by revealing the connections among the four dimensions of the enterprise. Creating such connections can dramatically reduce the costs of initial modernization as well as the overall maintenance costs of modernized applications. Simultaneously, the visibility and traceability among business rules, processes, flows and actual application artifacts – such as code – can significantly mitigate the risks imposed by factors such as dwindling pools of programming skills required to maintain legacy applications.
The Unisys modernization program guided by the 3D-VE approach benefits from Unisys membership in The Oracle Modernization Alliance, a special initiative within Oracle PartnerNetwork that brings together an ecosystem of partners and vendors to provide a central location for all necessary resources, tools and technologies aimed at helping customers modernize legacy systems and take advantage of new, open architectures that increase business agility and lower total cost of ownership. For more information about Oracle modernization, visit oracle.com/goto/modernization.
About Unisys Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. We provide consulting, systems integration, outsourcing and infrastructure services, combined with powerful enterprise server technology. We specialize in helping clients use information to create efficient, secure business operations that allow them to achieve their business goals. Our consultants and industry experts work with clients to understand their business challenges and create greater visibility into critical linkages throughout their operations. For more information, visit www.unisys.com.
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