Unisys Collaborates with CIOs to Identify and Solve Top Seven Barriers to IT ModernizationUnisys enhances application services portfolio to reduce the costs, risks, and time factors involved in modernizing IT environments to better support changing business needs
BLUE BELL, Pa., April 23, 2008 – Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) announced today that as a result of the conclusion of a year-long study with 50 enterprise CIOs, the company has bolstered two key offerings in its Application Services portfolio for organizations seeking to modernize their information technology (IT) infrastructures.
According to the findings, there are seven key obstacles commonly faced by organizations when attempting to modernize legacy IT systems and applications using current leading-edge tools. Unisys has released a white paper discussing the barriers and strategies for overcoming each barrier through their Web site.
To overcome these barriers, Unisys has tapped its deep services experience supporting, managing and renovating client’s application portfolios. These services are aimed at helping Unisys clients modernize their IT processes, applications and technology while minimizing operational risk and reducing total cost of application ownership by between 10% and 40%. Successful IT modernization enables organizations to accelerate business innovation and realize the full business potential of their IT investments.
The Seven Barriers
Despite these barriers, organizations also recognize the business imperative of proactively upgrading and evolving their IT infrastructure and applications to take advantage of the speed, flexibility, and cost advantages of modern technologies such as open source software and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Unisys portfolio of Application Services provides organizations with a full lifecycle of services and support to ensure a successful IT modernization project. These services include application development, enhancement, transformation, migration, hosting, support, maintenance, and upfront advisory services. Global delivery and Software as a Service (SaaS) are options client’s can select to address particular cost, skills and operational challenges.
Unisys Application Portfolio Management and Knowledge-based Management Services
The Unisys APM service helps organizations build a common understanding of their current software assets, including the value of these assets to the organization, areas of risk, and business and technology interdependencies. By helping organizations tie their software applications to business needs, the service enables organizations to determine which applications are core to the business, where overlaps exist, and what is obsolete. This information is needed to help them make sound, business-driven decisions about how modernization should be approached for a given organization. It alleviates many of the financial and technical fears associated with modernization, and enables Unisys to predict and endorse the reduction in application TCO.
After APM, Unisys helps clients to begin the actual modernization process. The KBM service helps organizations expose and identify ways, at a micro level, to transform existing functionality for reuse during modernization projects. The Unisys KBM service minimizes the business risk associated with a complete IT overall at once by allowing organizations to focus initial efforts on a subset of applications based on internal priorities. For example, KBM can be applied to high-value, core business applications or those with the highest maintenance cost or software developed using outdated technology.
The APM and KBM services are based on the company’s considerable experience successfully assisting Financial Services, Public Sector, Communications and Transportation customers.
“The Application Services we’re highlighting today are a natural extension of the experience and success we’ve had with our enterprise clients,” said Cem Tanyel, vice president, Application Services, Unisys. “After listening to our customers define what they believe are the common barriers to modernization, and then pulling from our proven best practices, we feel that our application modernization suite creates a new direction where the relationships between organizational strategy, operations, processes, and applications are embedded and traceable.”
Unisys Application Modernization Services enables organizations to:
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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