Unisys Delivers Vertical Industry Solutions Built on Unisys 3D-VE Methodology and IBM Software

LONDON, November 2, 2005 – Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced that it is teaming with IBM in several public sector procurements for the joint development and delivery of integrated eligibility solutions for state health and human services programs.  Also, Unisys will incorporate IBM software platforms and tools into Unisys-integrated business solutions for companies in the insurance industry, as well as identity access and management (IAM) solutions that help enterprises in a broad range of industries manage security for critical business information.

These new solutions are among the first developed under an expansion of the long-term relationship between IBM Software and Unisys. This includes a new global license agreement for Unisys to add the IBM Rational Software Development Platform to the foundation of the Unisys 3D Visible Enterprise (3D-VE) strategy, integrate IBM WebSphere business process modeling capabilities into Unisys 3D-VE solutions and employ IBM’s Tivoli software for identity management, access management and federated identity management for Service Oriented Architecture solutions.

Unisys 3D-VE strategy is designed to enable a client to see the links among business strategy, processes and IT requirements throughout the entire enterprise and gain unprecedented visibility into the impacts and costs of strategic decisions at all levels even before making them.

“Through its 3D-VE strategy, Unisys is among the first systems integrators to extend the full suite of IBM Rational, WebSphere and Tivoli platforms and tools to apply visual modeling to business processes,” said Daniel Sabbah, general manager of IBM Rational. “We’re excited to team with Unisys in delivering powerful solutions that address the specific needs of customers across a host of vertical industries.”

The expanded relationship with IBM Software builds upon Unisys newly announced plan to deliver solutions for secure business operations. To support this strategy, Unisys is aligning with an exclusive list of the world’s leading technology providers to deliver customer solutions that harness its partners’ expertise with the power of 3D-VE.

“We see tremendous opportunities to leverage the strong alignment and compatibility of the Unisys 3D-VE and IBM service-oriented architecture strategies to help companies achieve more flexible, agile, efficient and secure business and IT operations,” said Frederick Dillman, chief technology officer at Unisys. “Unisys and IBM share the same goal: helping companies gain enterprise-wide visibility to more closely align their present and future IT investments with their business processes.”

Key initiatives for Unisys combining 3D-VE and IBM software include the following:

• Health & Human Services (HHS) Solution. Developed with extensive input from health and human services practitioners, this solution can be deployed in a broad range of configurations to help organizations achieve greater IT visibility and business process alignment. The HHS Solution architecture consists of a comprehensive reference application, an application development environment and a component-based reference model.
• 3D-VE Blueprint for Insurance. This jointly developed solution covers all commonly used processes for product modeling and administration of insurance policies, particularly in the life and pension and property and casualty markets.  The solution consists of Unisys 3D-VE Blueprints covering requirements models at the business process and systems layers, along with executable code in the form of native J2EE components for deployment in IBM Rational and WebSphere environments. The IBM WebSphere platform allows insurance companies to deploy a flexible application architecture while retaining their mainframe and database infrastructure.
• Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solutions. Building upon the IBM Tivoli security product suite, Unisys delivers an industry-leading IAM integration methodology that helps customers apply technologies such as enterprise directory, meta-directory, single-sign-on and provisioning systems to efficiently and securely provide access to the organization’s digital resources. The joint IBM and Unisys methodology provides seamless integration for addressing IAM projects, decreased time-to-deployment, faster realization of benefits and the ability to integrate federated identity management solutions in customers’ IT environments.

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Contacts

Brian Daly, Unisys, 215-986-2214 brian.daly@unisys.com