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Partners IBM

Headquarters: Armonk, NY

Employees: 329,000

Revenue: $91.4B

Company profile

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business.
IBM has the world's largest IT research organization, with more than 3,000 scientists and engineers working at eight labs in six countries.
Measured by revenue, IBM is the biggest provider of IT services ($46B), hardware ($31B) and financing ($2.6B), and second in software ($15B).
IBM clients include more than 90 percent of the communications, retail and electronic companies in the Fortune 500, and 675 Fortune 1000 companies. IBM also manages the majority of the world's banking customer data for the 100 top retail and corporate banks in the world.

Relationship with Unisys

Unisys currently has relationships with many different IBM business units and is an IBM Business Partner in many countries in North America, Europe and Asia. Cooperation between the two companies includes solution development and implementation, systems integration, outsourcing and network management. Unisys currently participates in the IBM Alliance program as a Regional Systems Integrator with global coverage, is a member of the Reseller, Consultant and Integrator programs, and offers insurance industry solutions at an advanced level under the ISV program.

Solutions

A key component of the IBM strategic alliance with Unisys is the partnership to deliver trusted, business-critical solutions into vertical markets. Through the combination of deep industry knowledge, experience and vision, the partnership offers a comprehensive set of strategy, development, integration, hardware, software and services--to help your business succeed. The partnership demands working closely with clients to identify and implement the right set of technology-enabled solutions for their complex environment, successfully transforming the way clients do business.

Joint solution offerings and services that IBM/Unisys provide to the marketplace are:

Technology

Unisys Flexible Components for Product & Policy Management solution offers the flexibility and scalability of a component-based J2EE solution, built for Service-Oriented Architecture, and for a multi-line insurer. The components are managed with 3D Blueprinting models that capture relevant business knowledge, so that the solution does not become obsolete as technology or business trends shift.

The solution is optimized for IBM Middleware such as WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ-Series and DB2 Universal Database, enabling the re-use of trusted best of breed infrastructure software and hardware, as well as complementary business applications such as ERP and CRM suites.